Whose side are you on?

Are we really picking sides?

Well getting blocked on Instagram this last week by House In Habit (Jessica Reed Krause) got me thinking. Overthinking too. Why was I blocked? I wish I could tell you. Honestly, I thought of every possible reason and had no choice but to draw my own conclusions.

1. I was collateral damage (I still follow

   Emilie Hagen
   and Denise on Instagram).

2. I did a poll (hearing whispers on this topic) because I have a lot of followers who subscribed to HIH asking if they are still invested in her stories or if they find them to be boring since Trumps inauguration (the results - over 90% found her stories to be boring currently).

3. I shared

   Emilie Hagen
   Substack story, The Death of Luxury Fashion on my Instagram story and said I really liked it.

4. Maybe, just maybe, HIH looked at the likes on Denise’s, Emilie’s or Candace’s Instagram and blocked all of those people🤪

5. I reposted Denise’s response to Jessica’s Substack Chat that was very ugly where Jessica made some horrible comments about a friendship of 14 years publicly.

I found out I was blocked

because my followers were sending me an HIH story and it wouldn’t open. My followers send me peoples stories all the time, this is not unusual at all. Whether it’s health tips, current events, or breaking news. When I couldn’t see what was being sent, I typed in HIH and that is when I realized I had been blocked. I wrote back to one of my followers and said “I’ve been blocked”

I was pretty surprised. I had followed her for about 6 years, even bought her merch and had never talked badly about her. I did have opinions. Curiosities. But according to Jessica, curiosity is not a crime.

What really bugged me was the text on the photo & the emoji 🫢 (I take it as laughing in a mean girl way)

Goodnight Patriots!

I do not think (in my opinion) she means that sincerely at all. I think it's a weird dig and here is why I took it personal.

First of all, I come from a family of veterans. My grandpa, My uncle and my brother. I am a Gold Star sister. My family is very patriotic. Secondly, I have been researching and uncovering real issues in our health for over 10 years. I have been fighting for medical freedom and talking about this for a very long time. I love America. I am a patriot. 🇺🇸 Her “Goodnight Patriots” seems like a dig to the patriots she was blocking, most who have been fighting for America when she was still a democrat. The ones who embraced her and shared her substack, subscribed to it and bought her merch.

Everyone who follows HIH, Emily, Denise and Candace Owens knows a bunch of drama went down a few weeks ago. Many of us were following all of these women and were invested in really making America healthy again and creating a better future for our families. Watching it all unfold was wild. Many of my followers were messaging me and surprised by the mud being slung back and forth between Candace and Jessica. If you are reading this and have no idea what I am talking about you can see Candace talking about it HERE and HERE

I was following all the women and was seeing the different stories each one was sharing. Yes, it was a talking point on my Instagram stories because I share my daily life and I share a lot of the DM’s (anonymously) that I get daily.

I was not bashing any of these women at all. I gave my thoughts and I asked my followers theirs as well. So as a subscriber and follower of Jessica’s I was very surprised I was blocked. I felt expendable and I felt betrayed in a weird way. I had often shared HIH to my followers and she had even reposted me several times on her instagram. So what went wrong?

I started thinking about all of it and how I was seeing this mean behavior coming from both Jessica and Candace and it was driving clicks and views. Then someone sent me a Instagram page called House in Horrors, a page dedicated to talking badly about HIH. The page is gross and should give you the ick real quick. What type of person creates a page that attacks someone over and over? A hate page is not a vibe. Nothing warrants this type of behavior.

All of this behavior coming from Candace, Jessica, and the House in Horrors pages are not what I was hoping when the MAHA movement began. I was following RFK for years. He entered my radar years ago because of his work with vaccine injured children. As someone who survived TDaP and medical injuries in my own family and know other vaccine injured children, RFK was making a difference.

So how the hell did we get here?

It really saddens me that women who can really make a difference have become so competitive and mean. Cutting each other down, making fun of women and digging up everything they can on them to ruin them. When Jessica started posting that others were copying her, I didn’t like it. It felt high school and I said nothing to my followers but my followers were talking about it. It was not sitting well with them. It felt like Jessica was claiming all of her stories and coverage to be hers and hers alone. It became competitive.

As someone who has been fighting for truth and transparency for years, I do not feel the need to tear others down or worry that someone is writing about the same things as me. In fact, I WANT more women to stand up and shout about the atrocities that are happening to our kids and families.

Look, I do not know nor will I pretend to know what went down between many of these women (I have heard many versions), but I will say this, The MAHA movement has no room for bullies and bullshit. Moms want better. We want transparency. We want real studies, not sponsored ones. We want to decide what is best for our kids, not have government overreach. We want clean food, real healthcare, clean air, clean water, good education, and affordable living. Turning our cause into a PR stunt, cat fight, or money maker is hurting our cause. We are better than that.

At the end of the day, I am glad she blocked me. If I can’t honestly question what she reports or writes about or disagree with her, then curiosity is a crime to her and I don’t need to hear it on House in Habit.