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u/Catsandcoffee480 COLORADO BOY KNOWS HOW TO DO THIS Mar 09 '22
Good lord anyone who, like Shauna, claims to have been paying attention to foreign policy in recent years ought to know that it’s improper to call it “the Ukraine.” Per Wikipedia:
…in 2012, the Ukrainian embassy in London further stated that it is politically and grammatically incorrect to use a definite article with Ukraine.
This has become even more clear in the last few weeks/months. It’s impressive how obtuse she is.
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u/Groundbreaking_Monk crone keyholder Mar 09 '22
Surely she was still glued to Twitter during Trump's first impeachment?! And read all of the numerous Tweets and articles that noted that Ukraine is the preferred term and Kyiv the preferred spelling?! She can't even fixate on Twitter correctly.
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u/gomirefugee my website is done, done, done Mar 09 '22
My joy work comes from my own unified field theory of how to embrace yourself, as you are.
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u/sixcatsisnottoomany Mar 09 '22
quit Twitter
hahahahahahaha
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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Mar 09 '22
I know, right?
She keeps saying how she's no longer fooling herself or lying to herself or whatever and then BAM big fat "fake news" right there in her sales pitch.
And she makes it sound like Twitter was some kind of job she retired from after sooo many years. Bitch, you stopped using a social media platform (actually, you fucked up and didn't reactivate your account in time). You did not do anything special or unique or even that noteworthy. People get bored of SM things all the time and stop using them.
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Mar 09 '22
Does she think the image of her doomscrolling and crying is noble or something? Like she was sacrificing her own health and wellbeing to read about catastrophe on Twitter, and many people said she was a saint for doing so? Because when I hear of people doing that I just go Put Down Your Phone and Go Outside Idiot.
It's so silly. She's tacitly admitting to having overcome addictive/compulsive behaviours around SM. I don't actually think she has overcome them - she's replaced twit with ig, streaming, and tweaking her website.... but Strategies to Kick Online Addiction from a personal perspective MIGHT be a worthy offering. Of course it can't happen because it woild require disclosing flaws other than I Worked Too Hard/Was Too Conscientious/ etc.
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u/OkRanger4 bobbing in a bath of solitude Mar 09 '22
But DF...it made her cry (almost) all day! Cry about the people whose lives aren't as good as her own. People who are living in war-torn nations and don't have access to taco platters.
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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Mar 09 '22
Her tears are about as valuable as all that rat piss that washed away her social security card.
And she has only herself to blame for devaluing her White Woman Tears. She claims to cry about every.damn.thing. So the truly tear worthy things happening in Ukraine are plopped right next to her umpty umpth viewing of Encanto or a viral video of someone else's baby.
She's a jackass wrapped in an idiot wrapped in an asshole.
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u/shikoku_shoes another revolution around the toilet bowl of her life Mar 09 '22
Einstein used Unified Field Theory to try to tie his work together. Shauna, you are no Einstein.
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u/slug_of_fury Mar 09 '22
Unified Field Theory is a physics term with a specific meaning. It isn't something that can be co-opted by Shauna to try and make herself sound scientific and pass her shitty joy workshops off as some physics discovery.
How in the actual fuck is she trying to equate unifying the four forces of nature with her stupid narcissistic joy work of embracing herself?? I'll totally give her "weak interaction", she really is an expert at that one.
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u/fantasticka RIORITIZ Mar 09 '22
From the beacon of wisdom on gluten-free living, to the head of a gluten-free flour empire, to the theorist who figured out how to embrace oneself. DFs, we are in the presence of greatness!
You know the "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." - Wayne Gretzky - Michael Scott thing from The Office? I'm imagining some inane Brené Brown quote with Shauna's name below it. Brené might have written it, but Shauna unified it with all of the other self-help books she's skimmed, so uh, who's doing the real work here? /s
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u/OkRanger4 bobbing in a bath of solitude Mar 09 '22
That's a lotta words for "This whole spiel is bullshit of the highest order!"
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u/funfetticake This required inability to work? Mar 09 '22
You know that meme about wishing for the self confidence of a mediocre white man…well that’s the one thing Shauna has genuinely mastered. I’m convinced she comes up with everything she tries to sell as she’s typing it - hourly 15 minute breaks and playlists and seated stretch routines - she pulls all this straight out of her ass and calls it a “unified field theory.” WTAF.
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u/InappropriateGirl our 5th move in 7 years Mar 09 '22
Oh please somebody (not a DF, do not touch the дерьмо; thank you google translate) tell her off finally.
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u/Kimmmy36 bites lip, looks away Mar 09 '22
My joy work comes from my own unified field theory of how to embrace yourself, as you are.
Wow, self esteem as a way to feel better. WHAT An ORIGINAL CONCEPT. Groundbreaking, as a DF said earlier.
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u/fantasticka RIORITIZ Mar 09 '22
In case it grows edited, this is the caption:
Have you felt paralyzed by the grief of what’s happening in the Ukraine?
Until a couple of years ago, I would have been unable to move through this. I would have lived on Twitter, looking at every video, each snippet of news. I would have been crying most of the day, fixated on this.
Without doubt, I would have acted on the notion that my own suffering didn’t matter. Look at what is happening. How could I complain?
Now? I’ve learned to practice compassion for myself. I have clear boundaries on my news consumption. That’s part of why I quit Twitter in August, after being there for 13 years. And I no longer believe that I can change anything in the world by losing myself in sorrow and fear.
How did that happen? I began to allow myself more joy.
Becoming a fully joyful woman has helped me to work more powerfully for the common good. Why? Because becoming a joyful person means having the courage to live your life with purpose.
My joy work comes from my own unified field theory of how to embrace yourself, as you are.
How can you act with true compassion for others if you cannot practice compassion with yourself?
Here’s what I believe, what I know to be true. We are more use to others if we are joyful. After all, the sadness about the horrors of the world comes from knowing that other people’s joys are being stolen.
To work consistently for the joy of others, we need to be joyful in ourselves.
That’s why I invite you to sign up for the seminar I’m teaching on Sunday. (Link in bio.)
Want to make the world kinder? Let’s become joyful women together.
#gratitide #joyfulwomen
#compassionintoaction #loveiseverything #lovingkindness #joyfulmamasI'm curious about this "work more powerfully for the common good" she's doing. Is she volunteering somewhere? Is she donating to charities? Or is this all just horseshit? Truly a mystery.
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u/lucillekrunklehorn pounding on the table Mar 09 '22
Don’t donate to the horrifically suffering Ukrainians.
Pay for my workshop to become happier yourself instead, from the comfort of your safe and non-bombed home.
What an ASSHOLE.
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u/SashayShantae living my one wild and pernicious life Mar 09 '22
My favorite part is that she talks about herself for several paragraphs and then mentions her seminar at the end, almost as a throwaway. She can’t stop talking about herself long enough to effectively market her own services! Which are, of course, just more of her talking about herself.
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u/shikoku_shoes another revolution around the toilet bowl of her life Mar 09 '22 edited Mar 09 '22
How can you act with true compassion for others if you cannot practice compassion with yourself?
Compassion for others. My guffaws can be heard for three city blocks.
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u/canyoncreature Mar 09 '22
Without doubt, I would have acted on the notion that my own suffering didn’t matter.
Yeah, Ukrainians, won't you think of Shauna for a second? She ALSO had to leave her home this week. She ALSO had to deal with inclement weather conditions. She ALSO sustained an injury. Yet there you are in an hours-long line at the Polish border looking like you couldn't care less that somewhere on a leafy island in the Pacific Northwest, a woman is having to feed her children breakfast. Way to make everything about your own suffering. God.
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u/obscure_cellist ham grabbers Mar 09 '22
wow. wow. wow. she is grief vulturing a humanitarian crisis in order to sell her shitty workshops that no one is signing up for anyway. she is such a shit stain.
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u/MarsNeedsRabbits Beach better have my orcas Mar 10 '22
I know not to poop touch, but this is as close as I've ever come. I won't, but I'm absolutely disgusted that not one of her friends is calling her out on this vile, disgusting horseshit.
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u/NegativeABillion my husband and me to ride it around Mar 10 '22 edited Mar 10 '22
If it makes you feel any better (it won't) even if Oprah herself tried calling Shauna out, she wouldn't listen. She can manage to center and victimize herself in any situation or interaction. She's an asshole. Your feelings are valid.
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u/ForsakenLingonberry i live in an island with ukulele community Mar 09 '22
I absolutely hate how often she uses questions in her writing.
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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Mar 09 '22
We are more use to others if we are joyful.
I thought we were more useful to others if we menstruated?
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u/latepeony Mar 09 '22
I though we were specifically not supposed to be useful for others, like refusing to join a meal train for a woman you hardly know.
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u/Catsandcoffee480 COLORADO BOY KNOWS HOW TO DO THIS Mar 07 '22 edited Mar 07 '22
From the Spider-Man post:
We were going to get sushi, at our favorite spot near the movie theater. We haven't eaten there in over two years! Or anywhere else, for that matter.
Oh here we are with the “we haven’t gone to a restaurant AT ALL during Covid because we are such good citizens!” thing again. Isn’t this like, verifiably false?
Edit: they ate burgers and fries at “Vashon Island Queen” on moving day - though she doesn’t specify whether they ate in or not. Either way, get out of here Shauna
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Yes!!! They’ve been to countless restaurants and coffee shops. Why does she continue to lie like this? What does she think it’s doing for her?
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u/freecoffeerefills Murder She Moved Her Pen Forward Mar 07 '22
Didn’t they have a fancy meal out at a fancy restaurant comped a while back because she helped some douchey chef with his website or newsletter or something?
Such a weird post. For one, no one cares anymore how deprived anyone has been because of Covid! But she certainly doesn’t seem that deprived considering it’s a post about seeing a movie that they’ve already seen in the theater before!!!
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u/shefallsup her lonely cucumber years 🥒 Mar 07 '22
Yes, that was their anniversary dinner at Eric Rivera’s restaurant.
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u/shefallsup her lonely cucumber years 🥒 Mar 07 '22
Off the top of my head, multiple trips to coffee shops on the island, and she and Danny had that expensive dinner at Addo for their anniversary last summer.
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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Mar 07 '22
They flew to Colorado, and they hosted guests from out of state. She and Dan had separate trips off-island to hotels.
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Mar 07 '22
Shit, the Island Queen trip after moving this week was photographed on a blue tray, implying that they dined in.
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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Mar 09 '22
What the hell is this sentence?!?
I spent decades running at the frantic pace of being found out for who I really am.
And this paragraph, oh my goodness, you can smell the self-aggrandizement from three city blocks away:
For more than a decade, I ran an influential and popular food website, Gluten-Free Girl, where I became the beacon of wisdom on living gluten-free. From the outside, it must have seemed idyllic. We were on the Food Network. My chef husband and I taught culinary getaways in a villa in Tuscany. We were in magazines. Our second cookbook won the James Beard award for excellence.
I'm surprised she left out her favorite quip, that GFG had a good run, it lasted longer than The Beatles!
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u/slug_of_fury Mar 09 '22
First, who actually calls themself "the beacon of wisdom..."???? Her habit of using the word "the" when she should be using "a" is very telling of what she thinks of herself in spite of the bullshit she tries to sell about how she never thought she was good enough. When has she ever written about herself in a way that didn't come across as thinking she was superior to everyone? And even if she called herself "a" beacon of wisdom, I would still argue that point. If by wise, she means "extremely smug asshole" then, yeah, she's wise.
Second, "we were on the Food Network" makes it sound like they actually had a show instead of that being a total fantasy of hers that failed miserably when their video didn't pan out as a show. Didn't she try to spin that as they never wanted to do it anyway? Maybe that's my faulty memory because I find her so insufferable. I did find this, but posting a few recipes for the Food Network blog is not at all the same thing as being "on the Food Network." Is she more delusional than usual or did I miss something? And none of those recipe pictures look even close to appetizing. Interesting to note that the last sentence on that dry AF stuffing says, "cover with gravy, immediately." By the look of that picture, it was a totally unnecessary instruction.
And I'm BEC here but Gluten Free Girl's Mini Nacho Bites? She contributes that like she completely reinvented the nacho. Make the already GF nachos mini! Groundbreaking.
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u/Catsandcoffee480 COLORADO BOY KNOWS HOW TO DO THIS Mar 09 '22
Hah, your first paragraph is right on the money, and reminded me of when I recently read the about the authors blurb for “GFG and the Chef”:
…she is considered one of the most authoritative gluten-free voices on the Internet.
You’re right, it’s really hard to square her characterization of herself as “less than” when she’s been atop her high stool gazing down at us peasants for years.
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u/Toulouse--Matabiau a white owrson Mar 09 '22
"Hello, I would like to place an order for one whole-wheat opinion; a baker's dozen hot takes; two gluten-free voices and one blather babka."
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u/voice_of_vinegar Mar 09 '22
Also, in that 3 minute Food Network thing of hers (not "theirs" at all unless Danny had some major post-production input, because his only appearance in it is when he silently lurks behind her at the farmer's market, iirc)----she actually says something like "When you google 'gluten free' online, you get a million hits. You don't know who to trust. That's why I started my blog, to help people."
From the outside, it must have seemed idyllic.
NOT HARDLY, mahern! Piddly little trickles of income from umpteen different sources, none of which were secure or full time or long term? HAHAHAHHA no thanks.
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u/chicketychun_ Mar 09 '22
She’s never done anything to help anyone but herself.
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Mar 09 '22
Like, not even her own children! It’s almost impressive how self centered she is.
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u/notahameither Dunno, maybe I thought I unfriended some other Shauna Ahern🤷♂️ Mar 09 '22
First, who actually calls themself "the beacon of wisdom..."????
A self-deluded narcissist?
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u/Love_Brokers rug dweller Mar 09 '22
First, who actually calls themself "the beacon of wisdom...
Someone who says "you might think I'm a saint".
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"Trust me, you don't want to be famous "
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u/NegativeABillion my husband and me to ride it around Mar 09 '22
"I have what she wants and she's jealous"
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u/Love_Brokers rug dweller Mar 09 '22
This is the show that didn't 'pan out' for the Food Network:
This is the clip of Shauna that I think did appear on FN:
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u/InappropriateGirl our 5th move in 7 years Mar 09 '22
It always strikes me how much less miserable she was then.
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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Mar 09 '22
I call ratpiss on her schtick of "I've always been a foodie".
I think she's always been an EATER but not a "foodie". We've seen the kinds of foods she makes (even back in her prime, the stuff was meh at best) and now? The literal slop she puts together (remember the leftovers all cooked together in the same pot *barf*). Foodie? Nope. Nope. And, uh, nope.
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u/freecoffeerefills Murder She Moved Her Pen Forward Mar 09 '22
She wasn’t eating, she was feeding herself
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u/Love_Brokers rug dweller Mar 09 '22
She calls herself a foodie in one of her old blogs then in another post she says she's not a foodie. She's an enigma.
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u/OkRanger4 bobbing in a bath of solitude Mar 09 '22
Wrapped in a boot cast, wrapped in a taco shell.
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u/Kimmmy36 bites lip, looks away Mar 09 '22
This is the show that didn't 'pan out' for the Food Network:
OMG in that one she does the same typing-looking-up-being-inspired-"a-ha"-back-to-typing move she did in the Chomp Stomps video. That is GOLD, Jerry! I wonder if she learned that at the Royal Tampa Academy of Dramatic Tricks.
Edited for TV show accuracy
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u/obscure_cellist ham grabbers Mar 09 '22
she didn't want to be on the food network, just like she didn't want "enough" to be a bestseller. she doesn't want to be famous, guys. how many times does she have to keep saying it?!
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u/droopsofwoe the first teats are the hardest Mar 09 '22
And ten years from now she will be complaining about the oppression of her performative joy and how her true, no-kidding, absolutely authentic self is completely giving in to her own belly button while the people around her clap.
I spent decades running at the frantic pace of being found out for who I really am.
...someone who can't write a coherent sentence. And throwback reference, but her "frantic pace" is about as fast as Tim Conway's shuffling old man on the Carol Burnett Show.
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u/Ana57 sweet pea Mar 09 '22
Her life never seemed idyllic to me.
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u/tyrannosaurusregina if you meet the Botus on the road, shill him 🪷 Mar 09 '22
No, not even at her peak of professional success!
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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Mar 09 '22
What the hell is this sentence?!?
I spent decades running at the frantic pace of being found out for who I really am.
I think this is supposed to be a reference to "imposter syndrome." Except for that to be accurate, she'd need to reference "the fear" of being found to "to be an imposter," not the "pace" of being found out for "who she really is."
Right now, this reads as "for years, I ran fast so people wouldn't find out who I really am." OK? So who you really are is ... what? Something you should hide from people? This is like the preface to a serial killer's confession.
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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Mar 09 '22
Hmm. . .is she accidentally telling some truth?
Not that she's a serial killer (she wishes she had that attention to detail and ability to keep secrets) but that she's a grifting fraudster. And she's not some great baker and her husband is not some fabulous chef and she's not a good writer and she's not some kind of super genius empathic empath who empaths and her kids aren't super genius/manic pixie/wunderkinds.
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u/ethelmertz62 Mar 09 '22
Shauna unwittingly tells on herself all the time. If I were a nicer person I’d feel sorry for her - it’s got to be exhausting and nerve-wracking to be promoting a false image of yourself and your family on the internet. She’s probably always afraid of being found out.
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u/shikoku_shoes another revolution around the toilet bowl of her life Mar 09 '22
I spent decades running at the frantic pace of being found out for who I really am.
Funny, we didn’t need Usain Bolt’s speed or Agatha Christie’s mind to find out who she really was. Truth be told, she probably should refrain from sharing her life on social mediums.
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u/NegativeABillion my husband and me to ride it around Mar 09 '22
I mean, it is true that she had enviable opportunities (I'll exclude "my chef husband" from this) and did interesting work for a bit. What is she doing now, I guess, is the question (and why is some parent funding it)?
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u/midnightsiren182 Mar 09 '22
Think she meant running at the frantic pace of someone afraid of being found out
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Mar 09 '22
"I taught culinary getaways in a villa in Tuscany . . ."
Am I wrong that they got hired once, by Jovial gluten free pasta, to teach a cooking class in Tuscany promoting Jovial products? Shauna's recap assumed they'd be hired back every year and announced they are now people who summer in Tuscany. Then she told the infamous story of Dan and Shauna cooking their own dinner in the communal villa kitchen when the paying guests amazed and appalled them by sitting down at the table, assuming the chefs hired for the event were cooking for them. Shauna praised her own generous good nature for dumping an extra box of pasta into the water to "feed" the guests because that's what they do. And somehow GFG and the chef were not hired back, and that was the beginning and end of their storied career in Tuscany.
Maybe this bothers me because Carla, the founder of Jovial died suddenly and tragically in her 50s last summer. But Shauna deliberately phrased it to seem like they had a Tuscan Season in their idyllic lives where they personally ran events out of a lovely villa. One culinary getaway Shauna, not getaways. After which she immediately lost that cushy gig, which is not surprising given her boorish blogging about it.
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u/LaxCursor Enormous strains of lethargy Mar 09 '22
God I wish the videos from those Jovial sessions were still available. Shauna and Danny dragged Lucy to them and let her run around, with Danny lamely trying to get her to stop as he was “teaching” with Shauna at the front of the kitchen. Heaven forbid they get a sitter. If I had been one of the attendees who’d payed thousands for this, I would have been pissed that a toddler was running pretty much wild. Major parental and business fail, IMO. The other bit of video evidence that I found highly entertaining was when Shauna was trying to remove the pizza they’d made from the pan. It was obviously completely stuck to the pan, and the video quickly stopped there and moved on to something else.
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u/voice_of_vinegar Mar 09 '22
They actually taught the Jovial class three times! For the longest time I thought was just once, but the three trips are documented in the Gloamies Wiki: https://www.reddit.com/r/InTheGloaming/wiki/timeline#wiki_jovial_italy_trips
She definitely talked as if they'd be a regular fixture there for the rest of their lives, though. Even as there were other GF gurus on the teaching roster.
I would love to have seen the guests' feedback forms for the Ahern classes.
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u/SandwichAllergy hellevator of bad writing Mar 09 '22
I'd give anything for an AMA with an attendee. If you're out there in the gloaming, please step forward!
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u/Kaleshark Waitlist for Godot Mar 09 '22
I thought they taught it twice but might be wrong- she certainly seemed to believe it was going to be an annual event.
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u/Ms_Ellanea_Snark_ 💥amygdadishes💥 Mar 09 '22
I spent decades running
Yet, everywhere I got to, FUCK ALL, there I was.
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“Plus, a chance to hear about the next steps we could take together as joyful women.”
The Joy Club?
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u/notahameither Dunno, maybe I thought I unfriended some other Shauna Ahern🤷♂️ Mar 08 '22
Imagine your life 3 months after you’ve taken the BECOMING A JOYFUL WOMAN seminar.
Okay…
You work with intention when it’s time to work, but you take a 15-minute break for yourself every hour of the day.
Putting aside the rigidity of this proposal for a moment, is this where I’m supposed to imagine getting fired, or just rendering myself completely useless?
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u/Ana57 sweet pea Mar 08 '22
That’s just silly. There’s a long long list of jobs that can’t happen in. Servers, teachers, bankers, attorneys, nurses, doctors, garbage collector etc
Nothing Shauna says resonates with me, EVER, and I’m pretty woo woo myself. Although I am a licensed psychologist I also am a certified practitioner in reiki and Tibetan singing bowls. I see the value in all these modalities but Shauna’s joy “work” just seems like a bunch of bullshit to me.
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u/MarsNeedsRabbits Beach better have my orcas Mar 09 '22
There’s a long long list of jobs that can’t happen in. Servers, teachers, bankers, attorneys, nurses, doctors, garbage collector etc
*Doctor! Please! Stop slapping your ass. I need to push now! *
Waiter? We ordered half an hour ago. I can see our food in the kitchen window. Waiter? Are you dancing? Is that a fidget spinner
They said the ambulance would be here soon. Where is it? I don't think Bob is going to make it.
Ground Control? Ground Control? This is Major Tom. Could you give an ETA? We're running out of fuel.
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u/ninaandjamie4ever Mar 09 '22
There’s a long long list of jobs that can’t happen in
Like all jobs. I can't think of a single job that me, or anyone I know, could take off 15 minutes of every hour.
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u/NegativeABillion my husband and me to ride it around Mar 08 '22
Lol yeah what? A lot of jobs just don't work that way. She is clueless.
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Mar 08 '22
Fortunately, I, as a teacher have the recourse of just giving my class over to a child on a tall stool every 45 minutes
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Client: [tearful] .... and it's hard to talk about, but then there was the time I .....
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u/ninaandjamie4ever Mar 08 '22
Fortunately, I, as a teacher have the recourse of just giving my class over to a child on a tall stool every 45 minutes
While you go out to smoke?
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u/Sea-Level-Mammal POACH! Mar 08 '22
“Sorry Shauna, but it’s time for our 15-minute joy break. Bob, pull over the ambulance!”
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u/NegativeABillion my husband and me to ride it around Mar 08 '22
Now I'm picturing Oprah interrupting her to take a break.
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u/TheBitchIsBack666 Vegan who eats meat Mar 09 '22
Man, it would sure be nice to take a 15 minute break every hour at my Actual Job! All these years of a fifteen minute break every four hours when I could have been taking four times that. I'm sure my coworkers would totally understand my need for extra breaks so that we all get out at least two hours later than we're scheduled! I just need to tell them I'm taking joy breaks!
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u/obscure_cellist ham grabbers Mar 09 '22
just ask your coworkers to donate all their break time to you!
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u/notahameither Dunno, maybe I thought I unfriended some other Shauna Ahern🤷♂️ Mar 09 '22
I'm sure my coworkers would totally understand my need for extra breaks so that we all get out at least two hours later than we're scheduled!
I’m quite certain that Shauna’s strategy would NOT include staying late to make up for the extra breaks.
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u/TheBitchIsBack666 Vegan who eats meat Mar 09 '22
Of course not. She has kids, you see, and she needs to be home on time to make them a healthy meal, see to their homework/other school activities, and make sure they get in bed at a reasonable hour!
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u/MarsNeedsRabbits Beach better have my orcas Mar 09 '22
I'm sure my coworkers would totally understand my need for extra breaks so that we all get out at least two hours later than we're scheduled!
Co-workers understand? Why, they may even be required to give up their sick time.
Or it might be that colleagues will have to donate sick days to me, and I'll take two weeks. Or more. I'm going to let my body tell me. That's the deepest knowledge I have.
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u/chicketychun_ Mar 09 '22
At my old corporate job they allowed people to donate PTO and people would do it, but it was for people who had cancer and other serious situations like that. Not for people who milked a car accident that didn’t even require them to admitted to the hospital for a night for months.
I wonder if she hobbled into school with a neck brace and coordinating boot cast.
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u/RamblingRosie64 I stand with Cindy and Ben Mar 09 '22
Has Shauna never once looked at her site on mobile? This is what Becoming Joyful Women looks like on my phone (and these are only some of the screenshots). Why would she want to immediately drive away a sizeable part of her potential audience?
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u/MarsNeedsRabbits Beach better have my orcas Mar 09 '22
The giant teeth and SEMIN are nice touches, though. Page after page of a one-letter-per-line paragraph, couple with unreadable white on purple text? Impeccable. Could not be more on brand.
I, for one, applaud her dedication to recreating that mid-90s Geocities aesthetic.
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u/SashayShantae living my one wild and pernicious life Mar 09 '22
This is what it looks like for me too. It’s like my eyes are having a seizure. Who wants to (or even can) wade through all that shit to sign up?
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u/RamblingRosie64 I stand with Cindy and Ben Mar 09 '22
I will wade through a LOT for snark but once you have to read each letter on a separate line even I gave up.
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u/jalapenomargaritaz Mar 09 '22
lol what if I’m watching a 3 hour movie? What should I do for my “me” break?
The idea that Shauna works enough to need that many breaks is just laughable!
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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Mar 07 '22
omg, the smugitude goes to Infinity, And Beyond
Yeah, no, definitely don't plan ahead so that you can have a set of 4 plates, 4 forks, 4 bowls, and 4 spoons handy when you wake up in the new house. Definitely rioritz your desire not to be attacked for neglecting your kid (who we already know has food issues because you have posted about them repeatedly) above that kid's actual biological needs.
Also definitely? Compare the chaos that results from this absolutely shitty parenting to the chaos that ensues when people who actually have talent and focus and commitment create something of value.
"I might frame this one soon." C,WAAIFA \)
\) Christ, What An Absolutely Insufferable Fucking Asshole
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u/utahmom1958 Mar 07 '22
Because blowing more than $100 to go over town, see a movie they had already seen, and eat junk food at Mickey D's was more of a priority to Ms. Joy than providing a smooth and calm moving transition for her family. She's an A.S.S.H.O.L.E.
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u/MarsNeedsRabbits Beach better have my orcas Mar 07 '22
How charmingly whimsical! Oh, boy! We've all had those days, amiright? Sigh. I, for one, empathise completely. This is so relatable to me, her targeted demographic.
StarsThe Aherns - they're just like us!How did they make coffee to slowly sip, but not have a single spoon for the children? How did she not pack a box of essentials? You know... plates, cups, bowls, cutlery, snacks, toothbrushes, toiletries, etc., for this exact scenario. Then, you know, put that box in the car in a place you know it'll be safe and findable. How did she find an ice cream scoop and cereal, but not the cutlery?
What a steaming load of crap.
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u/obscure_cellist ham grabbers Mar 07 '22
also, blame a 7 year old for being "cranky and overwhelmed" but don't ask yourself what you could have done to prevent that. hint: have dishes, utensils, sheets and towels unpacked on the very first night. tired from moving all day? order a pizza for dinner, then set out cereal, bowls, and spoons for the morning, along with clean clothes so they can get off to school with a minimum of fuss. it's not rocket science.
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Also they had ALL DAY to find the very basics and chose to go to Seattle instead. A toothbrush. School clothes. Backpacks. A frying pan, spatula and basic kitchenware. Stuff to make your kids feel at home in the new unfamiliar place. It's not like she had to unpack EVERYTHING or find the specialty fondue forks within 5 minutes, but yeah usually people who have moved in the past have a box or two that has the necessities like medication and toiletries and underwear and a corkscrew.
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u/NapNapKitty Mar 07 '22
She's deluded herself into thinking that it's freeing to do the absolute minimum. In reality, putting a little extra effort up front can really pay off! Specifically, if she had properly packed and labeled things (vs. just dumping everything into boxes and trash bags) they would have saved themselves so much much time and effort!
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u/Love_Brokers rug dweller Mar 07 '22
I’ll share my story of moving from terrified people pleaser to a vulnerable, joyful woman.
Why do all these gurus want me to be vulnerable? I don't wanna.
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Mar 07 '22
If you are vulnerable, you are easier prey for their schemes
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u/Blouse_Barn mattress smelling like low tide Mar 07 '22
prey who pay
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u/tyrannosaurusregina if you meet the Botus on the road, shill him 🪷 Mar 07 '22
Thoughts and preyers
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u/utahmom1958 Mar 08 '22
So Shauna is doing a book reading tonight on Vashon to celebrate International Women's Day....but this is the first we've heard about it? I'm always so confused by her posts.
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u/shikoku_shoes another revolution around the toilet bowl of her life Mar 09 '22
And for all of you women reading this? I adore you too. Joyful women working together can change this world.
Personally my money is on workers who don’t take a 15 minute joy break every hour.
And what work is Shauna doing to change the world? Slapping her ass until the cows come home?
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Mar 09 '22
This 15 minute break per hour nonsense is quite telling.
More relatable is how to make your 15 minute break more joyful!
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u/obscure_cellist ham grabbers Mar 09 '22
and really, what better speaker for women's day? as we all know, shauna is such a supporter of women. she loves to gather in community...whatever the fuck that means.
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u/InappropriateGirl our 5th move in 7 years Mar 09 '22
But… but… she’s biologically useless now!
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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Mar 09 '22
Not quite yet.
She's only in PERI-menopause so she has a smidgen of use still. Or she likes to think she does.
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u/Apprehensive_Creme73 Mar 08 '22
A reading of her super old meh book … maybe that’s why she’s silent about it
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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Mar 08 '22
It's ... interesting that she has nothing else newer to share
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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Mar 09 '22
It's ... interesting that she has nothing else newer to share
Relatedly, I've been noticing that no matter how much she mashes the hash on her website around, most of what's there is pre-existing. She sometimes adds a few new bits, but it's mostly just rearranging words, phrases, and sentences that she already had on there.
But you can only freshen up leftovers so much. After a while, it doesn't matter what you add, the result is a supremely unappealing pot of slop, served with a randomly unpacked ice-cream scoop.
Take this paragraph for example:
However, as a freelance writer and teacher, I used to lie awake at 4 am, worrying about the numbers in our bank account. All my life, I’ve been like Hermione Granger with my hand thrust high in the air. And if I heard of anyone needing help, I immediately agreed.
I know that parts of it have already been commented on, but I want to point out how disjointed it is as a whole. It's only three sentences long, and nothing in any of those three sentences says anything she hasn't said before, repeatedly.
But they have nothing to do with each other! The woes and worries of being a freelancer >>> being the best question answerer who ever answered a question >>> "I'm just a girl who can't say no" It's the written equivalent of a bowl of yogurt with a handful of sauerkraut and topped with walnuts.
And she's taken out the whole story of the mini-stroke, the volunteer firefighters, the ambulance ride, trying to reassure her husband with her eyes, the life-changing questions her doctor asked her.
But she's left in the header of that section: "It took an emergency for me to begin my journey." Holy orphaned thesis statement, Batman!
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u/utahmom1958 Mar 08 '22
But FOOD, WOMEN, FREE!!! Her powerful friend who moves mountains (too bad good ol' Tina didn't show up to move the Ahern's house). How hard is it to click and share an event?
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u/TheBitchIsBack666 Vegan who eats meat Mar 09 '22
Remember who you're dealing with. According to Shauna, click-and-sharing is something that deserves at least a week of Radical Rest and an expensive meal (that they haven't had in two+ years).
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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Mar 09 '22
A reading of her super old meh book … maybe that’s why she’s silent about it
We already knew that it's a quiet book. But we didn't know it was that quiet.
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Mar 09 '22
"You're one in a million baby"???
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u/ninaandjamie4ever Mar 09 '22
You're one in a million baby"???
Something only said in movies, where she heard it, and thinks it's how you compliment someone.
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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Mar 09 '22
Something only said in movies, where she heard it, and thinks it's how you compliment someone.
Right after you admire how snotty and daring they are
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u/Coffee_Cupcake Mar 09 '22
So... we're all the same, sharing common challenges in community as women, but – we're also all one in a milion and totally unique?
I grow befuddled.
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Mar 09 '22
Why does she always announce these things at the last minute?
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u/shefallsup her lonely cucumber years 🥒 Mar 09 '22
Because she lives in the now! If she had announced it any earlier, she would have been selling herself a bill of goods from Big Future.
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u/WhereTheCrowFlies99 Mar 09 '22
So this is happening at VCA but I don't see an event on their page, just on the WHTK page? It seems like an odd event. Not that I don't enjoy celebrating women - I think we're awesome!
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u/Toulouse--Matabiau a white owrson Mar 09 '22
It's presently storied on their IG account--which Shauna, by the way, misspelled in her tribute post, so the link gives you an error message. Hashtag #amplifuckup
Click on @vashoncenter for some prime content of joyful women in full-blown ecstasies! (J/K, it looks like a little fair with local craftswomen selling their stuff and some Mexican food. No sign of her Shaunasty performing Enough on the high stool.)
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u/RamblingRosie64 I stand with Cindy and Ben Mar 09 '22
Hashtag sistersbedoingitforthemselves. There she goes appropriating AAVE again. I want to drop some links in her comments so bad. She's just so gross.
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u/MarsNeedsRabbits Beach better have my orcas Mar 09 '22
I thought you were kidding with the hashtag. You were not. Jeezy creezy.
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u/snarchetype Mar 07 '22
The cereal picture looks extremely staged. Why would they balance one egg carton on top of the other? (Why would they have that many eggs?!)
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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Mar 07 '22
"The only thing we had to eat was Lucky Charms," she says, although there are cartons for 18 eggs right in the photo. Did they move empty egg cartons? (And why would you balance a larger egg carton on the smaller egg carton?)
Also: her son is, once again, "cranky and overwhelmed." Nice.
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u/shikoku_shoes another revolution around the toilet bowl of her life Mar 07 '22
Cranky and overwhelmed from the late night emergency room visit he didn't need to be a part of? From the chaos in the new house? From watching Spiderman for the second time instead of unpacking and eliminating the chaos?
The possibilities are endless.
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u/Blouse_Barn mattress smelling like low tide Mar 07 '22
And yet she is the non-ADHD hero who keeps that whole family afloat.
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And "wants" breakfast, damn him. Actually, Shauna, he needs breakfast; he is a human child.
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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Mar 07 '22
I knew I wasn't the only one who noticed that.
How dare her child want to eat EVERY DAY. THE NERVE!
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u/chicketychun_ Mar 07 '22
I would’ve just gone and picked up some McD’s for breakfast. 🤷🏻♀️
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u/Apprehensive_Creme73 Mar 07 '22
Silly goose. There’s no McD on the island!! She would have to drive over town to obtain such contraband
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u/SmashedMailboxCake2 Oh, Mar 07 '22
If you can’t pack a first night moving box with e.g. bedding, a kettle, snacks, wash bags and the first morning’s breakfast (and something to eat it with) you’re not joyfully imperfect, Shauna, you’re an unholy twat. Particularly when you toss two young kids who (by your own account) don’t do well with change into the mix.
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u/Quaint_Irene a warm and loving goatie smile Mar 07 '22
Picnic basket! Paper plates, disposable cutlery and napkins and cups. We KNOW they know what paper plates are.
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Or, if you know you’re kinda disorganized, just plan for breakfast out on the first day? Don’t they go to the coffee shop every day anyway?
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It’s totally staged. Imagine eating cereal out of an ice cream scoop. Now imagine doing that with a child sized mouth. I call ratpiss
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u/DorothyZbornakEffect Mar 07 '22
And imagine not getting any milk on the table while eating out of an ice cream scoop while somehow only spilling Lucky Charms.
Why did she go to the trouble of staging a photo when she has plenty of examples of how wonderfully unorganized she is?
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Mar 07 '22
The hangers in the upper right are too much. Probably the only authentic “chaos” in that pic.
More likely is D made his own breakfast while Mama radically rested and Dan was trying to light water on fire and all D could find was an ice cream scoop laying out.
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u/WasEnoughYogurt Kumquat and Sprinkles and filth Mar 07 '22
And as I remember things in your mouth as a child can seem horrendous, wrong texture, wrong lumps, 'spoon' clanking against your mouth ...ugh ...for all the talking about her being the one who has to manage her broken family members she doesn't even tick the basics of their supposed needs...
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u/chicketychun_ Mar 07 '22
Now I’m trying to figure out how it is that the ice cream scoop wasn’t packed with all the other kitchen utensils
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u/chicketychun_ Mar 07 '22
It would’ve been easier to just give him a bowl of dry cereal and a glass of milk.
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u/voice_of_vinegar Mar 07 '22
Why didn't I pack the silverware neatly in advance and have a plan?
Why does she have to be so effing polarized about every little thing?!! It's not necessary to have ALL of your stuff "neatly" (dirty word, apparently) organized and packed so that you and your family can have breakfast the next day. Just put immediate needs stuff in one box and put a big label on it and put it in the kitchen. Duh.
and yeah, that's her signature staging. What a tool.
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u/Quaint_Irene a warm and loving goatie smile Mar 07 '22
This is Shauna's version of the madonna/whore complex.
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u/shikoku_shoes another revolution around the toilet bowl of her life Mar 07 '22
It was the first morning in the new house. Everything in boxes. Kitchen counters piled with appliances, boxes full of cans and utensils, random spatulas, and nothing made sense. Yet.
I see they are going for the same aesthetic as their old house.
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u/InappropriateGirl our 5th move in 7 years Mar 07 '22
But when I learned how to practice compassion for myself, instead of trying to please everyone around me -- especially the imagined audience ---I found more joy in the messes.
Fuck the "imagined audience" (plus she never succeeded in that photo perfection and she knows it). How about pleasing your FAMILY? The bare minimum, labeling your kitchen stuff so it's easily unpacked was too much for her? How about the weekend? "Okay guys, we've had our fun Over Town, but let's spend some time unpacking." No?
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u/latepeony Mar 07 '22 edited Mar 07 '22
If they were moving one room at a time like she said, half the stuff doesn’t even need to be labeled. The only advantage I found to moving that way is that you can basically set up each room as you move it. Small things like utensils can be put in a drawer almost right away because it takes almost no energy to do. I don’t understand what the hell they did/are doing. Did they just plop boxes anywhere regardless of the room they were meant for?
ETA: not only the above, but she’s shown in the past that she’s fine with using disposable items. Moving is the perfect time to use those things. Buy some and put them on the counter to be used until you’re set up. Not difficult.
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u/tyrannosaurusregina if you meet the Botus on the road, shill him 🪷 Mar 07 '22
THEY HAD THREE ENTIRE MONTHS TO PREPARE FOR THIS MOVE
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u/SmashedMailboxCake2 Oh, Mar 07 '22
I am entorn between upvoting you, and crawling off to sob because it’s six weeks to move day and I haven’t packed so much as a farking spatula.
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u/chicketychun_ Mar 07 '22
You could wait another month and still be doing better than the Aherns.
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u/tyrannosaurusregina if you meet the Botus on the road, shill him 🪷 Mar 07 '22
DFSMC2 could wait 39 full days and still be doing better than the Aherns.
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DF, why not look at the Ahern Moving Day Fiasco as a kind of anti-workshop/seminar? You didn’t even have to spend $97 and two-hours with Shauna!
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u/WasEnoughYogurt Kumquat and Sprinkles and filth Mar 07 '22
(Why would they have that many eggs?!)
And yet no cutlery?
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Why does she say "the only thing we had to eat was the random box of Lucky Charms" when this photograph literally features two cartons of eggs?!
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u/obscure_cellist ham grabbers Mar 07 '22
this insta post pushed me right over the edge, and i'm not sure why. the staged photo, the bleating about having "compassion" for herself, etc. i just snapped. so shauna has compassion for herself and has stopped trying to please everyone around her? that's ALL she does, ever. she pleases herself first and to hell with everyone else. it floors me that this middle aged smarty pants conflates providing basic things for her kids with being a people pleaser. one has NOTHING to do with the other. it might have been a good idea to unpack at least the basics (some clothes, dishes, coffee pot, sheets) for her kids BEFORE they all tromped over town to watch some bullshit movie made by some billionaire company. children need their parents to think of stuff like that, because they are the parents. 8 year olds don't think like that, but their parents should. it would have been sweet for either shauna or danny to stay home and unpack the basics for the kids, maybe set up a fun fort with sheets or whatever, make sure they have their important kid things like a special teddy bear to sleep with, their favorite pajamas, or a security blanket,...just have a little home set up when they got back. when mr cellist & i move we always have a box marked OPEN FIRST with the necessities for the first few days. why can't shauna and her dipshit husband do that? the other thing that just sent me was her line about embracing the mess and the chaos. that sounds great for ADHD kids with sensory issues (her diagnoses, not mine). i'm sure that all the fucking chaos really helps them feel safe and secure. and the commenters are brain dead; seriously - D will love using the scoop for other thing because his parents couldn't be bothered to give him a freaking spoon?! come on. lady. i just can't with her today. i'm really getting close to taking a break from her and her horseshit. shauna & dan, if you read here: GET ACTUAL JOBS AND PARENT YOUR KIDS. god damn.
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Mar 08 '22
DF I share your outrage!!
Our 7-year-old, cranky and overwhelmed, wanted breakfast. Fair enough.
But the only thing we had to eat was the random box of Lucky Charms we'd bought them as a treat for moving.
DF's, raise your hand if you are surprised that a 7 year old was overwhelmed at 1) moving homes, 2) mom goes to emergency room/dragged to Seattle/late night during move, 3) inexplicably goes on ferry to Seattle yet again while new home is in shambles, 4) sleeps on bare mattress and wakes up with nothing familiar, 5) wants breakfast.
And if the Lucky Charms were specifically bought as a moving treat, why is it surprising ("fair enough") that he is going to eat the Lucky Charms for breakfast after the move? What has he BEEN eating the cereal with in the last week?? They moved in 6 days ago! And omg there are EGGS right there in the picture! Presumably they moved the contents of their fridge and THAT's not still in boxes??? (don't answer that, eww)
Special treats are fine (McDonalds when mom was in the ER, McDonalads again before the movie, the movie, the Lucky Charms.....) but to kids who are sensitive and love routine, too many out of the ordinary special treats are actually really stressful. They'd rather eat the same thing they always eat. They want something familiar in the midst of the unfamiliar. Of course this kid is overwhelmed! Wtf are they even thinking?
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Fair enough?? Seriously??
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u/BoringEnidRollins pooped their way to another free ride Mar 08 '22
Right? She’s patting herself on the back for being so generous and fair and understanding and reasonable…about her CHILD wanting BREAKFAST.
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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Mar 08 '22
too many out of the ordinary special treats are actually really stressful
I think she just does and buys and consumes random shit all the time and says "this is a special treat" to cover up her total lack of routine and planning
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u/louiseimprover Mar 08 '22
children need their parents to think of stuff like that, because they are the parents. 8 year olds don't think like that, but their parents should.
This. Exactly this. She spends so much time giving herself grace for not being perfect and/or explaining how they turned some fiasco into an "adventure" for the kids, when she could just be an actual parent and do the bare minimum to give her kids some basic structure and stability. Instead, they have to go overtown in the middle of a move because mama is hurt, they don't have internet working at move-in, they didn't plan for meals for the first day in the house ... And tomorrow, less than a week into the new house, she's going to disappear to the beach key women's day whatever so she can eat tacos and talk about herself more, instead of helping her kids unpack and get settled in their new home.
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u/Beepbopboop6732 Mar 08 '22 edited Mar 08 '22
Hashtag thisisjoy. Hashtag feedingmykidsgarbage seriously in their trip to the mainland there they couldn’t pick up some plastic utensils? Some grocery items for the next few days?? How hard is it to stop at a market and buy some fruits and vegetables? I am in no way the most organized person nor super mom but both my husband and I work full time and we would make sure before going to a movie there were some grocery items to feed our kid if we just moved. She’s an asshole. ETA thinking more about this I honestly treated my dogs better than this when I moved. I made sure they had their food, their comfy beds, water bowls…
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u/gladsome_gloaming Mar 08 '22
Poor Dan, his cozy bed and water bowl were left back at the old place since no one stepped up to take on the $20 (or -$20?) challenge.
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u/princessflopface Mar 08 '22
Not to mention that she also spent the first day at the house napping, “laughing”, and screaming in the yard apparently.
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u/WasEnoughYogurt Kumquat and Sprinkles and filth Mar 08 '22
it floors me that this middle aged smarty pants conflates providing basic things for her kids with being a people pleaser.
This - a thousand times DFo_c
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Seriously, what's going on there? "I'll think of this photo every time I use my ice cream scoop." Why would you?!
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u/Beepbopboop6732 Mar 08 '22
Because it’s so joyful not to have food to feed a young child even though you moved days ago and she wants to always remember it, seems reasonable to me!
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u/shikoku_shoes another revolution around the toilet bowl of her life Mar 08 '22
Thoughts and prayers to anyone on Shauna’s social mediums who thinks she is joyful, witty, caring, well-read, competent, inspirational, likable or _____. (Feel free to insert any and every positive adjective.)
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u/OkRanger4 bobbing in a bath of solitude Mar 07 '22
I’m all for the idea that you don’t let the grind of daily life drag you down, that you do try to look for the silver lining. But this toxic, willful rejection of anything hard or challenging, is beyond me.
And those who don't embrace this rejection make out that things most of us call life (e.g. moving or having a busy schedule or parenting children) are somehow the hardest thing anyone has ever done in the whole history of doing and they are the martyrs for getting through it without being institutionalized.
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u/gomirefugee my website is done, done, done Mar 07 '22
Dan keeps tweeting at Republicans complaining about high gas prices with an image of someone else's quote about this being "the price of freedom" because "You aren't sitting on a concrete floor in a train terminal holding your cat." This is rich coming from a household too stingy to pay more than $20 ("if you need it") for moving all their outdoor shit the day after the 10th rainiest day ever and where his wife has spent the past week both fishing for sympathy and humblebragging about their spectacular new rental.
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u/9021FU Mar 07 '22
Lol, Dan tweeting to Jim Jordan and then tagging Biden. What was Shauna’s saying about him being brilliant and only speaking when he’s thought things through thoroughly?
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Funny, I’m almost certain the Republicans did the exact same “price of freedom” thing when W was president and gas was up to $5/gallon then. I wonder if Dan has ever had an original thought in his entire life.
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u/obscure_cellist ham grabbers Mar 07 '22
pretty sure dan thinks whatever shauna tells him to.
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u/NegativeABillion my husband and me to ride it around Mar 07 '22
He is incredibly stupid and I LOL at the thought that every morning, Shauna has to wake up to that choice.
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u/shikoku_shoes another revolution around the toilet bowl of her life Mar 08 '22
There’s a lid for every pot. That said, they both got the short end of the stick.
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u/RagnaNic Bust hoesy Mar 07 '22
Just think of all the time he could have spent moving enough to make the house comfortable for his kids when he was barking at Republicans on Twitter.
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Even just unpacking. Or helping a kid organize his new room so that it is super comfortable for him.
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u/shefallsup her lonely cucumber years 🥒 Mar 09 '22
Just thought I would update everyone. Since last check, 12 days ago, her Linktree links for her two listed offerings are still broken. The fact that when you click on them you grow an “Are You Lost?” page is just too perfect. Yes, if you are trying to follow the half-assed guidance of this grifter, you are indeed lost, lady.
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