Christian Parenting.

Welcome to Joyfilled, a podcast that invites women to experience the fullness of joy in everyday life as we walk with Christ together.

I'm your host, Jenna, and this week I wanted to take some time to talk about social media and comparison because I know it's something that we all have faced at one point

or another, but the good news is we have freedom in Christ and that includes freedom from even

the things that feel small like comparison on social media. We have freedom. So let's talk about it today.

If you are a longtime listener of Joyfield, you know that my relationship of social media has been tumultuous, to say the least.

I took an extended break from social media. I wasn't sure that I would come back

to social media. I actually announced that I was taking the year off of social media and then

a couple months in felt a little bit convicted that that decision was a bit of a hasty

decision to take a year off. And it was very, it was a very self-centered decision based on just,

I was, I just felt like it, everything would just be easier if I didn't have to be on social media, you know.

And I think part of it too is I've always kind of struggled with, you know, having good screen boundaries and having good boundaries with social media.

And so I think I felt like if I just go off of it completely, I won't have to like overcome this. I just remove it.

But the thing about things like that is removing them doesn't solve the deeper issue that's at

play. And so a couple months into the break, while it was a really good and refreshing break,

and I am a huge advocate for taking social media breaks, I'm probably a little bit overdue for one.

I started to get really convicted, and I felt like the Lord was telling me, like, the people that you're talking to, they're hanging out on social media.

And so what are you doing? Not to say that, you know, people can't be successful or reach

people without social media because you can. But, you know, young moms, moms in the thick of it,

like, we're spending our time scrolling. And for better or for worse,

that's where we're at. So, you know, I really just felt like God was like asking me to, you know,

instead of just trying to like remove it and overcome it by yourself, why don't you partner with me?

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