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Mar 7, 2023Liked by Sara Petersen

The word salad pseudoscience marketing 😝

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so many different types of lettuce - truly remarkable

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I can't read this and make my brain see anything other than the Heelys shoes with the wheels inside of them. Which honestly makes as much sense in terms of tapping into the Quantum as whatever the fuck the actual device is.

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100%

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Mar 7, 2023Liked by Sara Petersen

Thank you for this! I have seen this Healy device pop up in a few places lately where the Moms are dancing around making breakfast in the Quantum and saying how amazing their lives are now that they found the Healy. They make it seem like this is the thing that finally fixed all their parenting shit and it will fix mine too. Oh, there is so much I could say about how f’d up and predatory it all feels, so again thank you for exploring it. I love your work!

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P.S. While doing dishes for the millionth time, I realized my frustration stems from the suggestion to buy another thing to fix my frazzled nervous system when what I need is paid leave, accessible and free child care, affordable mental health care, monetary compensation for care work….and the list goes on.

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YUP!

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Whoever was in charge of marketing and product development failed on more ways than one. Googling "healys" just gives you results for Heely shoes. Even just singular you end up with one link for her and the rest are entertainment (Taylor Swift was dating Matty Healy??)

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absolutely cackling

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There are so many phrases in there that are just complete WTF but I think "drop my ego" is my new favorite. For whatever reason, I misread it as "dropkick my ego" initially and, well, that's an entirely different thing from Aquarian principles and the Quantum.

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hahahahaha

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"massive flow, permission to grow and allow.”

It's bumming me out that "allow" doesn't rhyme here. I'm going to start pronouncing it like it rhymes with "flow". Like "aloe". This is because I'm addicted to struggle and can't grow.

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excellent point

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I KNEW you'd love this one.

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