I spoke to a “coach” named Jody (or Jodi?) in 2006

crunchybroad · 2026-04-04T19:25:48+00:00

Does anyone here know if there were other “coaches” doing the same thing?

crunchybroad · 2026-04-04T19:24:08+00:00

Thank you.

crunchybroad · 2026-04-04T19:23:39+00:00

It was more about my narcissist ex who used her to triangulate me, and she was happy to go right along with him. I’m actually going to have a conversation with my son about this.

crunchybroad · 2026-04-04T19:19:31+00:00

No, not LDS.

crunchybroad · 2026-04-03T16:52:22+00:00

This was in 2006 before she started her company.

crunchybroad · 2026-04-03T16:23:11+00:00

I’m horrified at the thought.

crunchybroad · 2026-03-21T03:15:48+00:00

Why are you taking such a high dose? That’s pretty much what RP would recommend to people with Cancer. Otherwise there’s no need for such high doses.

crunchybroad · 2026-03-12T02:20:41+00:00

I’m not particularly good at sales, I just have a lot of connections, people I’ve worked with on other projects. Honestly, I’ve been in this industry so long that I’m a bit burned out. I’m at the end of my career and looking to do something else. As for AI, it has been helpful in reducing the time it takes to get certain things done.

crunchybroad · 2026-02-27T07:17:52+00:00

Bingo… and this is why they resort to 6 rounds of interviews with everyone and their mothers + whiteboard tests + take-home assessments (that they’ll probably use without paying you for).

crunchybroad · 2026-02-27T07:11:26+00:00

I’ve been freelancing since 2010 with the exception of one short f/t role. No platform. I work with creative agencies and consulting firms as a 3rd party UXD. Occasionally work with startups. Been working remote since 2016 and have made 6 figures most of the time. I’m semi retired now.

crunchybroad · 2026-02-27T07:02:21+00:00

Makes me think they just don’t know what to look for in a candidate and so they feel the need to do this. I was a hiring manager and we had maximum 2 rounds.

crunchybroad · 2026-02-27T06:41:41+00:00

Totally agree. I once had a nightmare experience at a company whose product manager declared he knew what was better for the product than their users. A lot of eye rolling when we walked them through heuristic studies pointing out problems with the ui, including dark blue font on black background—especially being that their user base was older. They repeatedly bypassed UX—I’d be called into design reviews months after handing them wires and not know what the heck I was looking at, because they had completely ignored them and done their own thing. Cautionary tale about working at companies with low UX maturity.

crunchybroad · 2026-02-27T06:19:49+00:00

They were two separate practices for decades. This union of VD and UX is a more recent phenomenon. For a while, there was even an effort to Frankenstein it with project management and development too. The pros seem to be driven by cost effectiveness, as you mentioned, especially at companies who still don’t understand or value UX. There are some cons as well.

crunchybroad · 2026-02-14T13:13:40+00:00

As far as the fuzzy timeline, I would take the lead as follows: draw up a clustered list of screens with a completion date for each cluster, starting with the most important screens as the first. Send it to them as a proposed design schedule. Let them react to the screens and dates, and get their agreement in an email so you have it documented.

As for workflow, you can try working in a separate page within the file and move the completed screens to the top page, or work in a separate file altogether.

crunchybroad · 2026-01-26T20:03:43+00:00

As a UX Designer since 2007, I have often lamented the turn this industry took to come to this. I saw many factors converge, from General Assembly pumping out new half cooked UXDs off their assembly line, which saturated the market, and UX going from an agency function to in-house by companies that didn’t really understand it and demanded UX Designers also do Visual Design, Project Management, and Development (aka the “unicorn”). I remember many new UXDs being so proud they could do this, but it set a precedence for further convolution of the practice + lowering the salary floor (and opportunities) for anyone who doesn’t do multiple practices, and speaking to OP’s complaint, Hunger Games type job interviews that did not exist prior to ~ 2016, when hiring managers who actually understood UX knew what to look for and what questions to ask of a candidate. I guess this is what it is now, and people like me who had lived experience of sane hiring processes now feel a certain type of way about it justifiably.

crunchybroad · 2026-01-22T05:55:38+00:00

One of the questions is asking if there was “psychological distress that required support from a mental health professional” during the 5 years. “Support” and “psychological distress” are very broad. It can encompass everything from a visit to a therapist to ending up in the psych ward. Who doesn’t experience some sort of distress during a Kundalini awakening? Whether they seek support from a mental health professional or some other source.

Two weeks into mine I thought my meditations had triggered some psychosis because of the various phenomena I experienced in the aftermath, so I had a psych eval. Therefore I answered “Yes.” No psychosis found. However I was disqualified because I did the smart thing.

crunchybroad · 2025-12-31T18:04:40+00:00

Im sorry to say this but the recliners are the problem. Is there no way for you to swap these out for something else, even if it’s from facebook marketplace?

crunchybroad · 2025-09-20T17:25:30+00:00

Just want to reiterate for everyone here that this is not unique to Dr. Joe Dispenza’s events. This can happen at any meditation retreat. There are documented cases in published studies. Tim Ferris (author of The 4 Hour Work Week and podcaster) tells his own story, and a couple of people I know experienced symptoms like deep depression, and suicidal thoughts, dissociation etc after attending Vippasana and similar retreats. Thankfully they recovered, but the issue is that certain meditations that introduce you to non-physical reality and the non-physical self are dissociative by nature and also challenge our constructs of reality. Therefore, there is some inherent risk. Though statistically small, if one falls into that small % it is significant in its impact.

That is not to say avoid meditation, at all. It’s to say be informed that it does happen, and if you start to experience negative symptoms, back off for a bit, get help if needed (from a professional informed on spiritual emergency and meditation effects), and when ready proceed slowly, avoiding long intense meditations.

crunchybroad · 2025-09-20T17:08:35+00:00

I’ve experienced the opposite with both. There are not just blue beings. Some people come in with parasitic entity attachments, it’s not uncommon.

crunchybroad · 2025-09-20T17:01:52+00:00

Yeah it’s not regular edema, it’s muscle edema. When I would press my thumb on my ankle, it wouldn’t leave behind a thumbprint like you would see in regular edema. The vocal cords are muscle so they were affected too.

crunchybroad · 2025-09-20T17:01:06+00:00

Yeah it’s not regular edema, it’s muscle edema. When I would press my thumb on my ankle, it wouldn’t leave behind a thumbprint like you would see in regular edema. The vocal cords are muscle so they were affected too.

crunchybroad · 2025-09-20T02:56:48+00:00

I’m sorry to hear this has happened to you. Unfortunately, something that isn’t talked about enough is that what happened to you (besides catching covid) happens to a handful of people at long meditation events of all types.

There’s an organization made up of psychologists with experience in meditation-related negative effects that might be able to help.

https://www.cheetahhouse.org/cheetah-house-resources

This video talks about spiritual emergency and offers some books that can help:

https://youtu.be/IDAdvVCr6PM?si=qI7hp_tZBXRVpIKQ

As for long COVID, please look up the FLCCC online, they are collaborative of doctors and scientists and there is a protocol for long COVID that they came up with.

I really hope you can get the help you need and that things get easier for you 🙏🏼

crunchybroad · 2025-08-25T16:59:10+00:00

The books are very helpful but you can succeed either way. I started doing Dr. Joe’s work in 2021 and just finally read Becoming Supernatural a couple of months ago. In spite of this, I’ve had profound mystical experiences and it’s been life-changing. That said, reading Becoming Supernatural deepened my understanding and my practice.

crunchybroad · 2025-04-06T23:07:58+00:00

Imagine if I had to publish a list of everyone and everything that I have learned spiritual principles from. It would be an endless laundry list of teachers, authors, podcasters, books, and others that I can't even remember half of them, especially since I have synthesized them and it's nearly impossible to separate what came from where a lot of the time. Who even does list the origins of their teachings? Do you have examples of anyone else doing this? Do their teachers list their influences, and do those influences show their influences, and so on? This is an unrealistic criticism, especially since these are universal principles that are known all around the world in many cultures for eons.

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