Rethinking Wellness

I am a big fan of Christy’s work. I feel drawn by many elements and also wonder if more nuance could be explored. I am thinking about the episode with Asher Pandijiris and the intersection between ancient indigenous healing traditions, perspectives and practices and “alternative medicine.” I think while Christy ventured into this a bit, there is room for expansion around the complete tossing out of “alternative medicine” (alternative to what? Who’s culture? Who’s belief system?) and the continuation of healing traditions like Ayurveda, TCM, or culturally rooted healing practices as effective and meaningful as soup recipes or foraged herbs. Sometimes the broadness of claims being made seems as problematic as the broadness of claims it is seeking to oppose. Nuance feels really important here.

I love Christy’s work. But I find that I can’t listen to this podcast like a regular podcast anymore. There’s too much content being put out as a teaser. More than other podcasts I listen to. I have found this to be the same with her newsletter, where her content there is 90% linking to paid content. I would suggest changing the model up, maybe every other episode being behind a paywall. I get that we all need to sustain ourselves out there! But this method is just putting listeners off.

Christy’s podcast used to be a go-to of mine for a decent amount of time. But ever since episode teasers and previews have become mainly the extent of the freely available content, the podcast has become irrelevant in my weekly rotation. The current monetization model is just not working.

Most of the content posted for this podcast is just excerpts trying to entice you to subscribe to her paid content or personal coaching. It’s extremely frustrating to have cliffhanger gotcha Five minute episodes teasing potentially important health information.