Welcome to Inner Work, a spiritual growth podcast.

I'm your host, Josephine Hartman.

I'm an intuitive healer and certified Akashik Records reader and teacher,

driven by the purpose of helping others become more powerful by reconnecting to the healer within.

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I so appreciate your presence here, and I'm honored to serve as a guide or companion on your path for a little while. Now, on to the episode.

By now, we've all heard that research has found social media to have negative effects on people's

well-being, self-image, self-esteem, and even mental health.

It's unclear what the long-term effects of social media use are going to be,

since it's still relatively a new invention.

But we're already seeing and we're feeling many of the, let's say,

shorter-term effects of using and perhaps feeling like we're

expected to use social media. This episode of Triggered is about those moments when your energy is

drained by being on social media, by using social media, maybe even just scrolling through

one of the social media platforms.

This is just one of the not so healthy consequences of being online.

I'm going to run through some specific symptoms and ways you can tell if and when your energy

is drained by your social media use and then we'll move into some suggestions and possible solutions for how to deal with this.

I'm not going to recommend at any point in this episode that you get off social media entirely because I don't think that's realistic. I don't think you even need to do that in order

to protect your sanity and your well-being. I think we can have really helpful, useful,

healthy strategies for how we interact with social media. And that's really what this episode

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