Why the wellness industry is elitist | Alana Van Der Sluys | TEDxRutgersCamden

Why have we simply accepted that the only image of wellness looks like a thin white woman in her 20s with a perfect ponytail and expensive yoga pants? In this provocative talk, Alana Van Der Sluys not only asks you to question why we have passively accepted this singular, elitist version of health as the gold standard for all; while also detailing practical ways we can dismantle this limiting view of health and wellness and replace it with one that’s multifaceted and inclusive on a global scale.
Alana Van Der Sluys is a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, book author, and professional speaker. She is the founder of Freedom with Food and Fitness, where she empowers women to pursue health-- without obsession, restriction, or diets-- through intuitive eating and mindset coaching. She took her seven year battle with three undiagnosed eating disorders and turned it into a thriving business where she supports women along the path she has already forged in her own recovery. Her book, Freedom with Food and Fitness: How Intuitive Eating is the Key to Becoming Your Happiest Self, will be published and available everywhere books are sold in 2023. For more information or to work with Alana, visit www.freedomwithfoodandfitness.com or say hi to her on Instagram @FreedomwithFoodandFitness. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@courtneyleo478]

I make less than 25,000 a year and it never occurred to me that I could go to a food pantry. Thank you, I feel smarter after watching this.

[@freedomwithfoodandfitness]

Sometimes even the smartest people need help seeing the obvious answers. I've been guilty of that many times! I'm glad this helped 💙

[@jstone247]

Yes. I agree. The wellness industry, which had evolved from the New Age movement of the 1990s.
Open to the pampered, entitled wealthy.
A whole industry of commodities has been built on the narcissistic , individualistic ethos of personal choice.
I have heard it been explained as your present life on Earth is the result of a conscious choice before birth.
So a dying child in Somalia, or Sudan, or the people of disease ridden people of flood bound Asia deserve their fate, because of the Karmic choice they made.
The New Age movement has morphed into an alliance with the right-wing conspiritorist anti-vax, anti science, and anti academic communities.
The wellness industry is built on consumerism, greed and vain self obsession.

[@kristinahaviland5594]

So so so proud of you love…you are changing peoples lives❤️❤️❤️

[@freedomwithfoodandfitness]

Love you 💙

[@mariaolsen50after50]

Important points! You are so right!

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Thank you!

[@horwoodg]

Wow. Amazing talk.

[@sandyglover736]

You nailed it! 💯

[@armandocastillorodriguez1731]

Esta muy padre su blusa señorita

[@alanavandersluys5202]

gracias!

[@courtneyleo478]

I can’t afford scrunchies either.

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🎉

[@haphanngoc7019]

We are going to have a baby 😂

[@Carl-Ernst-Otto-Kunze]

Piyrest of Philadelphia Cream Cheese..