All things Becky15 Higgins/beggy Higgins

Yep. She had one bad day, but she figured out the cure. You just need to do what Becky does/says.

Becky's milking the woe-is-me narrative since that anxiety attack. She conquered the attack, she lived to tell the tale! Her one anxiety attack was her foot in the door for switching her social media narrative to how she lives with anxiety. 

Pray tell, Becky, how do you live with "anxiety"? Oh, let's see. By going to a desert resort to meditate. And she has a code so you too can go to Movara for 10% less! By hiking. Look at all the pretty photos of the Arizona desert! Please like and follow for more. And while you're at it, she has some of those Arizona desert photos up for sale as art prints for your home. Fear not, there is a Becky Higgins code to take 10 or so % off... Such a generous influencer. And also by writing. Oh, jeremysgirl , writing, where does one do all the writing to manage one's anxiety? Well, glad you asked. In notebooks! Becky Higgins notebooks, of course. They're perfect. The customers love them. It must be all the regular quality lined notebook paper. A beacon of light for one's anxiety, I swear. 

Science-based information? Pff, forget that. Here, buy some notebooks and go hiking. And hit that little heart on IG while you're at it. Mental health as a selling point, yes, that is some responsible marketing right there. It's not like Becky would know any better being married to a physician and being the daughter of a physician. 

"And buy some Salomons (which are now off my list as options for hikers) - they're a podcast sponsor, you know. And I can hike around in them spouting my upper-middle class mantras"

jeremysgirl if you'd only seen the IG story posts over the years w/her non-stop advice on "how to live a good life" you'd be appalled. Thankfully they disappear after a day or two - but she pumps that sh(#$* out there. Every week.

You know, so many people have told me that I ought to write a book. And others have said I should start a podcast. Talking about my experience with mental health issues. But I had to ask myself, who am I? Am I a psychologist, a psychiatrist, or a neurobiologist? Nope, I'm not any kind of expert. But I do enjoy mental health related memoirs. By actual people, living with actual mental health disorders. After a lot of nudging, I decided to start a blog. It would be all my thoughts about stuff going on my life, without any sort of sponsorship or expert advise. Just little ole me, talking. And if you choose to read, you choose to read. But I absolutely couldn't see myself making money off my mental illness or that of my children. It's just a personal line I did not want to cross. With that said, I appreciate the idea that others have encouraged me to write because they have gained insight into what it is like living with mental illness and I do find writing to be helpful. I also find running to be helpful. And I also find meditation to be helpful. With that said, I also feel therapy to be helpful and medication to be helpful and I have an honest-to-God diagnosed mental illness that I am trying my best to manage. I would never describe my bad days as "cuckoo for cocoa puffs."

I don't want to discount her experience. Maybe for her, it did feel like her life was unraveling. But it seems so patronizing to go public with this, with the intent of making money from it. I don't know. My thoughts are all over the place with this one.

Thank you.  

I chose not to participate in social media, so am reacting to the post shared on the previous page. IMHO including her physician husband’s “cuckoo for cocoa puffs” comment followed by laughing emojis exposes her supposed “anxiety attack” as a fraud/joke. I imagine the average person (without an anxiety-related diagnosis) has lost count of the number of times they’ve panicked or felt anxious, while she can only count one making her perhaps the least qualified person to opine on the issue. It seems the only subject she may be or at least gives the perception to be an expert on is privilege!

I totally missed THIS! on to reading the last page of the thread to see if it's talked about more... or can someone point me to this?   And to Heidi Swapp's, if she did this too??  I need something new to snark at, since not much is going on right now with Josh Duggar's (POS extraordinaire that he is) case right now.  Thx!!  

Maggie's is right there on her IG. February 10 post. Indoors event. Unmasked because of course. You can hear the size of the crowd gathered behind the camera with the conversational murmurs at the start, the amen, gasps, cheering and clapping. It is not small.
"And I want you all to know this Church is true. If it wasn't true I wouldn't be giving up two years of my life to the Lord." Oh boy, I'd forgotten Matthew's heartbreaking mission statement as his voice quivers and he nervously holds on to that envelope.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CLGSM9qJ4WG

This is the truth. People with mental illness cannot possibly recall all the times we've struggled in a significant way.



ITA.

I think you are right! Before her panic attack episode (and escape to the spa) I thought she was spiraling in a frantic way. Grasping for products to sell—dresses, wrapping paper, home dec stuff. It seemed like a mid-life crisis. I don’t doubt that she was feeling overwhelmed and out of control. But I do think she’s the kind of person who needs attention, lots of head pats and zero criticism. I don’t know if she ever acknowledged how privileged she was to leave for a week or however long it was. Most of us couldn’t leave our jobs, our kids, our husband, at the drop of a hat. And it really bugs me that she returned with a “cure” for all her fan girls. She needs her safe bubble.

<gag!!!>

Wow, I'm closer to athiesm (is that a word? my computer doesn't think so) than I thought, because I thought my eyes were gonna roll out of my head, watching this.  Five freakin' minutes to do this??  really?!?   And everyone on Instagram is *congratulating* Maggie Holmes for having such a beautiful family, and congratulating Matthew that he'll make the best missionary?   I thought everyone that age got to / had to go on a mission... I guess not??  (refugeepea or someone else familiar, can you comment?)  Is having parties for this a *thing* in all LDS circles, or just for the people who have huge Instagram followings??

Now, please excuse me while I go brush my teeth after all that saccharine-sweetness.  

No, just our local humane society thrift store. Clearly someone had just purged a craft room. There were 100's of stampin up stamps that appeared to be unused and then these pl kits. I got 5 for 1.99 each. There were duplicate kits, I just bought one of each.

Congrats on being fully vaxxed! I hope you find some really nice things at the AC warehouse sale. I wish I could go! They might have some hoard-worthy Shimelle stuff.    Let us know what you got in your haul! 

Ooh, nice find, Skellinton! I remember there were some SU PL kits that came in vertical storage boxes with little drawers (2014-ish, I think). Do the cards have rounded corners? 

Atheism is absolutely a word! It's not mandatory to go on a mission but very much encouraged, particularly for the young men. Sorry, the elders.    I actually found it heartbreaking to watch Matthew try to claim vehemently his Church was true. How sad to think that at the age of the blossoming and expansion of critical, independent thinking, all of that is pushed aside to publicly claim belief is truth and to be torn away from everything and everyone you love with very minimal communication and super restricted internet access for two years. He seemed very nervous, too. I hope they got/get him fully vaxxed in time because Paraguay's Covid-19 cases and deaths are currently on the rise again and the medical infrastructure is nowhere near to what the Holmes are used to. 

'Tis the McMansion of McMansions. The Holmes are fancy. No snark. Not my particular aesthetic but every snippet of her home Maggie has shared looks lush. (Becky wishes)