Day 1
I made a decision today to reprogram my brain. I made a list of all things toxic in my life that do not serve me and my growth and began eliminating them. Social media was something that clearly had to go. Don't misunderstand me, social media can be a wonderful, powerful tool for communication. However, for my brain, it is a disservice. It triggers like addiction for me -- getting likes, messages, watching other people's lives and disassociating from my own. I am impulsive and I post things that I soon regret. I use it to create identities to the point where I lose my own. When I was a teenager, we did very well without social media. We found ways to communicate with those that we really wanted to. We got the information we needed when we wanted it -- it wasn't constantly fed to us. These dream lives and confusing realities were not constantly shoved in our faces. We didn't feel the need to spend money to be "like her". I cringe. That was who I had become... n...