Wellness culture shifted from collective self-knowledge to individual self-worth

Evidence

None of this, however, is the kind of influence most high-profile wellness influencers have chosen to wield. Instead, it’s more promises about the perfect life that awaits if we attain our perfected body double. Our Bodies, Ourselves, the health bible my mother regularly consulted, has been supplanted with an all-pervasive ethos of “my body, my worth”— the corollary of which seems to be “your body, your problem.” — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 591

Categorization

• XREF: ‘Your body, your problem’ — echoes the book’s central ‘you can’t police your body double’ theme and the hyper-individualism of the wellness-right convergence. — connects to: Metrics become socially interpreted measures of personal self-worth — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 217; Corporate wellness programs surveil workers’ bodies under the guise of well-being. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 235; Individual-focused holistic education hides culture’s shaping role — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 254