ableism Tag

Wellness is in all places – however the industry might be guilty of harnessing our fears around chronic illness and disability to sell us products I once made my very own celery juice each day for five weeks because someone online said it might improve my chronic fatigue. I finished once I realised the self-declared expert got his ‘medical insight’ from ghosts. As a disabled, chronically ailing woman, I even have invested in my justifiable share of failed wellness products. I'm, unsurprisingly, still sick, with organs stuck together by endometriosis, and infrequently find myself wedded to my bed with fatigue. Despite this, I’m still liable to the wellness trends that take over my...