Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Let me ask you this, my friends. Do you ever feel a little ping of envy when you compare yourself to someone who seemingly has it all.

And on social media, you see their smiling faces, filtered, perfect kids, lovely home,

gorgeous vacation, all the things. Do you ever get that ping?

I have two things to say about this today.

Okay, my friends, two important things. If you ever feel that ping and I know that we do because I personally

I'm a human being, I experience it. But also, you know, we know how social media is having this effect on us, right?

How it makes us feel disconnected, bad about ourselves.

I mean, the research is very clear on this.

I don't need to tell you.

I have two things that I want to offer you today, right?

When you look at that person who's all got it all going on, they feel so solid, they look so secure and happy and confident and they have it all together, right?

Let me ask you this. Have you ever smiled just to get through something? Have you ever just stuck a smile on your face?

Even though you feel miserable, even though you feel sick, even though you feel insecure, even though

you feel angry? I know I have, right? Oh, photo time, smile. Oh, my husband and I fighting

somewhere. Oh, but here's a great view of the Eiffel Tower. Take a picture, smile. We all do this.

We have all done this and we will continue to because life demands it of us sometimes.

But remember that anytime you see smiling faces everywhere, you must think, oh, their life's so easy.

It's so, my God, it's so simple for them. Everything just feels so straightforward.

Just because someone has a smile on their face and they appear happy doesn't mean you have any

clue at all whatsoever about what is going on inside of them. I mean, how many times have you seen

all these smiling photos of people and then two months later they announce their divorce? I mean,

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