Yoga Girl Rachel Brathen, Pseudo Guru, Real Cash Grab

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Winkle said:
i usually don't listen to her stories but my God that was irritating. She went so hard about going easy on herself but I somehow doubt she was that hard on herself in the first place. and in the middle of talking about how her family might be so unhappy she is still laughing ?!
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My first thought when I read this was how some people laugh when they're nervous, self conscious etc, but now having seen her story, yep I agree that didn't come across in that way, what she was saying, and the emotion of it wasn't matching up at all.
Felt a bit like she was only saying what she felt she should be saying sort of thing, like she knows everyone is probably thinking that, so she's going through the motions of paying lip service covering herself
 
Cocomelonmom said:
My first thought when I read this was how some people laugh when they're nervous, self conscious etc, but now having seen her story, yep I agree that didn't come across in that way, what she was saying, and the emotion of it wasn't matching up at all.
Felt a bit like she was only saying what she felt she should be saying sort of thing, like she knows everyone is probably thinking that, so she's going through the motions of paying lip service covering herself
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I dont feel that she necessarily made a bad decision or forced her family or whatever but I do think she made up that whole crisis of conscience so she could have some 'enlightened" 'self-compassion' content or something. I am questioning now why I follow her.

I also feel a bit negative now about criticising her -yes I know thats the type of outlet tattle is, but just would love some positive comments/recommendations also - I did start a thread before for yoga account recommendations, in case anyone has any Yoga influencers | Tattle Life
 
Winkle said:
I dont feel that she necessarily made a bad decision or forced her family or whatever but I do think she made up that whole crisis of conscience so she could have some 'enlightened" 'self-compassion' content or something. I am questioning now why I follow her.

I also feel a bit negative now about criticising her -yes I know thats the type of outlet tattle is, but just would love some positive comments/recommendations also - I did start a thread before for yoga account recommendations, in case anyone has any Yoga influencers | Tattle Life
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I get it, I feel negative also at times being on Tattle Life. We all have those moments of ‘influencers’ and the like annoying us and we just need to rant!
 
I guess I see Tattle as an outlet for the negative, since you can easily just go on to Rachel's - or whoever's - social media account and comment the positive and read all the positive comments others have left. Not saying we can't say "good" things too, of course if you want to rave about Rachel, go right ahead. My point is: We shouldn't try to tone police on either side.

I also think there's a lot to be said about someone who is literally making money off from presenting a certain image and claiming knowledge she doesn't have or has stolen without giving credit; someone who is also pushing a load of bs pseudo science about "Detoxing". She actually offers harmful advice that borders on an ED.

On another note, I envy how her "big crises", like yesterday's with Lea, just blow away in a matter of hours, a couple of days tops. It makes me wonder if they were a crisis at all or if she just makes them one to seem "relatable" and to offer some of her "sage" advice.
 
QueenBW said:
I guess I see Tattle as an outlet for the negative, since you can easily just go on to Rachel's - or whoever's - social media account and comment the positive and read all the positive comments others have left. Not saying we can't say "good" things too, of course if you want to rave about Rachel, go right ahead. My point is: We shouldn't try to tone police on either side.

I also think there's a lot to be said about someone who is literally making money off from presenting a certain image and claiming knowledge she doesn't have or has stolen without giving credit; someone who is also pushing a load of bs pseudo science about "Detoxing". She actually offers harmful advice that borders on an ED.

On another note, I envy how her "big crises", like yesterday's with Lea, just blow away in a matter of hours, a couple of days tops. It makes me wonder if they were a crisis at all or if she just makes them one to seem "relatable" and to offer some of her "sage" advice.
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Yes to all of this
 
QueenBW said:
I guess I see Tattle as an outlet for the negative, since you can easily just go on to Rachel's - or whoever's - social media account and comment the positive and read all the positive comments others have left. Not saying we can't say "good" things too, of course if you want to rave about Rachel, go right ahead. My point is: We shouldn't try to tone police on either side.

I also think there's a lot to be said about someone who is literally making money off from presenting a certain image and claiming knowledge she doesn't have or has stolen without giving credit; someone who is also pushing a load of bs pseudo science about "Detoxing". She actually offers harmful advice that borders on an ED.

On another note, I envy how her "big crises", like yesterday's with Lea, just blow away in a matter of hours, a couple of days tops. It makes me wonder if they were a crisis at all or if she just makes them one to seem "relatable" and to offer some of her "sage" advice.
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Yeah I totally got that with yesterday's 'crisis'. What does she say regarding food
 
Winkle said:
What does she say regarding food
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She does fasts, she's been on the celery juice bandwagon, she takes out whole food groups like grains because some quack doctor on the internet told her to do so to "detox" from the mold. She cut out sugar too - even fruits for a while - for that same reason, but it's very obvious she's loving losing weight. She's lost a ton of it over the last year. (She was never overweight but after Lea's birth there were a couple of years when she looked more "normal human" and less "fitspo yoga influencer"). And of course she keeps showing off photos of her working out (not yoga) and in the sauna "sweating" allegedly for "detox" but really, what the heck is even a detox? You have kidneys? Yes? Then you're detoxed...
 
Double post, but just had to come here cause I'm mindblown. No less than 10 instagram stories about her not shaving her armpits and not using deodorant and she now doesn't smell. So she says. Like, pretty sure if you ask someone who isn't used to your BO, Rachel, you'll be told you DO smell.

She thinks that if we all stopped wearing deodorant in 2 weeks we wouldn't smell... I haven't used deodorant for weeks during the pandemic, since I'm mostly alone at home. I do smell. I'm not magical like Rachel.

ETA: I love how she uses the term "chemical tit" about things like deodorant, or processed food. Her lack of education really shows. Everything is "chemical tit", Rachel. Your organic vegan food? Literally made up of chemicals. Your body? Also chemicals. The earth? Chemicals. She almost uses it as an insult, it's just hilarious.

I'm sad so many people believe what she says without doing a tiny bit of research. Girl is literally a college dropout. Maybe she shouldn't go around giving advice like she's an eminence on everything.
 
there is no way that she doesnt smell with armpit hair. the hair is there to catch the bacteria - and bacteria smells.

I also have an entirely unreasonable weird thing where i get irrationally annoyed by people's make up - when they do part of their face but ignore other parts. Rachel looks to me like she does a full face of foundation, eyelashes, brows, eyeshadow but stops before the blusher and lipstick, so the lower half of her face looks ill. I understand this is my problem entirely. but i just wanted to let it out :m
 
Cocomelonmom said:
Hahaha that's brilliant 🤣🤣

I'm just loving the fact that a load of her followers are now walking around with hairy stinking armpits 🤣🤣
...she's literally trolling her own followers!!🤣🤣🤣
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I couldn’t go without deodorant at all!! I am a sweaty person, never mind B.O. I’m not able for sweaty clothes! The pseudoscience she peddles does concern me at times. I’m all for crystals and homeopathic remedies, but she leans on shunning western medicine, which I don’t like.
 
Karen4eva said:
I couldn’t go without deodorant at all!! I am a sweaty person, never mind B.O. I’m not able for sweaty clothes! The pseudoscience she peddles does concern me at times. I’m all for crystals and homeopathic remedies, but she leans on shunning western medicine, which I don’t like.
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Totally agree. I think crystals, natural remedies when you're feeling a little poorly but not fully sick, astrology, tarot, etc. can all be nice things to add to one's routine, to get in touch with the more intuitive side of ourselves and let go a little of our "logical" sides. But when Lea was coughing up a lung and Rachel treated it with boiling onion vapors... yeah, that should be in addition to going to the doctor and getting whatever meds necessary, not in lieu of.
 
QueenBW said:
Totally agree. I think crystals, natural remedies when you're feeling a little poorly but not fully sick, astrology, tarot, etc. can all be nice things to add to one's routine, to get in touch with the more intuitive side of ourselves and let go a little of our "logical" sides. But when Lea was coughing up a lung and Rachel treated it with boiling onion vapors... yeah, that should be in addition to going to the doctor and getting whatever meds necessary, not in lieu of.
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Which again is also in total contradictory polar opposite to her reaction of lea possibly having covid back in March 2020?!! It doesn't match up therefore it makes no sense... Therefore one can only conclude she is full of ****!
 
Cocomelonmom said:
Which again is also in total contradictory polar opposite to her reaction of lea possibly having covid back in March 2020?!! It doesn't match up therefore it makes no sense... Therefore one can only conclude she is full of ****!
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It's gonna sound really cynical, but I'm pretty convinced she knew Lea didn't have covid back in 2020, and was just doing all that for attention.
 
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