Stop Reading the News: Take a 30-Day Media Diet
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
FALSEHOOD: Reading the news makes you engaged. TRUTH: Reading the news makes you enraged.
If you feel anxiety reading the news, stop reading the news. True engagement is being proactive not reactive, being curious, being thoughtful, being discerning, being contemplative.
Listen to this episode to become truly engaged — not enraged — and take a break for 30 days. I bet you’ll feel better and even more informed.
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| 0:00.0 | And I'm and Welcome to Small Bight SoundBites, a weekly segment of the Food for Thought Podcast. |
| 0:20.3 | Thank you for your support of this podcast, keeping it ad free. |
| 0:24.0 | Enjoy perks and join our community of supporters at Patreon.com slash Colleen Patrick Gudro, |
| 0:30.0 | or just go straight to JoyfulVican.com and click on the donate button. |
| 0:34.4 | Okay, I'm going to set up a scene for you all listening out there. |
| 0:38.0 | Have you ever read the news or most likely just read the news headlines |
| 0:42.0 | and felt this overwhelming sense of dread and anxiety and stress and fear and thought |
| 0:50.4 | this doesn't feel good I don't want to feel this way, but I can't stop reading the news headlines because otherwise I wouldn't be engaged and I want to be engaged. |
| 1:00.0 | If you have ever felt that, I want to reframe this experience for you. |
| 1:06.0 | If reading the news gives you anxiety, give yourself permission to stop reading the news. |
| 1:13.0 | And I'm saying read the news, |
| 1:14.0 | looking at it on social media, listening to, |
| 1:17.4 | I don't know, political podcast, |
| 1:20.0 | listening to the news on the radio, |
| 1:22.6 | watching the news on TV or on the internet |
| 1:26.2 | as people tend to do these days. |
| 1:28.2 | If in any way you get AJITA from being exposed to the news, then stop exposing yourself to the news. |
| 1:38.0 | The problem is that we equate outrage with engagement, and it's a distorted understanding of engagement. We are in a |
| 1:48.9 | world where news headlines scream for our attention 24 hours a day and this relentless cycle of |
| 1:57.8 | I'm putting news in quotations pretty much just leaves us feeling outraged, it leaves us feeling powerless, and we mistake |
| 2:06.8 | emotional turmoil for true engagement. |
| 2:12.1 | Engagement is not reacting to what others decide is content that we should be paying attention |
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