Worthy Wednesdays: Wealth

Issue #44 - What happens when wellness becomes another form of assimilation.

💡 Wellness has been colonised and in the process, it's erased the healing wisdom of entire cultures.

The modern wellness industry takes ancient practices, strips them of cultural context, and repackages them for consumption. Yoga becomes fitness. Meditation becomes productivity. Indigenous plant medicine becomes "biohacking."

Meanwhile, the healing traditions that don't translate into $30 classes or trending hashtags get dismissed as "alternative," "primitive," or "unscientific."

Cultural wellbeing asks: What if the path to your wholeness isn't found in someone else's tradition, but in reclaiming the wisdom that flows through your own?
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🔄 What if your "wellness struggles" are actually signs of cultural disconnection - your system rejecting practices that weren't designed for your reality?

You've tried the morning routines, the meditation apps, the gratitude journals, but something feels off. Performative. Like you're wearing clothes that don't fit.

That's because wellbeing isn't one-size-fits-all. The practices that restore a tech executive in Silicon Valley might drain a single parent in Indonesia. What heals someone with generational wealth might not serve someone with generational trauma.

True cultural wellbeing honours your specific context: your nervous system inheritance, your economic reality, your family patterns, your spiritual framework, your relationship to time and space.

When you stop performing someone else's version of healthy and start honouring your own, restoration becomes possible.

🪞 Ask Yourself:

• What healing practices from your family or culture have you dismissed as "backward" or "unscientific"?
• Where are you performing wellness instead of practicing it - trying to fit into someone else's template of "healthy"?
• What would restoration look like if it honoured your actual life and circumstances instead of an idealised version?

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🚶‍♀️Step Forward

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🛠️ TOOL: Cultural Wellbeing Reclamation

Map your authentic restoration practices across these domains:

Inherited Wisdom: What healing practices did your previous generations use that you've abandoned or forgotten?

Economic Reality: What forms of wellbeing are actually accessible given your resources, not the ones that require expensive equipment or time you don't have?

Nervous System Truth: What actually calms your specific system, not what's supposed to work, but what does work?

Community Context: What restoration happens through connection with your people rather than individual practice?

Spiritual Framework: What practices align with your actual beliefs rather than trendy spiritual concepts?

Choose one authentic practice to reclaim this week.

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🌱 Small Challenge

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⚡ This Week’s Wellbeing Move: Practice Cultural Restoration

Replace one "should" wellness practice with something that actually serves your specific context:

• Instead of forced morning routines, honour your natural energy rhythms
• Instead of expensive supplements, reconnect with healing foods from your cultural tradition
• Instead of individualistic meditation, try collective practices like singing, dancing, or storytelling
• Instead of productivity-based self-care, try restoration that honours your nervous system's actual needs

Notice how different authentic cultural wellbeing feels from performed wellness.

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​WISDOM WHISPERER​
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Why this whisper? Because some of the most powerful healing happens through the body's own wisdom, not through purchased programs or trending practices. Sometimes cultural wellbeing is as simple as honouring what your lineage always knew about restoration.

Your body carries healing knowledge that no wellness industry can replicate or improve upon.