The irony of all those "unstable moves" Shama "scarred" Rachel with in her youth is that Lea will be more scared and traumatized by moving because mommy Rachel is scared of germs and runs from home to home and throws out all their belongings.I definitely know what you mean! This is the only space to criticize a person with a public persona that I've ever posted in, honestly. Just because I felt like I was going crazy thinking she was spouting a ton of red flags, misinformation, and stories that were so out of touch with her privilege that it was delusional, but all of her social media comments were nothing but positive. It's just a relief knowing others are seeing through her too! But I was also very attached to her for a while and thought she was "one of the good ones." Maybe there aren't any good ones at all, but it still stings knowing that someone who I thought was actually real and authentic turned out to be just another white influencer lady trying to cover up their insecurity with wellness trend after wellness turned.
As for Shama, I totally believed Rachel's narrative too, but have been wondering more lately how much is embellished. And it really is horrible watching Rachel bash her mother for being unstable and then, in the same breath, talk about how they're moving Lea to a different country with a language she doesn't speak, a completely different climate, no friends and not particularly close to other people, a new school, changing her diet and going back on all the ethical reasons she told Lea they ate that way, moving to a new house every few months, fighting openly with her father who seems miserable, and now having a new baby.
Lea will also be in therapy in a few years-- like Rachel now, to talk about "feeling unsafe" when Rachel was panicking about her social media cancellation.
I literally have second hand trauma from witnessing Rachels online breakdown about mold and like her life is over etc. I can imagine the way we know Dennis is traumatized by Rachels full on throwing away of their life in Aruba (because of her admitting Dennis shuts down when the topic comes up)--Lea will be scared by this event.
Also-- Imagine bringing your man to therapy to badger him to a witness about why Rachels correct about it all. And what she gets out of the whole thing is that "she is a genius manifester" and it scares the quiet, lazy Dennis.
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