She argues that wellness culture often adopts cult-like behaviors, including the use of thought-terminating cliches and polarizing language to create in-groups and out-groups.

“In some of the more sinister wellnessy cults or like self-help cults that I've seen, you might hear things like um, you know, like, "Oh, that's just a victim mindset." you know, when someone expresses like a problem or or questioning or push back”