Hey @livlovesbeingalive we could do an analysis of the 🚩 you’ve sprinkled into your comment, but maybe we can save that for another day. Anywho, as you can see, there are many bubbles that comprise wellness culture - and for you, I have briefly extrapolated one facet of conspirituality to show you how it’s connected to systems of oppression. To answer the statement you punctuated with a question mark: “My confusion stems from what evidenced based research was used to generate these figures and connections?” If you refer to the original post, there are chunks of text at the bottom of each slide. Those chunks of text at the bottom, where it’s a person’s name (year)... that’s called a citation. A citation is a reference to a the source of information. That is how I showed evidence of the research, by citing my source to indicate these ideas are not just coming from the depths of my ass. I generated these figures and connections by reading the information from the text and transforming the written content into an aesthetically pleasing visual representation. I do not wish to invalidate your feelings, albeit your attempt to invalidate my post. Regardless, your feelings are valid and I understand the information presented is in direct opposition to your feelings. That must be so difficult for you. Might I suggest you refer to this journal article https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8721.00182 “Accepting Threatening Information: Self–Affirmation and the Reduction of Defensive Biases”, to reflect on why those feelings are coming up for you in this way. You could also read “McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality” by Ronald E. Purser to better understand the connection between wellness culture - how it is stolen, decontextualized, and repackaged indigenous / cultural knowledge and commodified. Lastly, might I suggest reading “Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia” by Sabrina Strings for more information on how anti-blackness has informed systems of oppression. Please direct any further questioning elsewhere. Good luck on your RD exam 🖤