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welcome to the Elevated Edit podcast

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I'm your host likely Ramsey

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and the goal of this podcast is to discuss all things

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personal development wellness

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and the art of editing your life in an elevated way

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from mastering morning routines

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to mastering your mindset

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we're going to sift through the noise

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and empower you to take elevated action

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make sure you catch the show notes for all the details

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enjoy the show

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welcome back to the Elevated Edit podcast

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I'm your host Blakely Ramsey

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and today

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we are going to dive into a topic that affects

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so many of us all across the board

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and that is social media over consumption

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we live in a world where we're constantly connected

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and we have almost anything we could want

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right at our fingertips but I think many of us

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question whether that is actually a good thing or not

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for me I have made some of my greatest connections

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and Learned some of the most informative information

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I could possibly imagine from social media

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you know if you look back even a decade ago

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we are able to learn and grow

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and connect in ways that we have never seen before

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but I personally

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have also had some of my darkest moments

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from social media you know

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whether it's comparison or doomsday scrolling

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it really is a double edged sword

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so in this episode we're going to explore however

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using social media can take a toll on our mental

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and physical health

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I'll be sharing evidence based insights

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and we will discuss ways to bring self awareness

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to our social media consumption

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so that we can take that

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control of that portion of our lives

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at least and we can truly enjoy social media

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instead of letting it be something that is so negative

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so first let's discuss

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why social media is so addictive in the first place

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and I think that this is really important to talk about

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because when I when it comes to overconsumption

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I think it is really easy to feel a lot of shame

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and a lot of guilt

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for me personally I question

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why I could not seem to control

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my social media consumption

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I would scroll for hours and hours

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and I would feel so bad about myself

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because I would think back on all of the other things

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I could have gotten done in that time

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and for me it felt like social media was a

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just a different outlet of procrastination

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and it was a different

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way for me to avoid my responsibilities

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but as we will mention a lot on this show

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awareness is really important

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when it comes to the conversation of social media

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and for me

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digging into the science behind social media

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and understanding that it is designed to be addictive

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made me feel a whole lot better about my struggle

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and I could honestly do a whole episode

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just on the information alone

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that I found during my research

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because it is vast but when you start to study

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the different algorithms

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of different social media platforms

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from a psychology perspective

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the one thing that stands out is how social media

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excels in keeping us in a dopamine loop

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and just to give you an example and when you hear this

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you're gonna go well of course

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that makes total sense

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when you look at the difference between LinkedIn

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and TikTok so I personally love LinkedIn

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I think it is super underrated

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and I don't think people use LinkedIn enough

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I think it's a great platform for networking

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for obviously finding a job

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but also learning and you know

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connecting with other like minded people

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I think Lake Den is phenomenal however

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LinkedIn is not one of the most popular apps

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like TikTok

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you can see how that dopamine loop is so important

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when it comes to these social media platforms

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and when it comes to their algorithms

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you know that's why TikTok is absolutely crushing it

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compared to other platforms right now

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is because TikTok has really nailed down the psychology

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and they have nailed down

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how to constantly keep you in that dopamine loop

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before TikTok um

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when you were just looking at say

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you were mostly

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seeing content from people that you followed

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or people that you were friends with

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you know you followed someone on Instagram

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and then every time their post would pop up

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that was what popped up at the top

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that was kind of how social media was at the time

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you were fed content from people that

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you were already following

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when TikTok came out

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it completely changed the game on all of that

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so instead of there being a discover page

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that was kind of off to the side

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that you never really went to

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TikTok put that discover page

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or the for you page right there in front of you

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so now

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instead of seeing content from people that you're just

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you followed or you're friends with

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you're now being pushed content that is exactly

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what you want to see

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and you're being fed these short

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easy to digest clips and it is truly

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no wonder that TikTok grew as quickly as it did

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because they really nailed

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the concept of the dopamine loop

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and when I say dopamine loop

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without getting too technical

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it just means

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you're constantly being hit with a new circuit

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that is giving you a sense of pleasure

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and I don't want to completely knock a dopamine loop

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because or

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you know a dopamine release

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because there are definitely healthy ways to

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get a dopamine release you know exercise

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learning something new achieving a goal

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those are all amazing ways to get a dopamine release

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but when you think about those

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channels of releasing dopamine

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they are very slow you have to put in some effort

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um and you're not getting a rush

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like you're getting from TikTok

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and you know

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TikTok not only gives you a dopamine release

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from the constant scroll

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but you're also getting a hit of dopamine from other

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ways as well

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so likes follows notifications

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all of the little pings

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and beings that happen on the app

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they're all giving you that hit of dopamine

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and so it really is no wonder that it is so addictive

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and there was actually a study that was published in

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computers in Human Behavior

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and it found that individuals who received frequent

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social

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rewards on social media exhibited signs of addiction

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were similar to those seen in substance abuse

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and when I read that I was like wow

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that's that's a big deal

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you know

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I think we all kind of joke about social media and oh

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I'm addicted to social media haha

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but I mean studies are coming out

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that are showing that we genuinely

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are physically becoming addicted to social media

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and it is a little scary um

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and I I want to clarify

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you know before I go on

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that

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I think we all view social media in a different light

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and I think a lot of that is based on

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you know when social media came into your life

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and that goes back to your age

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um I think for me personally

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just for context I'm 31

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I'll be 32 when this episode comes out

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and I think my generation kind of has that sweet spot

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of course a typical millennial

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we think we're the best at everything

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but genuinely um

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I did not grow up with technology in my hands

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I did not grow up with social media

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readily available to me I did have a MySpace account

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I wasn't supposed to have one

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and I also was not supposed to have a Facebook account

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and so I think I had my first Facebook when I was 15

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maybe and I had to

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the only way I could access it was on the computer

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downstairs so it was in the living room

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I had to of course

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I had to wait until everybody else went to sleep

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we had dial up internet

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because we lived way out in the country

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so I have to you know

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pray nobody heard the dial up internet happening

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and then I would get on this slow

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ancient internet and back then Facebook was so funny

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you know it was cheesy

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it was corny we were posting um

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like song lyrics for updates

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we were posting 100 pictures at a time of you know

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Thursday in class like

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I remember we used to take photo shoots in class

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and we would post those you know

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it was very innocent and very not cool

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not trendy

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it was just bad like yeah

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we did filter things but it was very noticeable

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it was a filter the duck face was a big deal

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um and I didn't have an iPhone until I was 17 I think

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and so it wasn't like

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I was carrying social media around with me

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you know Ava iPhone was expensive and b

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I was loyal to that pink razor

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you were gonna have to pry that out of my cold hands

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and so it was it was just such a different world

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and I think that kids today

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are being introduced to social media so early

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and being introduced to technology so early

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and it's almost hard to not introduce them to it

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because it's such a big part of school

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and you know moving forward

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I don't think technology is going anywhere

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and so it is hard

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because

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how are you supposed to introduce kids to technology

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without

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allowing them to become addicted to it

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so I think it's

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I think it's just a really sticky topic right now

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um I think that it's a hard topic

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but I think that awareness

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and I think that being careful with what we are

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previewing

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and what we're ingesting when it comes to social media

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is really important

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and so I think you know

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when you look at all these different things

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it is really

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easy to understand how social media affects

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our mental health um

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studies of course

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I don't think this is any surprise to anyone

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but studies have shown that excessive social media

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use is linked to anxiety

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depression and feelings of loneliness

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and I think this comes from a lot of different factors

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but I narrowed it down to three

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that have really impacted me the most

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so one is the constant comparison to other people um

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it is hard to

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not compare yourself to others on social media

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when you're constantly seeing them achieve things

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and buy things and go places and

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you know

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you're sitting on the couch eating a bag of Cheetos

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it's it really is hard to not compare yourself

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and I also think

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the exposure to curated highlight reels is also

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a difficulty for so many of us

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myself included and I am even aware of the numbers

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but you know

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we're really looking at about 3% of someone's day

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and of course we're and I do this too

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we're only gonna put the good 3% out there

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we're not gonna put the struggles and the sacrifices

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and the tears and the hard work

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we're not putting that on social media

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we're gonna put the best 3%

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and you know if you judge your 100% by someone's 3%

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then obviously you're not gonna add up

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um and I think mentally

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that is really like kind of destroying us a little bit

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and I also think the artificial pressure to keep up

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is eroding our self esteem and our well being

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and this isn't coming from just organic content

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but I think

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ads and influencers are also really adding to this

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because when you get on social media

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you do feel like oh well

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I need to buy that thing

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or I need to save up for that thing

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or I need this thing

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because we're constantly being told that we need it

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we're constantly being influenced

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and so I think it's a there's a plethora of reasons

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but I mean

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social media is impacting our mental health so much

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but beyond our mental health

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and this is something that I don't think is discussed

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enough

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social media is also impacting our physical health

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as well

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we are spending hours hunched over our phones

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which can lead to poor posture

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we are constantly looking

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at a screen that is 4 inches away from

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our face and the eye strain

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we don't even have studies that have

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shown the long term impact

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enough to know just how much we are affecting our eyes

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and then especially I mean this is a huge one

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our disruptive sleep patterns

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due to the blue light emitted by screens

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our circadian and I can say this because I am the worst

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but our circadian rhythms are destroyed

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because we have all of this fake blue light

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and you know

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you start the day with the finite amount of

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decision making and as your day progresses

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you lose decision making skills

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so this is the same across the board

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you know no matter what

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and that's why it's important to pre plan

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and have a calendar and think things through

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so that you're not wasting those

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that really

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important amount of decision making skills that

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you have but by the end of the day

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we are zapped

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we have no more good decision making skills

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we're depleted

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and so that's usually the time that most of us sit on

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on the couch or lay down in bed and grab our phone

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well if all of our good decision making skills are gone

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we're just mindlessly scrolling

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we're doing stay scrolling

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we're looking at this negative thing

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we're comparing ourselves to this

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we're comparing ourselves to that

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and you know

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it really is no wonder that

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not only are we addicted to it

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but it is so

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it can just be so bad for us and so draining

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so this next part is not meant to make you feel guilty

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whatsoever but y'all know I'm all about self awareness

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and I am all about being honest and transparent

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and I think the best place to start is to be honest

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and transparent with yourself

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and so I research some signs that you might be

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over consuming social media

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and I'm still working progress on all of these

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it's really hard social media is a huge part of my life

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not just personally but professionally as well

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um and I

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it is important for me to stay current on the trends

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but when you go down a rabbit hole with trends

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then you also judge 20 people

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judge yourself 70 times and then

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you end up buying something on Amazon

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that you really didn't need

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so I am just as guilty of these things as y'all are

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so don't feel bad about it

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but we do need to have a conversation

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so that we can increase our self awareness

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when it comes to social media

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so some signs that you were over consuming

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you have increased screen time without even being aware

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so if you have ever looked up

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and realize that you spent an hour

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scrolling on social media

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this is what I'm talking about

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and if you are doing this frequently

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it may be a sign that you need to

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you know reevaluate

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your relationship when it comes to social media

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and this for me

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kind of reared its ugly head during the pandemic

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so TikTok was fairly new um

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I was at home

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and I really had no goals at the time

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because I thought the world was ending

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and I was like what is the point of doing anything

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so I was at home on the couch scrolling scrolling

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scrolling and I was getting a lot of dopamine hits

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because there was a lot of news that was being put out

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you know every

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I just remember like during the pandemic

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I would wake up in the morning and it was like

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I was already exhausted before the day even started

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because I knew it was like social media was my job

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and I knew as soon as I got on

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it was just gonna be bad news

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bad news bad news

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I was in all these groups

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and there were constant updates about this and that

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and all the things and it was so damaging to my

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my psyche my mental health

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all of the things and then

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as we started to come out of the pandemic a little bit

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real estate took off and so obviously

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I was on social media working

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and I was comparing myself to other agents

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you know

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I was keeping up with how much they were selling

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and what kind of marketing they were doing

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and it was just a really toxic cycle

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and it took me a while to kind of snap out of it

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but eventually I went okay

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I am not making progress on my real goals

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in the real world

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because I'm spending so much time on social media

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and so for me like

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that awareness of my increased screen time

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really was a wake up call

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for me

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another sign that you are over consuming

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when it comes to social media is

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you are having a negative emotional response to it

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so if you are

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finishing up a social media binge

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and you feel anxious or stressed or envious

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or in general you feel worse than you did

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before you got on social media

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it's probably a sign well

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a sign of two things

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probably a sign that you're over consuming

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but it's also a sign that

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you probably need to curate your fate a little bit

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and we'll talk about that a tiny bit more here

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in just a minute but if you are feeling drained

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when you get off of social media

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it is a sign that you need to

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at least explore your relationship with social media

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and not saying you need to get off of it all together

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but shift it just a little bit

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um and then of course

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disruptive sleep patterns and other physical symptoms

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so I have really had to work on my sleep

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the last couple of months

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uh and one of the

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the big changes that I made

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and the one that I think has made a huge impact is

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I try to stay off of social media after 8 p

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m uh

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it's not always possible because like I said

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a lot of my job revolves around social media

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and so sometimes I just I

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I have to

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but nights when I stay off of social media after 8

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I mean my sleep is just wildly improved

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and then of course I try not to get on social media

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first thing in the morning

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I try to wait at least an hour after I wake up

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and that that changes my whole day

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it really does and then

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physical symptoms that you might be experiencing

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you know if you're

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if you got an increase in headaches

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and neck pain and eye strain

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those are common physical symptoms that are linked to

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excessive screen time and if you're experiencing these

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you know you might just wanna do an audit

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and see if decreasing your social media time

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helps those physical symptoms at all

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I think we've had enough negative talk for one episode

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um I hated to just pour all that negative information

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out there but like I said

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awareness is really important

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and I think that

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this is something that needs to be talked about

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so now

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let's shift from a negative talk to positive talk

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and let's discuss how we can regain control over

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and build a healthier relationship with

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our social media consumption

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I think a great first step is to do a small

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digital detox I'm not saying

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you have to take a whole month off of social media

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I'm not saying you even have to take a whole week off

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maybe you start with this is what I started with

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I told myself on Sunday

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I'm gonna stay off of social media

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I don't always hit the nail on the head completely

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but now and Saturday too now on the weekends

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I try to

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avoid getting on social media as much as possible

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I am hardly ever perfect at it

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but I have taken

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huge steps towards avoiding social media

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on the weekends and it's

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it's made a huge difference for me

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it just kind of gives me a break

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to get back to the real world

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and focus on you know

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things that are not technology

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um and look

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if one day is too much just tell yourself okay

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I am gonna stay off of social media

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every Sunday after five PM or every Sunday from 5 to 6

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or whatever day of the week

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whatever time works for you

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just start small

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if you think that you're over consuming

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start small give yourself a tiny right here

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and then you will build on it

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because you'll feel so good

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you'll go okay well

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let's try another hour let's try another day um

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I am building up to be able to take a month off

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um there is an influencer that I follow

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she's an education space

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and she is currently taking a year off of social media

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now

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she has a team who is still running her social medias

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and she is you know

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of course giving them content and they are posting it

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but for herself she is staying off for a year

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and I'm like antsy waiting for her to come back

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and tell us how it's going

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and all of the things that have happened

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and how her mindset has changed

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and I'm hoping to be

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to a point where I can take a full month off

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soon we'll see

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we're not there yet

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uh and like I said

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you know start small

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if it feels overwhelming

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just do whatever feels attainable to you

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as far as this digital detox

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the next one I think is extremely important

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because

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this is where

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social media can either have a negative impact

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or a positive impact on us

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and that is practicing mindful consumption

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and when I say practicing mindful consumption

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I mean being intentional about your social media use

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follow accounts that make you feel good about yourself

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follow people that uplift you

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and unfollow people that trigger negative emotions

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uh unfortunately

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I have

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really had to spend

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way less time on Facebook here lately

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um Facebook to me has just gotten really dark

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and it's just people complaining about the economy

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and they're complaining about this

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and they're complaining about that

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and then the next day

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they're complaining about the same thing

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or they're complaining about traffic

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and it's just I just don't

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I don't wanna be around that

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I don't want that kind of energy in my life

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and so I have kind of shifted to other platforms

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like I said I love LinkedIn

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I love Instagram I love TikTok

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um I want Snapchat a little bit

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I love threads uh

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and I've really just curated my

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feed to the point where I'm hardly seeing any negative

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content um

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and I don't want to be naive

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and I don't wanna be someone that's

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not aware of what's going on in

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the world but I personally

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don't think that social media is a great place to

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learn about

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things that really impact us

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I think it should be a place for connection

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and a place to go and watch silly videos about cats

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I think if we want true

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quality

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information about things that are really important

587

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we need to pick up a book that's just my opinion

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don't come at me um

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I'm not judging I just

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I think that

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learning about

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important things from social media is kind of

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taking the easy way out but anyway

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I'm gonna get canceled on my like 6 episode

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it's fine um

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it's not funny

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but it sort of is but I really do you know

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I think that social media should be fun

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and it should be light and it should be airy

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and then you know

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for the important conversations

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we take those into real life

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we sit down face to face with people

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we have real conversations

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we email we read well researched articles

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we have human connection

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we read books we study history

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you know I just think that this whole learning

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based only from social media

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it has gotten out of control and I think it's

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it's gonna be our downfall but we'll see

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the next thing that you can do

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to change a relationship with social media

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is to prioritize activities

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and hobbies that are offline

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um you know

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reconnect with activities that don't involve a screen

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read a book walk

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spend time with loved ones

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pick up a new hobby I

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I think it's so important

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and I I noticed that a lot of people are kind of

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heading back to those hobbies

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you know

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I see so many people painting and they're doodling

626

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or they're making sourdough or whatever it is

627

00:25:49,533 --> 00:25:52,233

like people are kind of pulling off the screens

628

00:25:52,233 --> 00:25:55,066

and they're actually doing things in the real world

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again and I think it is allowing all of us to kind of

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recenter and refocus

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and recalibrate and I think it's such a beautiful thing

632

00:26:03,733 --> 00:26:06,266

and I think that is what we need to focus on more is

633

00:26:06,266 --> 00:26:09,000

you know living our lives in the real world

634

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and then we can share tidbits of that fun

635

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and those hobbies and those things on social media

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instead of

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having our whole lives revolve around social media

638

00:26:19,233 --> 00:26:21,933

and I think all of these activities overall

639

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can really help reduce our stress

640

00:26:24,133 --> 00:26:26,900

and improve our overall well being

641

00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:29,733

thank you so much for joining me today

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in this conversation I know it is not a fun one to have

643

00:26:33,433 --> 00:26:34,433

because

644

00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,933

so many of us are struggling with our relationship

645

00:26:37,933 --> 00:26:39,500

when it comes to social media

646

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and I just want to remind you that this is

647

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not about completely

648

00:26:43,700 --> 00:26:45,700

eliminating social media from our lives

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but it's about finding a balance

650

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and using social media in a way

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that enhances our well being

652

00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:53,133

rather than

653

00:26:53,666 --> 00:26:55,200

you know distracts us from it

654

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like I said I have made some of my biggest connections

655

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I have Learned a lot from social media

656

00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,633

I think it is a great supplemental tool

657

00:27:04,666 --> 00:27:06,800

to things that we learn from books

658

00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:08,466

and we learn from you know

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face to face conversations

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I think social media

661

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can be a great supplement to all those things

662

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and so I hope today's episode has given

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you some tools and insights

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for you to create a healthier

665

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relationship with social media

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if you enjoyed this episode

667

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please share it with someone who might benefit from it

668

00:27:26,433 --> 00:27:27,933

and don't forget to subscribe

669

00:27:27,933 --> 00:27:30,433

so you don't miss any future episodes

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until next time take care of yourself

671

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and be mindful of how you spend your time online

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see you in the next episode

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I hope you found today's episode inspiring

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00:27:45,933 --> 00:27:47,933

and full of actionable tips

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00:27:48,466 --> 00:27:49,966

don't forget to check out the show notes

676

00:27:49,966 --> 00:27:52,633

for all the resources and links mentioned

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00:27:52,733 --> 00:27:55,600

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leave a review and share it with your friends

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00:27:58,633 --> 00:28:00,900

680

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and inspiration until next time

681

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keep growing glowing and elevating your life

682

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see you soon