Wellness Culture

How Wellness Became A Market

If the last 50 years have taught us anything, it is that the systems that claim to keep us healthy will not save us on their own.

Nov 25, 2025 • Julia Craven

Black Histories of Sustainability Hold the Key to A Collectively Healthy Future

Time moves backward toward the present: Lessons from John Mbiti, Fannie Lou Hamer, the Gullah Geechee, and other Black elders and ancestors.

Nov 11, 2025 • Julia Craven

How to Cure Your Anxiety About Aging

My new essay, featured in Prism, is the marquee piece of September's Living A Better Life Resources.

Sep 3, 2025 • Julia Craven

The First Edition of The Library of Black Wellness Newsletter is Live

Thank you all so much for the constant support of me and my prolific use of creative free will.

Aug 27, 2025 • Julia Craven

Introducing The Library of Black Wellness

Black wellness practices are ancestral, inventive, and deeply communal. This library honors those stories, practices, and cultural knowledge.

Aug 11, 2025 • Julia Craven

Enough With The Protein Propaganda

No, I don't want protein dusted popcorn. Have you lost your mind?

Jul 18, 2025 • Julia Craven

Your Love Island Hot Takes Are Actually Conservative AF

It’s impossible to separate this commentary on women choosing to have sex from the systematic dismantling of health services that disproportionately…

Jun 24, 2025 • Julia Craven

Let’s Talk About Why I Love My Oura Ring

A comprehensive answer to one of the questions I’m asked most frequently.

May 30, 2025 • Julia Craven

How Emma Dupree Turned Her Backyard Into a Community Apothecary

The life and legacy of the esteemed North Carolina herbalist.

May 27, 2025 • Julia Craven

What A Week Of Wellness Really Looks Like

Field Notes 003 - missing supplements, skipping workouts, and sleeping in are all par the course.

May 16, 2025 • Julia Craven

Pampering Myself With Healthy Behaviors

What if, in the future, we saw boring, frustrating, but healthy behaviors as an act of softness?

Mar 20, 2025 • Julia Craven

Saying Goodbye To TikTok

Media is a conduit of culture, often informing the framework for how we relate information back and forth. That said, TikTok was a good thing for health…

Jan 17, 2025 • Julia Craven

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