This week I deleted my FB and Instagram. Snuck a few peaks at threads..😉 I left Substack and email and so far so good. I’m happy to read your work and it resonated very deeply. Thanks!
Wow, Julia, I came here expecting a lively thread and found… crickets. Which makes me wonder if this lands a little too close to home for many of us.
I know when I listened to this post the first time, I kinda rolled my eyes with a "yeah, right" dismissal as in "sounds complicated" and more energy than I want to put in (maybe I'm not a lone?!).
And yet I went back and listened again. Because what you’re naming is actually potent medicine.
And this also has been on my mind, especially as someone who teaches and runs online programs. Social media is part of the job. There’s a practical necessity to being present, promoting courses, staying visible. The intention can be clean and grounded. And still.
Even with good intentions, social media has a punishing way of amplifying comparison, so that other people’s visible success starts to eclipse our own lived reality. Of course envy sparks. It’s almost reflexive. Then, right on cue, shame steps in to criticize or not being more evolved, more immune, more spiritually mature than that. Well, I speak for myself.
It’s a perfectly designed emotional trap.
Even after years of doing my emotional release work, teaching it, living it, I am not exempt. Actually, that part was oddly comforting to acknowledge. Not because I want to indulge envy or shame, but because pretending to be beyond them would be another layer of distortion.
So thank you for articulating something many of us likely experience but rarely slow down to examine. The silence in the comments might not mean indifference. It might mean people are sitting with it.
Hi Becca ~ thanks so much for you interesting observations. I felt the same way, usually this topic sparks a lot of discussion but it has been suspiciously quiet 🤔 Now that I read your comment I can see how it might seem like a lot. I might have forgotten that it took me two years to get to this point of readiness. And I'm totally with you, the comparison piece is a huge one for me. Much bigger than many of the other reasons to limit it!
This week I deleted my FB and Instagram. Snuck a few peaks at threads..😉 I left Substack and email and so far so good. I’m happy to read your work and it resonated very deeply. Thanks!
Amazing congrats Erika!! I’ll be curious to hear how it goes. Super glad this was helpful 🥰
Thanks, Julia. Very helpful advice. I'm ready to begin some of it. Baby steps for me now.
Glad you've found it helpful, Toni! Yes, babysteps is what I started with as well 🙏
Wow, Julia, I came here expecting a lively thread and found… crickets. Which makes me wonder if this lands a little too close to home for many of us.
I know when I listened to this post the first time, I kinda rolled my eyes with a "yeah, right" dismissal as in "sounds complicated" and more energy than I want to put in (maybe I'm not a lone?!).
And yet I went back and listened again. Because what you’re naming is actually potent medicine.
And this also has been on my mind, especially as someone who teaches and runs online programs. Social media is part of the job. There’s a practical necessity to being present, promoting courses, staying visible. The intention can be clean and grounded. And still.
Even with good intentions, social media has a punishing way of amplifying comparison, so that other people’s visible success starts to eclipse our own lived reality. Of course envy sparks. It’s almost reflexive. Then, right on cue, shame steps in to criticize or not being more evolved, more immune, more spiritually mature than that. Well, I speak for myself.
It’s a perfectly designed emotional trap.
Even after years of doing my emotional release work, teaching it, living it, I am not exempt. Actually, that part was oddly comforting to acknowledge. Not because I want to indulge envy or shame, but because pretending to be beyond them would be another layer of distortion.
So thank you for articulating something many of us likely experience but rarely slow down to examine. The silence in the comments might not mean indifference. It might mean people are sitting with it.
Hi Becca ~ thanks so much for you interesting observations. I felt the same way, usually this topic sparks a lot of discussion but it has been suspiciously quiet 🤔 Now that I read your comment I can see how it might seem like a lot. I might have forgotten that it took me two years to get to this point of readiness. And I'm totally with you, the comparison piece is a huge one for me. Much bigger than many of the other reasons to limit it!