The Power of Media Fasting (with Sr. Nancy Usselmann)
Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)
Danielle Bean
4.9 • 810 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever undertaken a media fast? What would that look like?Sister Nancy Usselmann joins Girlfriends to discuss her book Media Fasting: Six Weeks to Recharge in Christ. discusses the challenges of navigating a media-saturated world, emphasizing the importance of spiritual grounding in media use. The conversation covers practical steps for implementing a media fast, the role of prayer and community, and the need for self-awareness in recognizing unhealthy media habits. Sister Nancy encourages listeners to invite Christ into their media experiences and to reflect on their motivations for media consumption.
Takeaways
* Media fasting combines spiritual growth with practical steps.
* Assessing media habits is crucial for effective fasting.
* Fasting from media should include prayer and reflection.
* Community support enhances the media fasting experience.
* Distraction from media can hinder creativity and focus.
* Recognizing signs of media overuse is essential for self-awareness.
* Inviting God into media experiences enriches our faith.
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| 0:00.0 | Girlfriends, episode number 465, The Power of Media Fasting with Sister Nancy Uselman. |
| 0:10.9 | Hello and welcome to girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom and I'm on a mission to help you. |
| 0:17.0 | Know you're worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy in family living. |
| 0:21.4 | This week, we are talking with Sister Nancy Alsleman about an important and timely topic, |
| 0:25.9 | fasting from media. |
| 0:27.8 | What does that mean? |
| 0:28.6 | Can't wait to share this with you. |
| 0:29.8 | Let's go. |
| 0:34.7 | Hey, girlfriend, welcome to the newest episode of the podcast. |
| 0:37.4 | So thrilled you are able to join me here. |
| 0:40.3 | Really been enjoying meeting people in person recently. So this past weekend, I spoke in Erie, |
| 0:45.3 | Pennsylvania at a women's conference there. I've been giving other retreats my, you're worth it, |
| 0:49.9 | and you are enough retreats in Memphis and in Rhode Island. And every time I'm in these places |
| 0:55.8 | and meeting people, IRL, I enjoy having the opportunity to really get to know people who are |
| 1:02.7 | listening to the podcast. And I've shared before that whenever someone comes up to me in real life |
| 1:07.8 | and says they listen to the podcast, I know we have so much in common |
| 1:10.8 | already. They totally get it. Sometimes they surprise me by just how much they know about my life, |
| 1:15.4 | because when you are podcasting, sometimes you're just kind of sharing stories off the cup and then |
| 1:20.2 | you forget that you shared it. And I'm always astonished when someone comes and remembers some |
| 1:24.6 | little detail of my life from like four years ago or something, |
| 1:27.8 | and they tell me that it was meaningful to them that I shared it. And I don't even have |
| 1:31.0 | recollection of sharing it. But that's the beauty of podcasting, that we can have this personal |
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