Your honesty, Bethaney, and articulate reflections are refreshing and worth reading!! DO take the time "to honor the realness and limitations of the life unfolding within and around you." Come back when the time is right, and I look forward to that. And Kudos for stepping away a bit from Social Media...
Bethaney- thank you for sharing the burden that you were facing. I'm so very thankful you are connected to Holy Spirit's call to come away and spend time reorienting life and will be praying for you as you walk through this healing. Thank you for sharing the two descriptions of cocooning.
Bethaney, I'm SO excited for you. I checked out of Instagram for Lent last year and just...never went back. As an artist that was scary -- and yes, letting go instagram took away a lot of the "accountability" of needing to produce constantly so I could post -- but it has been the very best healing for the lies that that human-productivity machine told me. Just wait til you go on your first trip without Instagram... it is a whole new world!!
This spoke 👏🏼 to 👏🏼 my 👏🏼 soul! I too have found that I was actually very addicted to social media and used Instagram as a pacifier. I’ve deleted all social media from my phone and honestly, I feel depressed and lonely. Instagram certainly gave me a false feeling of “connection” but in the 2 weeks I’ve quit, I’m learning so much about being human again. Right now I’m coping with scrolling Substack but hey! The long form content is way better for my mental health, haha. Anyhow, I just came to say that I feel you. Instagram felt that way for me too. I was a “influencer” stuck at 4.4K and was just DONE.
"May you have the courage to opt-out of whatever feels chaotic and noisy, distracting you from the real" - this spoke to me deeply today. Thank you for your sharing and writing.
this article so deeply touched on things I've been feeling recently. thank you for your confirmation and articulation. I just logged out of Instagram a few days before reading this, and already I feel more clear. the only reason that I was still on it was to learn about in person organizing in my local community, and to read global news. I see now that with a very small amount of effort, I can do that WITHOUT social media. I had the realization that the people I have organized effectively with in the long term have ALL been people I've met synchronously at local shops, events, restaurants, or by being introduced by a mutual friend. the community garden I tend to, I learned about by reading the newspaper two years ago! so I've been falsely believing that IG is making connections. it's been our bodies and the land that have been connecting the whole time :)
Your honesty, Bethaney, and articulate reflections are refreshing and worth reading!! DO take the time "to honor the realness and limitations of the life unfolding within and around you." Come back when the time is right, and I look forward to that. And Kudos for stepping away a bit from Social Media...
Peace, Nancy N
Bethaney- thank you for sharing the burden that you were facing. I'm so very thankful you are connected to Holy Spirit's call to come away and spend time reorienting life and will be praying for you as you walk through this healing. Thank you for sharing the two descriptions of cocooning.
Bethaney, I'm SO excited for you. I checked out of Instagram for Lent last year and just...never went back. As an artist that was scary -- and yes, letting go instagram took away a lot of the "accountability" of needing to produce constantly so I could post -- but it has been the very best healing for the lies that that human-productivity machine told me. Just wait til you go on your first trip without Instagram... it is a whole new world!!
This spoke 👏🏼 to 👏🏼 my 👏🏼 soul! I too have found that I was actually very addicted to social media and used Instagram as a pacifier. I’ve deleted all social media from my phone and honestly, I feel depressed and lonely. Instagram certainly gave me a false feeling of “connection” but in the 2 weeks I’ve quit, I’m learning so much about being human again. Right now I’m coping with scrolling Substack but hey! The long form content is way better for my mental health, haha. Anyhow, I just came to say that I feel you. Instagram felt that way for me too. I was a “influencer” stuck at 4.4K and was just DONE.
"May you have the courage to opt-out of whatever feels chaotic and noisy, distracting you from the real" - this spoke to me deeply today. Thank you for your sharing and writing.
this article so deeply touched on things I've been feeling recently. thank you for your confirmation and articulation. I just logged out of Instagram a few days before reading this, and already I feel more clear. the only reason that I was still on it was to learn about in person organizing in my local community, and to read global news. I see now that with a very small amount of effort, I can do that WITHOUT social media. I had the realization that the people I have organized effectively with in the long term have ALL been people I've met synchronously at local shops, events, restaurants, or by being introduced by a mutual friend. the community garden I tend to, I learned about by reading the newspaper two years ago! so I've been falsely believing that IG is making connections. it's been our bodies and the land that have been connecting the whole time :)