Feedback for “Holistic Healers” and “Wellness Practitioners”

When Wellness is sickening

*Trigger Warning* Racism, imperialism, Hinduphobia, whiteness, white supremacy, cultural appropriation of literally everything Hindu and other Indigenous cultures

Screenshot with red circle and cross by me.

I watch a lot of documentaries and read a lot of articles on natural healing. It can be difficult and I grit my teeth through a lot of it. I pay attention to these outlets of information because I want to know what healing methods they’re culturally appropriating and what information they’re gatekeeping. This is important because cultural appropriation is an ancient tactic of imperialism and it continues to harm Indigenous people around the world.

This is an email I wrote to one docu-series team about their series on ancient holistic healing after I suffered through episode after episode:

To: [Insert colonizer email addresses here]

“Here’s some feedback:

One of the most difficult things about watching this series and other series like this one, as an Indigenous person, is to see non-Indigenous people speak as authorities on Indigenous modalities as if there are no Indigenous people around to speak as authorities on these…