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Why wellness culture can amplify class isolation

My friends post about their workout routines and green smoothies while I'm exhausted from working double shifts and eating gas station food and I feel like I'm living in a completely different world.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Social media wellness narratives highlight economic disparities in health access, creating alienation disguised as lifestyle difference.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Body in poverty — health as class condition?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.