Love this Katie, and beautifully written as ever. I’ve long had an issue with the idea of manifesting - largely because of the lack of recognition of privilege and victim blaming flip side you mention - but I also generally believe that’s “what’s for you won’t go by you” which I guess is it’s own form of magical thinking. So thank you for verbalising that dichotomy in such a thoughtful and nuanced way xx
i loved this piece. the whole ‘manifesting’ movement is so fascinating, but this made me feel so sad for alternative universe katie who might’ve blamed herself. i hope it encourages people to be careful with how much they rely on this to ‘help’ themselves, or it could just lead to so much more helplessness.
Love this Katie, and beautifully written as ever. I’ve long had an issue with the idea of manifesting - largely because of the lack of recognition of privilege and victim blaming flip side you mention - but I also generally believe that’s “what’s for you won’t go by you” which I guess is it’s own form of magical thinking. So thank you for verbalising that dichotomy in such a thoughtful and nuanced way xx
i loved this piece. the whole ‘manifesting’ movement is so fascinating, but this made me feel so sad for alternative universe katie who might’ve blamed herself. i hope it encourages people to be careful with how much they rely on this to ‘help’ themselves, or it could just lead to so much more helplessness.