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Hello and welcome to Episode 3 of Season 2! Thank you for being here. On today's episode, we discuss Wellness, a word that has come to encompass our latest cultural obsession - how to best take care of ourselves. In the past, we would have looked at wellness as self-help, but as millennial values have taken over, we’ve moved away from a focus on fixing our supposed ‘flaws’ and leaned into the ‘self-care’ narrative. If self-help is about fixing something, self-care thinks you’re already great, and it’s a booming $10 billion industry.  But is wellness and self-care a bit of a con? And if you need to practice self-care to be healthy and well, what happens to those who can’t access it? And how can community care and a focus on intersectionality orient our health and wellness conversations in a more productive way? Feel Good FourOpenly gay Claudia Lopex elected first female mayor of Colombia’s capital These hospitals dress up NICU babies in Halloween costumes, and the photos are too cuteCouple has second chance at love, tying the knot 60 years after their first engagementSeagrass nursery in central Queensland could offset carbon emissoins Wellness as self-helpSome of the articles we read...Smash the wellness industry Our best bet against burnout is self-care, just not the type you thinkWhy wellness is the Millennial self-helpThe millennial obsession with self-care3 things you should know about intersectionality and self-care