The "Wellness" Rebrand

Should I Delete That?

Feb 03, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 161

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Episode description

The 2010s is a time we have come to think of as the ‘wellness’ rebrand. The era in which we declared that we wanted to be ‘strong not skinny’ and that we discarded what we now thought of as ‘fad’ diets and traded them in for consistent ‘healthy’ living. Skin and bones were out, toned arms, visible abs and curves in all the right places were in.

Today we’re investigating if by replacing thinness as the thing to which we should aspire to with “healthy”, many of us fell into a false sense of healing, not realising how unhealthy our new and ‘healthy’ habits really were….

Thanks so much to our amazing guests who feature on this episode: Alice Liveing, Melissa Hemsley and Tally Rye

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Should I Delete That is produced by Faye Lawrence