You're listening to episode 64 of the Baggage Reclaim sessions.

I'm your host Natalie Lou, author of Baggage reclaim.com, where I help people to offload the shady relationships and emotional baggage that block healthy

self-esteem and loving relationships.

This week I talk about going on a social media diet and why there's no need to turn simple decisions into big life ones. Hello there. I can't believe it is the 2nd of December. Well my kids

can't because they've been counting down waiting to start opening up the advent calendar.

I tell you my patients will probably have warned Finn by the time Christmas Eve rolls around with all the politics around that.

Anyway, I decided that I don't need to wait until January to go

and make necessary changes. Actually, you know, I do make changes all year round, but I do

find that at this time of year, I think that we kind of tend to think of like, oh, I know I need to kind of do that year.

I think that that could be my New Year's resolution. I'll start doing that in January.

And a few days back I went on Facebook yet again and a friend of mine had

announced as you do with some of these things well well, you know, you post a status, but it was effectively an announcement saying,

wish nobody, you know, Merry Christmas, happy holidays, and that she would basically see us on the other side in 2017.

And this was because, not well, this wasn't because she was thinking, oh, it's now like December

31st, New Year's Eve no she was thinking I'm going to have a

digital break and it turns out this is something that she does every year and so she just has a total sort of blanket ban on herself from

being on social media and focuses on doing stuff in real life or connecting

other people you know via via phone or even on email.

And as you would imagine, you know, if you stop being on social media for a time, you actually

sort of don't end up seeing a lot of things

kick off online you might not see about I don't know things that your friends

typically post on there you'll miss out in certain articles I guess but she

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