Bonus: A Little Dash of Comfort with Kate Baer

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza

Jo Piazza, Influence Inc.

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting, Personal Journals, Technology

4.3 • 833 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Last week we dove down the rabbit hole of mental health Instagram. We're all in the midst of a mental health crisis right now and frankly we could all use a little help. While social media is often a major contributing factor, if not the source, of these mental health problems, there is also the flipside: comfort creators. These are the people who use social media to post content that you turn to when you are feeling down and need a pick-me-up. They are not necessarily there to give advice like the mental health influencers we covered last week, but instead to show you a picture of their fluffy dog or read you an uplifting poem that helps to release the stress you’ve been carrying all day. For this special bonus episode, Jo is joined by her comfort creator: the poet Kate Baer, whose poems helped Jo through the insanity of her postpartum time and still lift her up today. If you want more Kate Baer in your life you can buy her books I Hope This Finds You Well and What Kind of Woman wherever you buy books. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:16.1	soccer. And I've got to say, I'm not the biggest sports person. I mean, look, we all know that I love the
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1:17.3	Hello, hello, hello.
1:19.4	So much of this season has been about the doom and gloom of the socials.
1:25.1	But one thing I don't want to lose track of is that there is pure joy to be found
1:30.1	online. There are brilliant people. There are beautiful things. And there's some good reasons
1:35.9	that we're so addicted to our phones because they still can be a place of discovery. And as human
1:41.9	beings, we are naturally curious. Right now, Emily, Glynis, and I are
1:46.1	hard at work on the second half of our mental health episode. And because I'm always honest with
1:51.1	you guys, I want to say it's just, it's taken some twists and turns that we didn't expect,
1:56.3	and I wanted to give it just a little more time to report and to marinate. So this week, I just
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