Nicky Reardon

Um, and then we, I think we're 400 followers away, 64 followers away on Spotify from hitting 10 K. So please, please, please be a homie. You can listen to this on your car, right to work. We can listen to the pod at the gym. Everything is posted here is posted there. Um, and it would really, really help me out.

Um, and then we, I think we're 400 followers away, 64 followers away on Spotify from hitting 10 K. So please, please, please be a homie. You can listen to this on your car, right to work. We can listen to the pod at the gym. Everything is posted here is posted there. Um, and it would really, really help me out.

So with that, let's dive in to the cult of wellness and also just this toxic body standards making a comeback. Big disclaimer I want to talk about with this video is that my goal of this is not to be commenting on people's bodies or telling anybody how they should look or shouldn't look or what they should do or shouldn't do. But in order to accurately talk about this topic and the way it has

So with that, let's dive in to the cult of wellness and also just this toxic body standards making a comeback. Big disclaimer I want to talk about with this video is that my goal of this is not to be commenting on people's bodies or telling anybody how they should look or shouldn't look or what they should do or shouldn't do. But in order to accurately talk about this topic and the way it has

infiltrated the media we consume and the content we consume and all these things, I'm going to reference some people as examples. My intention with this is not to belittle them or make commentary about their bodies or what their weight loss journey or fitness journey is, but it is to kind of show why I think this has become a mainstream thing.

infiltrated the media we consume and the content we consume and all these things, I'm going to reference some people as examples. My intention with this is not to belittle them or make commentary about their bodies or what their weight loss journey or fitness journey is, but it is to kind of show why I think this has become a mainstream thing.

This regression of body standards has become popular because there are popular people doing or exemplifying these things in this way. And this is also very much, like, I think an opinion episode. Like, I'm going to rant. I'm going to talk my shit a little. But, like, it's really me. It is Nikki's opinion. It is what I see, how these things make me feel.

This regression of body standards has become popular because there are popular people doing or exemplifying these things in this way. And this is also very much, like, I think an opinion episode. Like, I'm going to rant. I'm going to talk my shit a little. But, like, it's really me. It is Nikki's opinion. It is what I see, how these things make me feel.

And other people might not feel that way, and that is totally okay. Again, my goal is not to, like, tear anybody down, but hopefully to, like, challenge the way you think about this weird, again, like, cult of wellness and cult of glow-up culture. So I think in order to do this first is we really need to talk about this problem of the idea of like skinny and healthy being synonymous.

And other people might not feel that way, and that is totally okay. Again, my goal is not to, like, tear anybody down, but hopefully to, like, challenge the way you think about this weird, again, like, cult of wellness and cult of glow-up culture. So I think in order to do this first is we really need to talk about this problem of the idea of like skinny and healthy being synonymous.

It's a very interesting thing that has happened when health really has nothing to do with thinness. So what does it actually mean to be healthy? The World Health Organization defines health as, quote, health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely an absence of disease or infirmity. Two interesting things about this.

It's a very interesting thing that has happened when health really has nothing to do with thinness. So what does it actually mean to be healthy? The World Health Organization defines health as, quote, health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely an absence of disease or infirmity. Two interesting things about this.

One, I think it's very fascinating that in this whole, you know, discussion about wellness and hot girl blank, whatever, like, it is so much only about the physical, right?

One, I think it's very fascinating that in this whole, you know, discussion about wellness and hot girl blank, whatever, like, it is so much only about the physical, right?

It is about the way you look and being hot and feeling hot and making other people think you're hot so they want you and they desire you and health and really if we want to think what wellness is as a concept is so much more than that. You can be skinny and depressed. You can be...

It is about the way you look and being hot and feeling hot and making other people think you're hot so they want you and they desire you and health and really if we want to think what wellness is as a concept is so much more than that. You can be skinny and depressed. You can be...

curvy and happy like there's like there's no a it's not a or b and that is i think a really really scary slippery slope that we have fallen into with this also with this is also like something i'm like talk about this discussion of like bmi and how we like measure this concept of health as a thing. So BMI body mass index is literally a formula.

curvy and happy like there's like there's no a it's not a or b and that is i think a really really scary slippery slope that we have fallen into with this also with this is also like something i'm like talk about this discussion of like bmi and how we like measure this concept of health as a thing. So BMI body mass index is literally a formula.

It's just like weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared. I think that's it. Like that is literally what the formula is. Um, and then you get a number and they've said like, this is what healthy is and this is what obese is, blah, blah, blah. And what's fascinating is skinny does not mean healthy. You can be extremely skinny and extremely unhealthy.

It's just like weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared. I think that's it. Like that is literally what the formula is. Um, and then you get a number and they've said like, this is what healthy is and this is what obese is, blah, blah, blah. And what's fascinating is skinny does not mean healthy. You can be extremely skinny and extremely unhealthy.