The Problems with Wellness 4 Its a Slippery Slope to Rigid Thinking. EP: 591
12/03/21 • 12 min
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Consuming wellness content is kinda like that board game for kids Chutes and Ladders. It starts off like a ladder Take these steps to get your health to a better place. It’s cool, you’re learning things, getting ideas, trying them out in your own life, hopefully enjoying some tangible evidence of feeling better.
But you can also be moseying along and then boom, fall down a chute into some pretty hairy spaces. For example, falling pray to conspiracy thinking. Today I look at why that is and how you can keep your wits about you.
More resources:
Maintenance Phase, "The Wellness to QAnon Pipeline"
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Consuming wellness content is kinda like that board game for kids Chutes and Ladders. It starts off like a ladder Take these steps to get your health to a better place. It’s cool, you’re learning things, getting ideas, trying them out in your own life, hopefully enjoying some tangible evidence of feeling better.
But you can also be moseying along and then boom, fall down a chute into some pretty hairy spaces. For example, falling pray to conspiracy thinking. Today I look at why that is and how you can keep your wits about you.
More resources:
Maintenance Phase, "The Wellness to QAnon Pipeline"
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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