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EP245 What Your Social Media Feed Says About How You Feel About Yourself

EP245 What Your Social Media Feed Says About How You Feel About Yourself

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Send us Fan MailYou pick up your phone to check one thing. Twenty minutes later you're a little more tired, a little more behind, and somehow lonelier than when you started. Nobody told you the scroll would do that. Maybe it didn't. Maybe it just showed you something that was already there.This week Sami and Angela get very literal and talk about social media itself: how they actually use it, how much time they actually spend on it, and how to have a healthier relationship with it without deleting everything and moving to a cabin. Sami shares what happened during her family's week-long technology fast, when she kept opening an app she had blocked on purpose without even noticing. Angela explains why, after 18 years in marketing, she thinks of social media as work, and why she reminds herself that if something is free, you are the product. They also get into the highlight reel problem, how to stop comparing your behind-the-scenes to everyone else's best moments, and what your feed might be telling you about the beliefs you're already carrying. In this episode, we dig into:Permission to keep social media in your life without letting it run your lifeOne question that interrupts the mindless scroll: who is making money from me feeling this way?Relief from measuring your real life against everyone else's highlight reelA new way to see your feed as a mirror that shows which belief is loudest right nowA two-tap switch that gives you a feed of just your peopleSami tells the story of opening Instagram three times in a row during her tech fast before realizing the app was blocked and she was the one reaching for it. Angela shares that her most-used app is a Tetris-style block game (20 hours last week, and she calls it her sleep hygiene technique), and her "if you don't like the cake coming out of the oven, check the ingredients" rule for what she lets into her life. Sami talks about a friend whose Disney World photos looked perfect while the trip itself was one of the hardest of her life. Angela shares what she tells a client who wished she had a big friend group, what happened when she posted openly about a vacation argument, and the study that found limiting social media to 10 minutes a day for three weeks cut loneliness and depression in college students. Sami closes with a pet peeve about two little words ("I saw") that she would like everyone to retire.Here's what you get to walk away with: you don't have to quit to feel better, and you're not weak for losing time to the scroll. If a feed leaves you feeling less than, that's information, not a verdict. It may be pointing at an "I'm not enough" or an "I don't belong" that's worth looking at. And Angela previews next week's belief, "I don't trust myself," so stay tuned.If you've ever closed the app feeling worse than when you opened it, press play before your next scroll.Mentioned in this episode:The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt: https://www.anxiousgeneration.com/bookThe Next Right Thing by Emily P. Freeman: https://emilypfreeman.com/next-right-thing-book/Study on limiting social media and loneliness and depression, Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology (2018): https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/jscp.2018.37.10.751Gary Ware's Friday Funnies (link needed, could not verify online)Related episodes:EP244 How to Tell What's Covertly Running Your LifeEP243 How a Bad Day in Seventh Grade Still Runs Your LifeEP71 (title needed; covers curated lives vs. reality and social media breaks)EP74 (title needed; covers news and social media as influences and the loneliness epidemic)You've done the work. The retreats, the books, the coaching. And the pattern is still there. The Invisible Edge Foundation 1:1 Coaching is where that changes. Six sessions, one-on-one, body-based belief work that gets underneath what nothing else has touched. bfreakingawesome.com/podcast-coachingSupport the showSign up at bfreakingawesome.com to get the latest news, insights, and episodes straight to your inbox.Follow Be Freaking Awesome on Facebook, LinkedIn, Youtube, and Instagram.Let us know what questions you want to be answered and discussed by emailing us at podcast@bfreakingawesome.com.
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