The myth of wellness is a lie. And until we learn to confront and dismantle its toxic systems, we can't ever be well.
Better, stronger, healthier, whole--the wellness industry promises us that with enough intention, investment, and positive thinking, we'll unlock our best selves and find meaning and purpose in a chaotic and confusing world.
The problem? It's a lie.
The industry soars upwards of $650 billion a year, but we're still isolated, insecure, and inequitable. "Wellness" isn't making us well; it's making us worse.
It diverts our attention and holds us back from asking the questions that do help us heal: Who gets to be well in America? Who's harmed--and who's left out? And what's the real-life cost of our obsession with self-improvement?
To be truly well, we don't need juice fasts or yoga fads. We need to detox from a culture rooted in perfectionism, white supremacy, and individualism--and move toward a model that embodies mutual responsibility and extends beyond self-help to collective care.
In American Detox, organizer, yoga activist, wellness disruptor, and CTZNWELL founder Kerri Kelly sounds the wake-up call. It's time to commit to the radical work of unlearning the toxic messages we've been fed--to resist, disrupt, and dream better futures of what wellness really means.
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What does it mean to be truly well? #LovePeriod host @RevJacquiLewis speaks with Kerri Kelly (@kkellyyoga) author of “American Detox” and founder of @CTZNWELL about what it means to cultivate true wellness and belonging in an age of instant gratification. https://t.co/yuWp4c0JdE
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"American Detox is not only a wake-up call but a call to remember that if some of us aren't well, none of us are well."
--MICHELLE C. JOHNSON, author of Finding Refuge
A magnificent gem of a book that anyone who cares about healing, wellness, health care, justice, democracy, anti-racism, equality, and inner or outer peace must read."
--LISSA RANKIN, MD, New York Times best-selling author of Mind Over Medicine
"Urgent and unflinching."
--NICOLE CARDOZA, founder of Reclamation Ventures, author, and magician
"This book is a powerhouse."
--ASHLEY JUDD, American actress and political activist
"A brilliant call for the reimagining of what it means to be well in our world."
--TARA BRACH, author of Trusting the Gold
"American Detox [reminds] us that we cannot purchase our way into well-being. It is built of the materials of interconnectedness and belonging, and without them we can't manifest the highest form of wellness which is humanity's wholeness."
--SONYA RENEE TAYLOR, author of the New York Times best seller, The Body Is Not an Apology
"Kerri Kelly is radically committed to our well-being by teaching us how to 'be well'--within ourselves and with one another."
--LAYLA F. SAAD, New York Times best-selling author of Me and White Supremacy
"American Detox is a blueprint for collective wellness, from an activist and healer who walks the walk with integrity, grace, and a revolutionary love."
--VALARIE KAUR, Sikh activist and best-selling author of See No Stranger
"This book offers the reframe that is needed in a culture desperately seeking wellness and perfection while being bankrupt of the remembrance of our inherent wholeness."
--TRACEE STANLEY, best-selling author of Radiant Rest
"Kerri, with her trademark dedication to fierce and honest self-examination, holds both herself and the culture of wellness accountable for the social dis-ease that continues to segregate health among its diverse citizenry."
--SEANE CORN, author of Revolution of the Soul
"This book is a valiant, brave, and timely compass and tool that we need right now as so many navigate the often wild, predatory, and ailing space of the so-called wellness industry."
-- OCTAVIA RAHEEM, founder of Starshine & Clay, a meditation and yoga studio for Black women and women of color, and author of Pause, Rest, Be
"... a call-to-action to improve the wellness of our communities and the world at large, too."
--SAH D'SIMONE, spiritual revolutionary and best-selling author of 5-Minute Daily Meditations