whitney hedrick

Here goes nothing....

1 day ago | [YT] | 9

whitney hedrick

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about manipulation — how it works in abusive relationships, and how I’ve started to see the same patterns in politics. It’s personal, and not everyone will agree, but I think it needs to be said.
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Im nervous to do this..the video I made on this subject is ready to go and has been for a little while...Im starting to think I just need to rip the band-aid off and drop it today.
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Thoughts?

1 day ago | [YT] | 80

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Shared this very important story on IG yesterday...you guys please come follow me there if you wanna see more of me. I have videos scheduled to be filmed this week but I am in a bit of a lag due to some personal things going and. I have lots of announcements coming about how the content will go from here on out but I am ALWAYS on IG :) :)
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I was on a road trip recently with my baby in the backseat when I came to a bridge under construction. It rose high above a massive body of water, reduced to a single lane boxed in on both sides. The road was unbearably narrow, walled in by concrete and cones so close it felt like I couldn’t even breathe. Machinery hunched along the edges, patches of fresh repair marking the ground beneath me.

Everything around me declared “unfinished.” And yet, I was required to trust it—to believe that this narrow, imperfect bridge was enough to carry me across.

Once I was on the bridge, there was no turning back. I couldn’t stop. I couldn’t turn around. The only way through was forward. And fear pressed in as tightly as the walls on either side of me. My mind spun with every possible disaster, and that fear itself became a new kind of threat—threatening to make me lose focus, threatening to cause the very wreck I dreaded.

So I reached for the cross around my neck and whispered over and over: “God, be with me on this bridge.” The fear didn’t vanish completely, but the reminder that He is with me—at all times and in all places—gave me the clarity and focus not to surrender to panic. A wave of relief washed over me as I reached the end of the bridge and found myself safely on solid ground. Yet the prayer I whispered clung to me, echoing in my heart for days afterward.

Later, I understood why the moment had struck me so deeply.

The bridge was more than a bridge. It was a picture of life. The road isn’t always wide or welcoming. Sometimes it’s patched together, clearly still under repair. Everything in us says it’s not ready, not safe, not strong enough to hold.

The bridge before me was not the bridge I wanted, but it was the only way forward. And that is the truth about life: fear does not erase the necessity of crossing. The danger may feel real, the path may feel unfinished, but the call to move forward still stands. Fear cannot cancel purpose—it only tempts us to forget it.

Fear doesn’t widen the lane. Fear doesn’t stabilize the ground. Fear only blinds us, distracts us, and weakens us until we risk collapse. But faith—faith does what fear cannot. Faith steadies us. Faith reminds us that even on rickety ground, we are not alone. The God who commands the waters below is the same God who carries us safely across.

So my prayer is simple: may God be with us on this bridge. Whatever feels narrow, unfinished, or uncertain in our lives—it is still enough in His hands to carry us where He intends us to go. And I believe there is something better waiting on the other side.

May god be with us on this bridge.

1 week ago | [YT] | 49

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Just something that has been heavy on my mind/heart lately:

I studied manipulation to survive toxic people—only to realize the same tactics are running our culture at large.
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The media. The government. The culture.
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Most people can spot manipulation in a bad relationship. But they miss it when it’s happening to them from a screen. That’s how propaganda wins.
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Here’s how it shows up:
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GaslightingNot just lying—gaslighting dismantles your ability to trust reality itself. Redefine the obvious. Punish you if you resist. The unspoken script: “Are you going to believe me—or your lying eyes?” At scale, entire populations are told to doubt truths once universally understood. That confusion is deliberate.
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Smear CampaignsCancel culture thrives here. Lies stacked on half-truths until the truth is unrecognizable. If someone is truly guilty, the truth alone is enough. Lies only show up when the goal is to deceive, not reveal.
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Flying MonkeysFrom The Wizard of Oz. Manipulators hide while mobs swarm—shaming, threatening, coercing someone back into line. At scale: the online dogpile, the orchestrated outrage.
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Triangulation“Don’t listen to them, they’re hateful/crazy/dangerous.” This tactic blocks dialogue so truth can’t be compared. You’re kept fighting each other instead of noticing who’s pulling the strings.
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ProjectionAccusing you of the very thing they’re doing. Hard to catch at first, but once you see it, it’s everywhere. They confess by accusation.
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Fear + Threat CyclesLabel disagreement as hate. Call dissent violence. Convince you you’re surrounded by danger. Then sell themselves as the only protection. They invent the fire, then demand credit for being the extinguisher.
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IsolationThe oldest red flag: “Cut them off.” At scale, this looks like being told not to see your family over politics. Friendships discarded over opinions. And here’s the truth: isolation always breeds control. The fewer people you have reminding you what’s real, the easier you are to manage.
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👉 Learning to see these tactics may be the most important life skill on earth.

1 week ago | [YT] | 58

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My last video went up moments before Charlie Kirk’s murder. I haven’t promoted it, because my heart and mind have been elsewhere—on what this means for us. Returning to “business as usual” feels impossible. But I also know we can’t retreat. We have to keep speaking, keep sharing ideas that bring people closer to truth and purpose—because only then can our homes, our country, and our world improve. That is what my content is about now: showing truth, offering new perspectives for women, and helping them reclaim happiness in a culture determined to use them for its own gain.

My No-Buy Era exposed how the beauty community was designed to trap women in endless spending and loyalty to corporations and ill-intentioned influencers. My intentions were good, but I was diagnosing the problem through the wrong lens. What I see now is that the beauty industry has become an echo chamber—one that grows more insidious every year, generating staggering profits while feeding women a narrow vision of who they should be.

My High Maintenance Era was about teaching women to recognize toxic people, protect themselves from manipulation, and prioritize their well-being. The intentions were good, but the branding blurred the message—at first glance, it looked like just another “glow-up advice girlie” platform. What I didn’t emphasize enough was the next phase: the point of becoming “high maintenance” was never to stay stuck on the glow-up treadmill. It was to heal yourself so you could turn outward—to build, to nurture, and to help others.

This new era is about that next step. It’s built on everything I’ve learned over the past few years offline—distilling the strongest parts of my message and sharpening them. I have a bone to pick with the beauty industry, mainstream media’s obsession with dividing women from their families and each other, the health and food industries, and the lies that keep us stuck. But more than that, I want to show what comes after healing yourself: how women, as the creators and guardians of culture, can restore truth, stability, and joy to their families and communities.

If I ever wondered whether I should just keep my head down and post quiet, pretty homemaking videos, the past few weeks have answered that for me. I can’t stay out of this. Women are the ones who pass down values, guard what’s sacred, and decide what survives. History has always known this—the hand that rocks the cradle really does shape the world. And it’s time we start taking that role seriously.

But I also want to be clear: my heart has never changed. My content has always been about helping women. If you ever found me smart, refreshing, or ahead of the curve, that hasn’t gone away. The only difference now is that my head is clearer. My perspective is sharper. I am wiser and more informed than I was before. Even if what I say feels hard to hear at first, know that my heart is still in the same place—and I hope you’ll hear me out.

Because when women step into that next phase—moving from self-healing to healing the world around them—we don’t just change ourselves. We change everything.

In the meantime...here's the latest from me. I think my next video will be my testimony....stay tuned xo

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 68

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Per the empathy conversation that keeps going around there is a video in the comment section I would like you guys to check out but also...

Whether or not you agree with Charlie’s position on empathy (which he was 100% correct about—it’s being weaponized to silence people..its done in the macro and micro all the time. If you have been a part of or witnessed abuse you KNOW this is true), if you can’t muster basic empathy regardless of his stance, that says far more about you than it does about him. If empathy is a central tenet of how you claim to view the world, then the fact that it can be applied so selectively calls into question both your understanding of it and your actual access to it within yourself.

I’ve also listened to Charlie’s full position on empathy, and what’s being reported is a gross misrepresentation of his thesis. I encourage those of you who haven’t heard it for yourself to go and listen. Again—you don’t have to agree with him. I’m not saying that you must. But at the very least, understand the full context. Because, as always, context does matter.And this is the crux of my point. As I wrote yesterday, the extremism and the blindness to us becoming the very things we say we hate MUST be recognized. MUST be contended with. Because the moment we dehumanize others for disagreeing with us, we begin to lose our own humanity.

I’ve studied narcissism, abuse, and manipulation tactics for nearly a decade. It’s what I know best. And I’m telling you this: the moment you start justifying the very behaviors you claim to despise, one of two things is true—either your mind has been manipulated into defending evil, or you never hated those actions in the first place. You just wanted to be the only one allowed to use them.

2 weeks ago (edited) | [YT] | 102

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If this message offends or enrages you..go ahead and unfollow me now. Its not gonna get any better over here for you:

I spent years trying to make sense of the madness unfolding around me. As an elder millennial, I watched the world I grew up in—where disagreements ended in laughter—turn into a place where dissent meant exile, cancellation, and ridicule.

At first, I thought this was all new. I thought the chaos of our time was unique to our generation. But it isn’t.

When I finally came to Christ and read Ephesians 6:12, I realized I had stumbled onto the truth I had been circling for years: this battle is not new at all. Humanity has always fallen prey to the same pressures, the same manipulations, the same darkness. I just didn’t know Scripture had named it long before I ever did.

Like many, I thought I understood history. But what I knew were shallow, edited-down fragments—and a complete avoidance of other pivotal moments where destruction was the common thread. We’re constantly warned about “repeating history,” but only through this narrow lens. We’re shown what the villains looked like, but not how they gained power. Not how they convinced ordinary people to comply, or even to cheer them on.

When you’re only given fragments, you’re defenseless. You have no real tools to recognize evil when it rises again. So you default to judging by appearances—skin color, gender, political labels—while missing the deeper pattern. That is how manipulation thrives: by blinding you to the methods and distracting you with the mask.

And I fell for it too. I refused to listen to anyone outside my echo chamber. I preached openness while slamming the door on anyone who didn’t comply. The goalposts always moved, the problems were never solvable, and the louder I shouted, the emptier it all became. Instead of finding truth, I was becoming the very thing I thought I despised: intolerant, joyless, blind.

It wasn’t until I started watching debates and studying history, philosophy, economics, and world religions that the fog lifted. I realized I hadn’t been given truth at all. I’d been sold a bad bill of goods—false problems and fake solutions that collapsed the second they were questioned.

And that’s when I saw the larger pattern: extremists always look the same. It doesn’t matter what banner they wave. And just like in abusive households, it’s always the most unstable people who end up running the show. They thrive because the fearful and the willfully ignorant let them.

That’s what we are living through now: an abusive relationship. The abuser sets the terms. Controls the tone. Dictates what you can say, think, and even feel. And the rest of us—if we stay silent, if we keep excusing it—are complicit in the dysfunction.

History shows us this pattern with chilling clarity. In the French Revolution, the very courage and fire that won people favor at the beginning became the reason they were executed in the end. The new regime saw in them not allies, but potential rivals. What once made them useful now made them dangerous.

That is the nature of evil. It rewards you just long enough to use you, then punishes you for the very qualities it once celebrated. You must recognize the moment when the good you believe you are doing has slipped out of your hands and been taken over by darkness—because that darkness will not be any kinder to you than it was to the people you once considered enemies.

It’s time to wake up.

Violence is escalating. Its celebration is growing louder. This is what happens when evil is allowed to run unchecked. You don’t have to abandon your political views. But you must stop thinking in terms of left and right, and start seeing in terms of right and wrong. Because if you don’t, you won’t just lose the debate. You will lose yourself. Devoured and discarded by the very machine you pledged your life to feed.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 207

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I’ve never been a great KarJenner fan—Kendall in particular has always struck me as…fine, neutral—but credit where credit is due: this might be one of the most beautiful images I’ve seen in a magazine in years. It feels timeless, almost like it was lifted from a painting. Classic, unselfconscious, free.

What strikes me is how rare this feels. For so long, “beauty” in fashion and culture has been replaced with a celebration of the ugly. Not ugly in the honest, gritty, human sense—but ugly in the contrived sense. The kind of ugly that is marketed as edgy, intellectual, or boundary-pushing. Yet when everyone is chasing “different,” the result is sameness: a flaccid, modernist landscape of soulless, sterile aesthetics.

To anyone who looks at these things and finds them uninspired—or at the very least unpleasant to look at—the response is always the same: “You just don’t get it.” As if the only possible reason you could disagree is because you’re too dull to grasp their “point.”

Fashion magazines are famous for this sleight of hand—peddling impractical, ridiculous things, deliberately stripping them of beauty, and then insisting that if we don’t applaud, the failure is ours.

And it isn’t just fashion. The modern art world has played this game for decades: celebrating the meaningless, elevating the ordinary, and using confusion itself as a kind of gatekeeping mechanism. A line gets drawn—those who nod along are “in,” those who question it are “out.”

And that’s really the point. The whole system runs on limited access and shifting goalposts. One of the quickest ways to prove you belong is to betray your own instincts—accepting something ugly as desirable simply because someone in authority declared it so

It’s the same impulse at work in so much of our cultural output. Movies and TV are either debaucherous simply for the sake of it, or else they lean on endless CGI and recycled intellectual property—soulless echoes of stories we’ve already seen. The artifice multiplies, and the humanity drains out.

Which is why an image like this feels so necessary. So much of what we’re shown today demands a kind of performance from us: to clap for what is hollow, to praise what is lifeless, to feign admiration for what gives us nothing in return. This doesn’t do that. It doesn’t ask you to contort your instincts. It simply offers. Wide skies. Nature. Beauty for beauty’s sake

And that’s the point I’ll be diving into more deeply in my next video: the shift in status symbols. For years, “high culture” was about flexing wealth, exclusivity, and ironic detachment. Now, more and more people are yearning for something older, simpler, truer. Less blue light. More blue yonder.

Can’t wait to talk through it with you all.

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