38 episodes
Love & Light Confessionals Katya Weiss-Andersson
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- Health & Fitness
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4.5 • 250 Ratings
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The new-age & holistic wellness world is all about love, light, authenticity and wellness for all, right? Not always. Love & Light Confessionals, formerly Kumbaya Confessional, is the insider exposé on the bizarre epidemics of the crunchy hippie world: cults, spiritual charlatans, toxic positivity culture, illegal pyramid schemes, fad diets and more.
Hosted by holistic wellness practitioner Katya Weiss-Andersson of the Queer Wellness Podcast, theme music by Will Shishmanian, logo by Nikkita Tetreault. To support this work, go to patreon.com/katyaweissandersson
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The Fall of the Coaching Industry
Despite what most coaches would have you to believe, many of them are struggling to make the kind of money and bring in the kind of engagement, attention and enrollment they used to. Why is the coaching industry crumbling? To answer that question, we delve into several more: Why do people say the coaching industry is a giant pyramid scheme? What should people do if they feel that they've been scammed by their coach? And what's about ethical coaches?
Clinical input and research courtesy of Mary Claire Ferachi (MA, LPC, LAC) and Katie Smith (MA, LPC, MFT-C)
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The Wellness Perfectionism Plague
What happens when spirituality and wellness-related tools end up giving us material for obsessive and unhealthy fixations?
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Uncanceled: Surviving Susun Weed
Susun Weed is a well-known herbalist living on a farm in Upstate New York. For decades, her survivors have told stories of being beaten, broken down, drugged and trafficked by her while paying for her courses and apprenticeships, yet Susun remains praised and platformed in the American herbalism community. How can this be, when so many (including law enforcement) have known about her abuse for so long?
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How the Grift is Grifted
How exactly do new-age and wellness influencers successfully convince people to give them so much money? This episode explores nine specific sales tactics, from love-bombing to prosperity gospel
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The Sisterhood of the Sacred No Homo
Guess what- most of those divine femininity influencer ladies? sleep with each other. all the time. While simultaneously building brands off of content that only acknowledges the validity of heterosexual relationships.
This is the story of how a community that claims to accept everyone manages to be homophobic as hell. -
Homeopathy
wtf is homeopathy? Does it refer to all holistic health practices, or one modality in particular? How is it different from herbalism? And most importantly, does it have any credibility?
Customer Reviews
I wish this podcast was out when i was 18
I am 28 years old and am just now coming out of a haze. I have been a victim to scams, grifts, and anxious overthinking since i became spiritual. I’m now learning a lot of the things i was subscribing to were repackaged Christianity that fed into my religious OCD. i have spent money that i don’t have and blamed myself for my manifestations not coming true. Katya is doing the *for lack of a better term* Lord’s work with this podcast. I hope she comes back from hiatus because this podcast is a NEED in this space. Especially because a lot of the other folks who are exposing this stuff are not talking about the white supremacy of it all. These conversations are SO necessary. Thank you, Katya!!!!
Katya Makes me want to memorize the english dictionary.
From someone who has been immersed in the spiritual and wellness world for two decades, listening to her mind is akin to taking the words directly from my mind. Only that her vernacular and trance inducing tonality more eloquently conveys them. Her cool interplay of words such as “I don’t want to yuck your yum” and “more spiritual lingo than a bottle of dr. bronners” makes me wish that one day I can learn to be this clever too. Her extensive vocabulary and concise creative intelligence blows my mind.
Gossip chats as a form of entertainment
This is a series of gossip chats as a form of entertainment.
Pretty much a collection of rumors and inferences to lead the listener to come to a predefined outcome. No different to a gossip column on famous Hollywood or royal people, just addressing same style to the wholistic community.
Unfortunately, unlike humorous gossipers (as the former Joan Rivers who was well networked) the narrator is simply skimming available information online, and is not actually in the actual leadership community of people for which she discusses. And hasn’t even met most of the people discussed in your gossip columns.
Beware. “Wholistic” masked as spiritual egoism.