The crystal industry has convinced you that rocks have magical healing properties that can cure your anxiety, attract love, and protect you from negative energy through vibrational frequencies that science can't measure but you should trust anyway. That's a profitable lie designed to sell you minerals at markups of 500 percent or more while keeping you dependent on buying more crystals for every problem in your life, instead of addressing the actual root causes. January is in

Let's destroy this fantasy right now: That $200 moldavite isn't going to transform your life. Your rose quartz grid isn't attracting your soulmate. And that black tourmaline by your door isn't protecting you from "negative energy" when the real negative energy is coming from inside your own unprocessed trauma.