leave us alone

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but for the past four years (at least), a lot of promotion and marketing is based on fear by comparing two different products, opinions, or services, and basically making it black vs white. 

I’m sick of it. 

Why?

1. I experience anxiety, so promoting fear to people that deal with anxiety is the worst thing ever. As a customer I will never follow someone that uses fear to sell their services or products.

2. This way of promoting and marketing is bullshit! For instance, if you want to sell Gua Sha Facial, you are going to say that injections are dangerous. If you want to sell the Medical Medium protocol, you are going to demonize chocolate, cheese and pasta. If you want to sell us a gym membership you are going to make us feel lazy. If you want to sell us a healing journey, some therapists are going to promote that their method is the best one and the other ones are crap!  And let me not start on being a mother. If you don’t have a natural birth, your newborn is not going to get the right fluid and cells that happens through vaginal birth. The same for breastfeeding and not using formula. The list goes on. My question is: Why do you care so much about our lives and not yours?

Life is hard enough without being constantly reminded to fear our decisions and doubt ourselves. In the end we are being sold something that we did not need. Because guess what? Fear is the best way to manipulate us and make us believe that our intuition and free will is not enough. 

Using myself as an example of following my intuition instead of what was being promoted:

The Medical Medium Protocol made me sick. I'm not saying that his protocol sucks, not at all. I am saying that my body and my self is not made for Medical Medium. Period. Next. 

Cardio exercise and/or High Intensity workouts only gave me more cortisol and zero results I expected. Again, nothing wrong with that type of workout but for my body, Pilates and Strength training for me, are more efficient. Period. Next.

In terms of beauty, I love Gua Sha and holistic skin care products, and I also love my dermatologist. Period. Next. 

You get the idea.

As a therapist, I’ve never promoted my business based on fears. I believe we are all in this together and maybe it sounds like the world of a Care Bears, but I think there is more than enough room for all of us. The ones who provide an offering with ethics and deep mindfulness will not need to use fear, guilt, or threats to grow a business. That's called manipulation and so again, our freedom of thinking is at stake. 

Do you. Feel you. You know what’s best for you. You know what makes you feel good. So, spend less time on social media where it is no longer an app to connect anymore but to sell you any type of shit that you never thought you would need. Go back to your foundation, your basics, what works for you as your own person. 

Choose yourself over fear. 

With love, 

Marine Selenee