You're listening to episode 97 of the baggage reclaim sessions.

I'm your host Natalie Lou, the writer of baggage reclaim.com,

where I help people to become more emotionally available. Why?

So that they can let go with the baggage of the past, so that they can enjoy more fulfilling

relationships, but also so that they can feel confident and happier within so that they can enjoy their best life.

Hey there, so last week I talked about going on a social media diet and oh my goodness the amount of

messages I got from people about this because it turns out as usual that I am far

from being alone in sort of having to figure out what the hell is going on with this

or where I spend my time, energy, emotion and effort online and also some of the disruptions

that can be caused by the things that we basically do to ourselves

but also how we engage with others. So what was quite interesting is for, one person basically said that as a result of reducing, just reducing how much time they spent on Facebook.

They have made their way for a stack of books. They are learning a new

language and brushing up on three other languages that they've already learned.

Amazing. But I also heard from a number of people who said that they had

reached breaking points. Often it was to do with break-ups and in some instances around a friendship or a

deal with a family member but they'd reached that sort of breaking point when

they realized that going online to for instance Facebook or to Twitter or whatever it was

was just basically leading to so much torment and they had decided to step back

from it and even though initially they felt out of control, you know,

because obviously now you can't kind of beat in something and keep an eye on what's going on,

there was also this relief and it was paying more attention to that sense of relief but also

not being distracted that helped them to sort of commit to that decision.

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