Rina Raphael

Or even if you think about, let's say, communal rights.

If you don't have an organized, let's say, community and you have something like a death in the family.

your gym isn't going to organize the funeral and necessarily be there for you.

In some instances, there are rare cases of that, but it's really sort of not the norm.

So that's the thing.

I think sometimes we need to figure out how to actually replicate what we have given up because we haven't really found that substitute yet.

The flip side of optimism is gullibility, which is why a lot of people who are very into wellness can sometimes fall for things that just have no evidence behind them.

Yeah.

And I think that's what we mean when we say that like belief is such a huge part of

of the wellness industry.

It's also just so part and parcel of America.

Like we happen to be a highly optimistic and consumerist nation.

And the flip side of optimism is gullibility, which is why a lot of people who are very into wellness can sometimes fall for things that just have no evidence behind them.

I actually wrote a piece for the New York Times about this.

So now you have things like Ramadan bootcamp.

You have like Catholic meditation apps.

And basically because they're seeing that people want to meld their wellness with their spiritual practice.

And by the way, I will say that religion is always sort of adapting to people's needs.

So this is just the most current iteration of organized religion saying,

okay, this is what people are interested in.