This episode is something a little bit different. It is the reading of an essay I recently published, outlining the many ways I believe social media (and Instagram in particular) is hurting us all right now, and why I have decided to close my account and move my business off of the app.

If you have noticed, from a vague intuition to an empirically felt sense, that this app might be interfering with your personal (or our collective) sense of wellbeing in any way, I hope you take some time to give it a listen.

148 | Browsing for Happiness: How Instagram Culture is Making Us Unwell

How we think is how we live. Hosted by life and mindset coach Taylor Gage, this show explores our relationship to ourselves, our nature, and the world at large, so we can be more aware, present, and alive.

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Technology has improved our lives in countless ways, but we might have begun to rely on it a bit too heavily in some places — subsequently outsourcing vital components of our humanness. If we want to establish a clearer connection with our intuition, if we want to reconnect with our bodies and minds and with the features of our own humanity, if we want to rewild ourselves, then these are some places where we might want to stop looking to our screens and instead look up, or look within.

208 | Human, Interrupted

We know that we feel better when we are close to nature, and yet many of us also feel chronically distanced from the natural world. You don’t have to move to the woods to deepen this relationship — here are simple practices that can offer big results, even in a city.

207 | Closer to Nature

How can we heal in aloneness without hiding in it? Solitude can be one of, if not THE most powerful force for our own personal and spiritual growth. But if we’re not careful, we can misuse this time and it can add to a sense of loneliness.

206 | Loneliness V. Solitude

These days more than ever, we have enormous levels of system “input”, and most of it isn’t great: news, social media, emails, etc. Where does all of this stress and angst and horror go? Let’s discuss how we can let some of this energy flow through us instead of accumulating within us.

205 | Energetic Balance

As humans, we all crave comfort and ease and safety, and it’s important that we establish these for ourselves through decisions and time. But for many of us, there is a point where the pursuit of safety or stability is no longer protecting us, and starts hurting us — turning into a cage that we become more and more scared to step out of.

148 | Browsing for Happiness: How Instagram Culture is Making Us Unwell

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