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Welcome to the Gathering Pod, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast.

I'm Martha Beck.

Last week, I got a topic, well, I got a question that I didn't have time to answer.

And the question was from Sarah. And the question said as follows, how might you advise staying connected with your vulnerability and still keeping good boundaries with others.

Okay, so I saw that and I thought a lot of people have asked me that kind of thing.

And I think I would like to do the whole gathering room on that.

So thank you very much, Sarah.

And I got to thinking about how complex this is in the face of social

media. Like we've all heard stories about people being bullied on social media, being slandered on

social media. We've heard about the teen suicide rate has skyrocketed and it seems to be connected with the social dynamics on social media

that teenagers have always been getting into. I mean, ever since Romeo and Juliet, they were

cursing each other and stabbing each other in the street and having sex and keeping it secret and all that.

But the internet has made that a whole different thing.

And kids are being, they're being overly exposed.

Their vulnerabilities are not being protected.

And therefore, they can get deeply wounded, sometimes lethally wounded,

just by information, just by people training information.

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