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The SacredWhy Western Wellness Can’t Heal Us: Fariha Róisín on Trauma, Islam & CapitalismFariha Róisín is a poet, Muslim, and survivor of extreme childhood trauma. In this raw, soul-baring conversation, they speak about the long road from abuse to healing - via Islam, queerness, Ayahuasca, and a radical reimagining of wellness.This is not your typical conversation about wellness, it's about what healing really takes and why the current wellness industry often gets it so wrong.🎧 In this episode:- What Western wellness won’t tell you about trauma- How Islam became a radical site of healing and resistance- Recla...2025-07-0258 min
Schauer ThoughtsWhy You Should Hate ICEThis episode of Schauer Thoughts is going to get frigid, we’re discussing ICE and their inhumane targeting of immigrants across the US. Please make sure to check out all linked resources, time is of the essence and your help is vitally needed. Thank you so much for listening.
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What is ICE and what does it do?
https://usafacts.org/articles/what-is-ice-and-what-does-it-do/
- Please read this with a *HUGE* grain of salt, the language is...2025-06-181h 03
Living the Questions with Courtney KoesterWhat If Your Wellness Isn’t Just About You? A Conversation with Nisha ModyWhat if your personal wellness is intertwined with the well-being of the world around you? Nisha Mody joins for a thought-provoking conversation on the complexities of personal wellness, self-trust, and the interconnectedness of individual and collective care. Nisha reflects on the tension between privilege and responsibility, questioning how her own well-being can exist in a world filled with injustice and violence. Through themes of grief, growth, and healing, she examines how stepping into personal power — while remaining present and self-compassionate — can be an act of service to the greater whole. From navigating discomfort and discernment to redefining wellness beyond comm...2025-04-241h 11
Things ChangeEp. 2 How To Embrace The Messiness of Change With Fariha RóisínIn today's episode I am talking-to the wonderful Fariha Róisín. Fariha is a multidisciplinary artist born in Canada, raised in Australia and now based in Los Angeles, California. They're a Muslim queer Bangladeshi interested in the margins, liminality, otherness, and the mercurial nature of being. They're the author of the poetry collections, How to Cure a Ghost and Survival Takes A Wild Imagination and the novel Like a Bird. Or so it says in the book jacket of their latest nonfiction hybrid memoir, Who is Wellness For? I've come across Fariha's work five ye...2025-04-111h 06
pleasure reading🌱 7 Recent Poetry Collections that Make Me Feel AlivePoetry is perfect for liminal seasons. And I find myself craving poetic wisdom as winter drags on and slowly turns to spring.So in this episode, I’m recommending seven recent poetry collections (released in 2023, 2024 or 2025) that are helping me feel alive right now!These books take on a wide range of themes, tones, and poetic forms, so there’s something here for everyone. Enjoy!📜 Recommended Books3:00 Two Open Doors in a Field by Sophie Klahr5:00 Instructions for Traveling West by Joy Sullivan6:00 Gemini Gospel by Bianca Alyssa Pérez8...2025-03-0721 min
Circle Time: A Book Club PodcastWho Is Wellness For? by Fariha RóisínYoga, meditation, astrology, good diet, high self-esteem; where does it all come from and who gets to have it? In this episode, we take a close look at the wellness industry through the lens of anti-colonialism and Róisín's personal experience. The responsibility the author puts on yoga teachers hits close to home for Michelle. Olivia wonders how technology and Instagram play into "real" wellness. Lauren wonders how to truly connect to intuition. Listen, and find out what wellness means to you!Join this conversation by sending us an email at circletimebookclub@gmail.com2025-01-291h 14
Common ShapesBusiness Temp CheckDear listener,SEASON THREE OF COMMON SHAPES IS UPON USIt is my absolute pleasure to be back on the microphone and in your ears. Talking about all things business, art, values, deactivating social media, systems, rituals, and practices!Links mentioned :Landscapes : A writing group for all genresCreative Ideation Portal : Free three day guide to visioning your projectsDevon Price's essay about burnoutWriting The Personal : A three week class to bring the poetic, personal, and political together for...2024-12-2318 min
No Body CriminalizedAbortion, Healing, and Bodily AutonomyRafa Kidvai is joined by Fariha Róisín, author of Who Is Wellness For? and Being In Your Body, about her own abortion and the complexities of bodily autonomy and self-care. Fariha discusses the limitations of wellness culture, the importance of addressing trauma, and the necessity of healing on both individual and collective levels. If you have questions about your legal rights or access to abortion, go to the Repro Legal Helpline or call 844-868-2812. If you are being criminalized for something that happened during a pregnancy, go to Repro...2024-12-1019 min
Do You Ever Feel Like?Everything is a dance with Cody Cook-ParrottToo many intro’s for a person who truly needs no introduction! Cody Cook-Parrott !! We hopped on the phone with Cody the day after they showed back up in IG with personal practise. We chat circles, entering the dance first, and being generous with space. Cody's “deeply online” career has influenced our own creative practises and it was a true blessing to chat through their multifaceted artistic endeavors, the experience of being a multi-hyphenate, and the balance of various roles and creative expressions. Plus obvi we chatted ole instagram, financial accessibility, paying yourself with your art, the moralization of self-e...2024-09-2053 min
'Is This Flattering?' with Matilda and Olivia MareeNaturopathy and Non-Binary Care with Jade Flint NaturopathSend us a textFind Jade:Instagram @naturopath___jadeflint / https://www.instagram.com/naturopath___jadeflint/?hl=enOTHER:Who Is Wellness for? Authored by Fariha Roisin.Alok V Menon: https://www.instagram.com/alokvmenon/?hl=enTransHub Link: https://www.transhub.org.au/Language and Terminology PDF link. https://www.prideinhealth.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Language-and-terminology.pdfTrans101 Link: https://trans101.org.au/Heal All Consulting – Instagram for practitioner education.Training Modules for practitioners: https://nw...2024-09-011h 37
The Love of Yoga Podcast2.02 Who is Wellness For? with Fariha Roisin“If we were able to just hold the multi- dimensional state of all things, I think we would just be more evolved. Because we are such binary thinkers that everything's this or that, and it's actually limiting. It's limiting us. It's limiting others. It's limiting society.”Fariha Róisín is a multidisciplinary artist, a Muslim queer Bangladeshi, who is interested in the margins, liminality, otherness, and the mercurial nature of being. Her work has pioneered a refreshing and renewed conversation about wellness, contemporary Islam, and queer identities and has appeared in The New York Times, Al Jazeera...2024-07-2949 min
How to Survive the End of the WorldEndurance Check In with Hala AlyanHala Alyan and adrienne meditate with grief, revisit endurance, share poems and thoughts on tides turning and elections and what is real and who is urgent.hala’s newsletter moonseed is now on substack @ halaalyan.substack.comfollow @hala.n.alyan and @fariha_roisin for a month of poemslove you, keep going2024-07-191h 05
Cruel Summer Book ClubBuilding My Freelance Life Brick by BrickThe Cruel Summer Book Club podcast is BACK, baby!
Host Jillian Anthony talks about the evolution of her thinking around work, money, and success as she’s built a career as a freelance writer and editor since 2020. After reclaiming her creativity for four years, she’s ready to share what she’s learned so far. She discusses the new focus of CSBC — making space for your art and yourself — and what this podcast and the CSBC newsletter will look like moving forward. Plus, she talks about learning to decouple her self-worth from work, cultivating a sense of “enoughness,”...2024-06-2741 min
Stars and Stars with IsaFariha Róisín: Capricorn Sun, Cancer Moon, Cancer RisingMultidisciplinary artist, poet, and writer Fariha Róisín is a Capricorn Sun and Cancer Moon and Rising. Host Isa Nakazawa sits down with Fariha to unpack how her chart illuminates the trajectory of her writing career, from a critical examination of wellness culture to her own healing from childhood abuse. Fariha shares details of her journey to mending her body and spirit through liberation. Isa also guides Fariha through her Saturn and Pluto placements, planetary aspects that are slow to arrive — but when they do arrive, they arrive with force.
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Bread & PoetryManna & Seeking Truth with Fariha RóisínOn this episode, we break bread with poet Fariha Róisín and talk about manna, seeking truth, and Refaat Alareer.Guest: Fariha Róisín, IG: @fariha_roisin, Website: www.fariharoisin.com, Substack: fariharoisin.substack.com, Book: Survival Takes a Wild ImaginationBio: Fariha Róisín is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Ontario, Canada. She was raised in Sydney, Australia, and is based in Los Angeles, California. As a Muslim queer Bangladeshi, she is interested in the margins, liminality, otherness, and the mercurial nature of being. Her work has pioneered a refreshing and renewed...2024-01-301h 07
United BodiesHow America Took the Healing out of Wellness with Fariha RóisínContent Warning: Child Sexual AbuseIf you listen to a podcast, scroll through Instagram, read your favorite news site, chances are that you’ll run into an ad for a new wellness product that you likely do not need. Preying on our innate fear of our own mortality, the wellness industrial complex is the manifestation of a kind of capitalism, colonization, and white supremacy, that promises you that if you buy this green juice, or do that colon cleanse, you too will be saved from illness, disability, or death. You will maintain power and control over yourself an...2024-01-1545 min
The Labia LoungeOvercoming Sexual Shame and Trauma with Charna CassellThis week in The Labia Lounge I had Charna Cassell on to talk about all things sexual trauma and shame. Charna is an LMFT, and a Trauma-Trained Psychotherapist and Sexuality Coach who helps people heal, connect, and find pleasure in their bodiesWe discuss what constitutes sexual trauma, how it presents in our lives and bodies, the nuances behind the actual word 'trauma' and how it can be over-used, how sexual shame comes to effect us and live inside of us, how to overcome the crippling effects of these in our sex lives, the mind-body connection and...2023-12-311h 17
Common ShapesHow to Tell the Truth with Fariha RóisínThis week on Common Shapes podcast, I’m joined by my dear friend Fariha Róisín for a conversation at the intersections of writing, politics, care, and liberation.Fariha is a multi-disciplinary artist born in Ontario, Canada and raised in Sydney, Australia. As a Muslim queer Bangladeshi, she is interested in the margins, liminality, otherness, and the mercurial nature of being. She’s the author of five books and writes the Substack newsletter, How to Cure a Ghost.In this episode, Fariha shares her experience telling the truth amidst propaganda and channeling righteous rage into w...2023-11-2948 min
EmbodiedComplicated: Healing from Complex PTSDWhat happens when trauma occurs not as a single isolated event, but millions of smaller, ongoing incidents? Guest host Anisa Khalifa talks with an artist, psychotherapist and racial trauma expert about understanding complex post-traumatic stress disorder and the path to healing.Meet the Guests:- Fariha Róisín, a multidisciplinary artist and writer, talks about her journey to healing from complex trauma and why her newest book is titled "Survival Takes a Wild Imagination"- Dr. Karen Winkler, a nurse-psychotherapist with a doctorate in clinical psychology and long-time advocate for people living wi...2023-11-1732 min
For The WildFARIHA RÓISÍN on the Courage of Listening to Our Bodies /354This week, Fariha Róisín offers both timely and timeless wisdom on what it means to live in a body that has experienced trauma. This is a conversation that bears witness to the deep terror and distress of the world and still charges forward with undying compassion and care – the compassion and care of wild survival. Offering both deep personal reflection and spacious contemplation about the state of the world, Fariha reminds us that our bodies guide us to what we need. This episode brings up the things that we so of...2023-11-021h 10
Stance Podcast with Chrystal GenesisOn Humanity w/ Philosopher & Historian Professor Lewis R. Gordon; Poet & Writer Fariha Róisín; Music w/Soul Singer-songwriter Danielle PonderHow do we tap into sources of hope, compassion and humanity during such turbulent times? This episode of Stance explores this question through the lenses of philosophy, poetry, and music. Professor Lewis R. Gordon is a philosopher, musician, and historian whose areas of focus include existentialism, Africana philosophy, social and political theory, theories of race, and philosophies of liberation and education. He speaks with us about compassion, politics and power during periods of uncertainty and upheaval. Poet, writer and multidisciplinary artist, Fariha Róisín shares her latest poetry collection, Survival Takes A Wild Imagination, an...2023-11-0143 min
Many Lumens with Maori Karmael HolmesMoving past fear with Fariha RóisínMaori chats with multidisciplinary artist and author Fariha Roísín (Like a Bird, Who Is Wellness For?). Fariha talks about growing up Bangladeshi in Australia, what it’s like to have a Marxist parent, and her journey towards becoming more connected to her name. We also hear why poetry helps her express herself more freely––and more precisely, how she moves past fear when sharing very personal work, her definition of beauty, and why her new book (Survival Takes A Wild Imagination) is more playful than her previous writing. A content warning to listeners, this episode m...2023-10-1841 min
LaidOPEN PodcastThe Impact of Systemic Dis-ease on the Collective with Fariha RóisínThese days, lots of us are being forced to see how the ways we exist in the world both help and harm. Today’s guest is queer, Bangledeshy author and artist, Fariha Róisín aka @fariha_roisin. Her latest book “Who Is Wellness For?” does a tremendous job of tackling this topic through the narration of her own life. She uses her story of surviving childhood sexual abuse and a mentally ill mother to guide us through the resources that aided in her healing. While also, attributing all of our traumas to the lack of wellness within society and how...2023-10-031h 20
Conscious RevolutionThe Cult of Self-help (Part 1)Are you ready to unravel the layers of the self-industry to reveal the cult tactics underneath? Ever wondered about the driving force behind our collective conversations about self-help, and where these ideas originated from? Buckle up, because in the 1st of this 2-part solo episode, I’m taking you through my journey as a recovering self-help junkie— and the insights that have helped me redefine what authentic growth means beyond commercialized interests of a capitalist industry. We can’t talk about the self-help industry (or any other capitalist industry) without setting the context. In thi...2023-08-181h 08
Current MoodHealing Through Pleasure with Fariha RóisínFariha Róisín is a queer Mulsim Bangladeshi multidisciplinary artist, writer, author, poet, astrologer, and consultant based in Los Angeles. Born in Ontario, Canada, and raised in Sydney, Australia, Róisín explores the margins as a thought pioneer through the culture of healing.
Róisín was so vulnerable and open in this conversation. We go super deep into healing money wounds, how our identities are shaped and how they relate to our perceived value and worthiness, and how those things are so integrated into the ways we interact with the constructs of cap...2023-07-211h 07
Busy BodyWho is Wellness For with Fariha RoisinOn this episode I'm joined by author Fariha Roisin to discuss her book Who Is Wellness For. I could talk to Fariha for hours! She is an insightful, sensitive writer and speaker. Her book bridges memoir and journalism to bring light to the many ways that the wellness industry and the pursuit of healing can harm those already affected by white supremacy and colonialism's violent legacy. We had a fascinating conversation discussing the role of imagination in healing, the political importance of self care and the heartbreakingly much too common wound of incest. Find her book HERE a...2023-06-171h 15Common ShapesThe Art of NewslettersToday’s episode of Common Shapes is about why I love newsletters and why you (yes, you) should have one.Together we’ll explore the marketing side and the creative side of newsletters. I’ll also share—My journey starting my newsletterHow to choose your email service providerThe newsletter tech I recommendWhat to put in your newsletterExamples from my favorite newslettersHow to decide if your newsletter should be paid or freeAfter you listen, go get my free Creative Ideation Portal, and get ready to hit send on your first (or next) newsletter today.2023-05-2434 min
CBAW Loves...Who is Wellness For? (Part 1) Featuring Fariha RóisínSeema & Amelia sit down with Fariha Róisín to discuss how she took care of herself while writing Who is Wellness For?, what love means to her, and the energy needed to keep trying to be a good person.
Send in your thoughts to cbawloves@cbaw.org or share them on social media using the #CBAWLOVES hashtag.
About Who Is Wellness For?
The multi-disciplinary artist and author of Like a Bird and How to Cure a Ghost explores the commodification and appropriation of wellness through the lens of social justice, providing resources to...2023-05-1753 min
CIIS Public ProgramsMimi Zhu: On Not Being Afraid of LoveIn their early twenties, author and artist Mimi Zhu was a survivor of intimate-partner abuse, which left them broken and in search of healing paths to re-learn love. Mimi began writing a collection of powerful, interconnected essays and affirmations that followed their journey toward embodying and re-learning love after their violent romantic relationship. The result is a stunning and provocative book, Be Not Afraid of Love, which like all of Mimi’s work, is a testament to the strength and adaptability humans possess and a tribute to love.
In this episode, Mimi is joined by author and multidisciplinary artist Fariha Ró...2023-05-041h 02
Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Health & Wellness, Mindfulness & MeditationA Recipe for More: Ingredients for a Life of Abundance and Ease by Sara ElisePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616344to listen full audiobooks.
Title: A Recipe for More: Ingredients for a Life of Abundance and Ease
Author: Sara Elise
Narrator: Sara Elise
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
Release date: May 2, 2023
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1
Genres: Mindfulness & Meditation
Publisher's Summary:
''Each new day is a singular moment, a singular opportunity. No day is like the last and no day is like what’s to come. We have arrived, and we are simultaneously arriving.” In this expansive debut, A Recipe for More: Choosing a Life of Pleasure and Abundance, creative, host, and ''pleasu...2023-05-025h 58
Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Health & Wellness, Mindfulness & MeditationA Recipe for More: Ingredients for a Life of Abundance and Ease by Sara ElisePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616344 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Recipe for More: Ingredients for a Life of Abundance and Ease Author: Sara Elise Narrator: Sara Elise Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 58 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Mindfulness & Meditation Publisher's Summary: ''Each new day is a singular moment, a singular opportunity. No day is like the last and no day is like what’s to come. We have arrived, and we are simultaneously arriving.” In this expansive debut, A Recipe for More: Choosing a Life of Pleasure and Abundance, creative, host, and ''pl...2023-05-0205 min
vibes em análiseDETOX (DE NOVO?)o loop de intoxicação, desintoxicação e reintoxicação tomou conta de muitos campos da sociedade, do nosso corpo e da nossa saúde mental. mas onde que o detox falha?... e se torna inclusive um grande perigo para os comportamentos obsessivos?
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Plot Twist, Please!Lucky Girl Syndrome and Wellness Individualism***Readings***
Manifestation vs. LGS
https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/4ax9dm/lucky-girl-syndrome-is-the-peak-of-the-internets-delusion-era
https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/lucky-girl-syndrome-smug
https://sports.yahoo.com/tiktoks-lucky-girl-syndrome-explained-150000114.html
Limitations of Positive Thinking
https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/lucky-girl-syndrome-smug
https://www.self.com/story/fariha-roisin-who-is-wellness-for/amp
https://theoneulzine.com/articles/the-contemporary-whitewashing-of-wellness-and-spirituality
https://medium.com/the-reynolds-media-lab/how-cultural-practices-are-becoming-whitewashed-trends-f8505d8f5caa
https://manifestationsgalore.com/does-manifesting-work/
Hope
https://quotefancy.com/quote/980539/Bell-Hooks-Hope-is-essential-to-any-political-struggle-for-radical-change-when-the
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Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast#UWRF22 Festival Highlights | The Two Sides of the Wellness IndustryListen to an engaging conversation with Huda Fadlelmawla, Bandana Tewari, and Fariha Roisin who share their unique perspectives with Eva Fernandes, on the wellness industry—which has become a multi-billion-dollar business that claims to improve our health, happiness, and longevity!You can listen to this #UWRF2022 session on Spotify, or watch it on YouTube 👉 http://bit.ly/UWRF22FestivalHighlights.
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CIIS Public ProgramsFariha Roisin: Who Is Wellness For?Fariha Róisín is a multidisciplinary artist and author who was born in Ontario, Canada and raised in Sydney, Australia. She is now based in Los Angeles, CA. As a Muslim queer Bangladeshi, she is interested in the margins, liminality, otherness, and the mercurial nature of being. Fariha’s latest book Who Is Wellness For? explores the ways in which the progressive health industry has appropriated and commodified global healing traditions. She reveals how wellness culture has become a luxury good built on the wisdom of Black, brown, and Indigenous people while both ignoring and excluding them.
In this epis...2023-02-0958 min
Women Who Travel | Condé Nast TravelerAuthor Fariha Roisin Asks: Who Is Wellness For?Wellness is an immensely popular—and profitable—industry when it comes to travel, but with a near-endless slew of options for self-care to consider, from ayueverdic yoga to sound baths to ayahausca retreats, the meaning of what wellness actually is can get diluted. To find out more, Lale chats with Fariha Róisín, a poet, novelist, nonfiction writer, and author of the book Who Is Wellness For? to answer just that.
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Against Everyone with Conner HabibAEWCH 211: FARIHA RÓISÍN on HOW TO LIVE: BEYOND WELLNESSIn the fourth How To Live Beyond episode, writer and artist Fariha Róisín and I discuss the problems with wellness, and what radical wellness would look like - less tracking on your fitbit and more connecting with God.2023-01-241h 48
How to Be HumanMindfulness, Meditation and MariI knew I liked Mari immediately when I met her. We met in Fariha Roisin's Writing with Vulnerability in Mind and as soon as Mari started talking I thought that woman knows some things. Turns out she really really does. Mari Orkenyi is a Contemplative Educator, Psychoanalyst Candidate and Writer. Her work lives in the space where Contemplative Practices, Buddhist Psychology and Psychoanalysis intersect. Mari holds a Masters in Arts, is Certified in Contemplative Psychotherapy and is Certified Meditation Teacher. She supports individuals, corporate teams and groups with Contemplative Practices guiding them on a journey of self awareness, exploration an...2022-12-2757 min
Seek SafelyArticulating a New Self-help Industry with Anne PetersonAnne Peterson has worked in and around the self-help industry for decades. Anne has designed and delivered programming for her own company as well as for some of the most prominent self-help gurus and one of the largest international self-development organizations in the world. Anne is hard at work to impact and improve this industry where she has spent so much time and, like us, sees so much potential. On this episode, Jean, Glenn, and Anne, chat about what a better self-help industry could look like: how to make space for the potential o...2022-12-051h 08
Satisfaction Factor#55 - What If I Still Want To Lose Weight?Despite the fact that Intuitive Eating is absolutely not a weight loss program, most people come into the practice holding out the hopes that they will lose weight. And that's okay! And because of how common this is, we wanted to dedicate an episode to addressing the nuances of why weight loss and Intuitive Eating don't go together, and why it's important to at some point start to unpack and let go of those weight loss hopes. Within this episode we're talking about: why it's so common to hold out hopes of weight loss when starting an Intuitive Eating...2022-11-0257 min