Amanda, thank you for giving this so much space. I have fallen victim to this and now feel like I can see it for what it is. Every discomfort is branded as dysfunction. With a product waiting on the other side. Pathology in perpetuity.
I want off the hamster wheel! Maybe we should all just get comfortable with being uncomfortable for a little while?
THIS ➡️ "When something is that profitable, it stops mattering whether the person selling it actually knows what they're talking about."
Unfortunately, Substack is flooded with self-help quotes and essays. I get it. Everyone wants to help and seem like they've got it figured out, but it's too much. It's cringe actually, but we can't say that if we want to be part of polite society. 🙃😆
Excellent article and what a horrible story at the beginning. It's an interesting topic all on its own. Do we share when someone has passed? How do we do it? How do these updates in FB sit side by side with general scrolling?
Excellent piece…I’m so glad Alison linked you in her post today. The self-help movement in so many ways has become another way to reject oneself. And Goop, a one-stop shop for people hell-bent on perfecting themselves, has helped sell Americans on the idea that “wellness” means buying things until you feel better.
Amanda, thank you for giving this so much space. I have fallen victim to this and now feel like I can see it for what it is. Every discomfort is branded as dysfunction. With a product waiting on the other side. Pathology in perpetuity.
I want off the hamster wheel! Maybe we should all just get comfortable with being uncomfortable for a little while?
Thanks for reading!!
Yes yes yes!!! You’re preaching my preach!
THIS ➡️ "When something is that profitable, it stops mattering whether the person selling it actually knows what they're talking about."
Unfortunately, Substack is flooded with self-help quotes and essays. I get it. Everyone wants to help and seem like they've got it figured out, but it's too much. It's cringe actually, but we can't say that if we want to be part of polite society. 🙃😆
Excellent article and what a horrible story at the beginning. It's an interesting topic all on its own. Do we share when someone has passed? How do we do it? How do these updates in FB sit side by side with general scrolling?
Excellent piece…I’m so glad Alison linked you in her post today. The self-help movement in so many ways has become another way to reject oneself. And Goop, a one-stop shop for people hell-bent on perfecting themselves, has helped sell Americans on the idea that “wellness” means buying things until you feel better.
I needed therapy, and I still do.
I uses to refuse to acknowledge that because my experience with psychologists where I'm at has always been terrible. No one knew how to talk.
So I decided to listen to those coaches and creators who already appealed to me.
It did good. I felt seen.
But where it all went to shit was my drowning in their content, hoarding them, picking myself apart, but not changing a single action.
A good therapist would have made me see that.
Thanks for this, Amanda.