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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2019 14:44:55 GMT
I wonder if she doesn't share any for free because the ones she does are for the class? She may not have any others to share. No clue if that's true or not and not trying to excuse it, definitely a bummer for those who do traditional! I solely pocket scrap but I totally agree it's easier to come up with stuff on my own. The inspiration I take tends to be more techniques based. I think you’re correct...I can’t remember the last time she made a layout “just because.” That was the last time I remember her doing a layout "just because". aliedwards.com/2018/08/love-the-way-you-shine-project-using-the-light-story-stamp
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Post by lasteve1 on Apr 27, 2019 21:31:53 GMT
Yes, although, not to be a skeptic, but I think that was really done as a promo for the story kit/stamp subscription to try to pick up new subscribers mid-month.
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Post by sleepingbooty on Apr 29, 2019 19:35:07 GMT
For anyone so. over. cultivating a good life/your authentic self/etc.: do NOT even attempt to watch the new Brené Brown special on Netflix. I tried. I really did. It drove me nuts. I didn't realise how much of Ali's work is Brené Brown-based. I'm surprised she doesn't owe her royalties or something. BB also speaks in that end-of-the-sentence-in-vocal-fry-register way. Nails on chalkboard for me.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2019 20:18:49 GMT
For anyone so. over. cultivating a good life/your authentic self/etc.: do NOT even attempt to watch the new Brené Brown special on Netflix. I tried. I really did. It drove me nuts. I didn't realise how much of Ali's work is Brené Brown-based. I'm surprised she doesn't owe her royalties or something. BB also speaks in that end-of-the-sentence-in-vocal-fry-register way. Nails on chalkboard for me. The day people stop using the word "cultivate", except if they work on a farm or in garden center, will be one of the happiest days of my life.
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Post by nicolep on Apr 29, 2019 20:26:21 GMT
For anyone so. over. cultivating a good life/your authentic self/etc.: do NOT even attempt to watch the new Brené Brown special on Netflix. I tried. I really did. It drove me nuts. I didn't realise how much of Ali's work is Brené Brown-based. I'm surprised she doesn't owe her royalties or something. BB also speaks in that end-of-the-sentence-in-vocal-fry-register way. Nails on chalkboard for me. The day people stop using the word "cultivate", except if they work on a farm or in garden center, will be one of the happiest days of my life. YES!
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Post by julie5 on Apr 29, 2019 20:34:25 GMT
For anyone so. over. cultivating a good life/your authentic self/etc.: do NOT even attempt to watch the new Brené Brown special on Netflix. I tried. I really did. It drove me nuts. I didn't realise how much of Ali's work is Brené Brown-based. I'm surprised she doesn't owe her royalties or something. BB also speaks in that end-of-the-sentence-in-vocal-fry-register way. Nails on chalkboard for me. The day people stop using the word "cultivate", except if they work on a farm or in garden center, will be one of the happiest days of my life. Yes! Whatever happened to just living?
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Post by sleepingbooty on Apr 29, 2019 20:40:50 GMT
For anyone so. over. cultivating a good life/your authentic self/etc.: do NOT even attempt to watch the new Brené Brown special on Netflix. The day people stop using the word "cultivate", except if they work on a farm or in garden center, will be one of the happiest days of my life. Or bio labs. Seriously, this is one of Brené Brown's go-to words. And now she's rephrasing it as "having to courage to."
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Post by hop2 on Apr 29, 2019 21:31:38 GMT
The day people stop using the word "cultivate", except if they work on a farm or in garden center, will be one of the happiest days of my life. Or bio labs. Seriously, this is one of Brené Brown's go-to words. And now she's rephrasing it as "having to courage to." Huh, I’ve been working real hard in maintaining my cool & always being in control? ( at least at work and in public ) guess I should stop?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2019 23:09:17 GMT
I dislike cultivate as much as I hate curate. Didn't like design your own story either. I prefer "... too busy keeping the balls in the air and not get boinked on the head by one of them" that's my life. Cultivate makes me think of a petri dish and I definitely do not want to be thinking of bacteria unless its in a blue cheese and curate makes me think of a vicar and if I lost my cool and control, I'd be out of a job! Ha. Getting too old for modern scrapbooking.....
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Post by joblackford on Apr 30, 2019 0:58:53 GMT
I dislike cultivate as much as I hate curate. My life is neither a veggie garden, nor an art exhibition...
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Post by nicolep on Apr 30, 2019 1:30:28 GMT
I dislike cultivate as much as I hate curate. My life is neither a veggie garden, nor an art exhibition... Mine are both of those if it involves weeds, horn worms and a messy preschooler painting! 😂 🤣
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Post by hop2 on Apr 30, 2019 12:10:37 GMT
I dislike cultivate as much as I hate curate. My life is neither a veggie garden, nor an art exhibition... When you put it that way, my life might have a little bit of curating in it even if it’s only 2nd hand. But since I moved to my apartment I’m not cultivating much. I hope. Though after the tv show last night that showed people bacteria could grow in your shower head I’ve got mine in bleach solution this morning. End that cultivating right now.
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Post by lisacharlotte on Apr 30, 2019 12:47:50 GMT
I find this type of "inspiration" so fake. I am not the target market for this type of "self-care" (another phrase that sets my teeth on edge). Living your best life in banal phrases that signify nothing.
I also want to know who hurt Jennifer McGuire. If I see one more IG post from her about lifting others, blah, blah, blah, I'm going to have to unfollow her. I can see posting something during her Kindness phase, but she posts as if she's striking back at someone. Someone must have given her a thumbs down.
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Post by lasteve1 on Apr 30, 2019 13:11:20 GMT
The day people stop using the word "cultivate", except if they work on a farm or in garden center, will be one of the happiest days of my life. Or bio labs. Seriously, this is one of Brené Brown's go-to words. And now she's rephrasing it as "having to courage to." Does anyone really treat exhaustion as a status symbol? Because I think that being rich enough to not have to work, hire a maid and spend my day at a spa would be a status symbol...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2019 13:29:02 GMT
Or bio labs. Seriously, this is one of Brené Brown's go-to words. And now she's rephrasing it as "having to courage to." Does anyone really treat exhaustion as a status symbol? Because I think that being rich enough to not have to work, hire a maid and spend my day at a spa would be a status symbol... They're so out of touch that they have no idea how out of touch they are. That is disgusting. People are exhausted because life is exhausting - esp. for those who are not rich, white, healthy and conventionally attractive. People are exhausted because wages are crap while profits are engorging those who have the time to write about how others should stop being exhausted, or at least stop talking about it. "Geez, line worker, wait person, store clerk, we don't want to hear about how you have to make it on $12/hr w/your kid and your sick parent. Shut up and cultivate!"
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Post by julie5 on Apr 30, 2019 13:37:02 GMT
Does anyone really treat exhaustion as a status symbol? Because I think that being rich enough to not have to work, hire a maid and spend my day at a spa would be a status symbol... They're so out of touch that they have no idea how out of touch they are. That is disgusting. People are exhausted because life is exhausting - esp. for those who are not rich, white, healthy and conventionally attractive. People are exhausted because wages are crap while profits are engorging those who have the time to write about how others should stop being exhausted, or at least stop talking about it. "Geez, line worker, wait person, store clerk, we don't want to hear about how you have to make it on $12/hr w/your kid and your sick parent. Shut up and cultivate!" I heart You. This right here is real life.
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Post by Citygirl on Apr 30, 2019 16:07:11 GMT
We should start a thread dedicated to this. I could go on and on about how I think this entire "self-help, self-care, self-love" trend is just a load of crap being used as a giant marketing tactic. It's a great one at that. FFS do functioning adults really need to be told these things?
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Post by marmargirl on Apr 30, 2019 16:32:28 GMT
We should start a thread dedicated to this. I could go on and on about how I think this entire "self-help, self-care, self-love" trend is just a load of crap being used as a giant marketing tactic. It's a great one at that. FFS do functioning adults really need to be told these things? It is so fake and comes off as hilarious to me! Why not scrapbook just to do it? Why must we “look at our lives through a lens”, or make everything into a “story”? Why does life need to be “cultivated”, with “guideposts” for how to live “intentionally”? Honestly, if I went about doing this hobby that way, I would be exhausted and lose all enjoyment in it.
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Post by sneakylatina on Apr 30, 2019 16:42:54 GMT
We should start a thread dedicated to this. I could go on and on about how I think this entire "self-help, self-care, self-love" trend is just a load of crap being used as a giant marketing tactic. It's a great one at that. FFS do functioning adults really need to be told these things? Oprah started all this in the 90s -- for well-off women to feel "deep." The "best life" stuff. I have no problem with self-improvement and learning. What bothers me is the externalized navel gazing to sell. OLW is a constant rehash of Ali's anxieties about her wellness journey. Her word can be "space" or "habit" or whatever, but the same "vision board" takes shape every year: pictures of yoga, healthy food, and nature, and "breathe" quotes. She just strikes me as really sheltered and neurotic sometimes. And yes, she's ripped off a lot of other "influencers" with her "message." It's all in the marketing. She's messy enough that she's "real" and privileged enough that she evokes enough envy to buy her products to feel part of her world... at least, I think, for a lot of her "followers." That's why she can rehash product and no one gives a shit. My two cents.
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Post by mrsshampoo on Apr 30, 2019 16:50:17 GMT
Anyone see the travel sneak peak at the end of Ali’s stories? I mean she has a whole bar of stories like BH, which I skipped over, but there seems to be a bermuda/turquoise-y tealish color album coming. Fingers crossed for no mustard puke color along with it.
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Post by BSideCrafter on Apr 30, 2019 17:47:25 GMT
Anyone see the travel sneak peak at the end of Ali’s stories? I mean she has a whole bar of stories like BH, which I skipped over, but there seems to be a bermuda/turquoise-y tealish color album coming. Fingers crossed for no mustard puke color along with it. I saw it. Give it to me already. I'll be picking up the 3x8 album for sure + kit. Last year I picked up almost everything and used A LOT of it. It's the one release I really can't seem to stop myself from. I'm even using pieces of it right now in a 3x8 album I'm working on.
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Post by sleepingbooty on Apr 30, 2019 18:43:29 GMT
I have no problem with self-improvement and learning. What bothers me is the externalized navel gazing to sell. OLW is a constant rehash of Ali's anxieties about her wellness journey. Her word can be "space" or "habit" or whatever, but the same "vision board" takes shape every year: pictures of yoga, healthy food, and nature, and "breathe" quotes. She just strikes me as really sheltered and neurotic sometimes. It's just the modern day's twist on traditional marketing: buy this to be more X (beautiful, strong, slim, the "best version of yourself"). Yawn. And that's why these vision boards repeat themselves ad nauseam: our social aspirations don't change as long as we're in the same social class so whatever those class ideals are, those are the ones we chase at no end. It's exhausting for the never-quiet mind (you and your life are never good enough). Anxiety and stress galore. Welcome to the world of marketing where major psychology professors who are willing to sell out get paid handsomely to teach the inside tricks to feed the fire of that profoundly human quest for perfection, Kant be damned! It reminds of me of the private nervous clinics in 19th century Vienna, full of lost souls of the upper class (and the reason for Freud's work), anxiety-riddled people, especially women, who were acting out on behalf of their tormenting depression, never managing to settle and just be content. I'm not going to fault those suffering but I also know that buying stuff from or through them is truly an act of the blind leading the blind. A good therapist will always be a far better investment than OLW kits, yoga retreats or vegan cuisine subscription boxes. Yes, basic meditation, healthy food and taking some time for self-reflection are beneficial to one's overall health BUT that won't solve the underlying problems. Don't get me started on the amount of scrap (and otherwise) products maintaining unverified claims as the standard. No, it doesn't take 21 or 31 days to create a habit. The scientifically backed number is at least 66 days for a daily routine habit. And that's not a given for everyone: per Philippa Lally, a health psychology researcher, and her proper scientific study on creating habits, it can take up to over 200 days for some folks to create a habit. F*ck the 21 or 31-day approach. No wonder these people don't actually create a new habit after tracking it for a month and find themselves fighting to "get back on track" year after year. Science has the instruction manual, not unqualified life gurus, influencers and other sales people who know all too well "more than two months" is just too long a commitment to seduce people with.
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Post by karinec on Apr 30, 2019 19:11:52 GMT
That would make a great t-shirt!
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Post by sneakylatina on Apr 30, 2019 20:04:28 GMT
I have no problem with self-improvement and learning. What bothers me is the externalized navel gazing to sell. OLW is a constant rehash of Ali's anxieties about her wellness journey. Her word can be "space" or "habit" or whatever, but the same "vision board" takes shape every year: pictures of yoga, healthy food, and nature, and "breathe" quotes. She just strikes me as really sheltered and neurotic sometimes. It's just the modern day's twist on traditional marketing: buy this to be more X (beautiful, strong, slim, the "best version of yourself"). Yawn. What resonates with me here is how far Ali has gone from artfully scrapping her memories to just hocking stale (to me) product by preying on your insecurity that your life isn't good enough.
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Post by mom on Apr 30, 2019 21:39:43 GMT
Ha. Ali is now advertising the Foodie bundle 'as a 20% savings'. Too bad it doesn't contain all the of foodie products. Also? The 2019 calendars must not be selling, because now you get one if you spend $50.
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Post by FuzzyMutt on May 1, 2019 17:27:31 GMT
It's just the modern day's twist on traditional marketing: buy this to be more X (beautiful, strong, slim, the "best version of yourself"). Yawn. What resonates with me here is how far Ali has gone from artfully scrapping her memories to just hocking stale (to me) product by preying on your insecurity that your life isn't good enough. I sure hope Katie reads this one.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2019 21:41:07 GMT
We should start a thread dedicated to this. I could go on and on about how I think this entire "self-help, self-care, self-love" trend is just a load of crap being used as a giant marketing tactic. It's a great one at that. FFS do functioning adults really need to be told these things? Oprah started all this in the 90s -- for well-off women to feel "deep." The "best life" stuff. I have no problem with self-improvement and learning. What bothers me is the externalized navel gazing to sell. OLW is a constant rehash of Ali's anxieties about her wellness journey. Her word can be "space" or "habit" or whatever, but the same "vision board" takes shape every year: pictures of yoga, healthy food, and nature, and "breathe" quotes. She just strikes me as really sheltered and neurotic sometimes. And yes, she's ripped off a lot of other "influencers" with her "message." It's all in the marketing. She's messy enough that she's "real" and privileged enough that she evokes enough envy to buy her products to feel part of her world... at least, I think, for a lot of her "followers." That's why she can rehash product and no one gives a shit. My two cents. Ironically, the single most important thing Ali needs to do to become mentally healthier and grow as a person is step away from professional scrapbooking/externalised-naval-gazing.
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Post by mom on May 1, 2019 21:53:21 GMT
Anyone watch Ali's May OLW video? Im getting an 'old man in pajamas and robe' vibe from her clothing choices. Am I over analyzing it?
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Post by julie5 on May 1, 2019 22:00:53 GMT
Anyone watch Ali's May OLW video? Im getting an 'old man in pajamas and robe' vibe from her clothing choices. Am I over analyzing it? I get “haggard house wife who can barely be bothered to run a brush through her hair” on almost everything she posts. She’s very drab and she doesn’t seem very happy.
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Post by mom on May 1, 2019 22:07:15 GMT
Anyone watch Ali's May OLW video? Im getting an 'old man in pajamas and robe' vibe from her clothing choices. Am I over analyzing it? I get “haggard house wife who can barely be bothered to run a brush through her hair” on almost everything she posts. She’s very drab and she doesn’t seem very happy. Its just weird...she has a white t- shirt on, with a stretched out neck that is curled and needs ironing and then blue and white striped bottoms on (come to find out, its a skirt, but looked like men's pj bottoms for most of the video). Then a brown sweater on. Her hair is pulled back in a messy bun and no make up (not that she has to put make up on). But the whole ensemble looks awkward seeing she is supposed to be a professional.
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