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a media fast is where i take a break from all commercial media. i began taking media fasts in the 80's, before the internet explosion, but the concept enveloped the internet easily. digital or printed, fashion, science, etc. reports remain reports from external sources.
today begins week two of family vacay. this would be my second visit to the internet since i left the farm and ? ? ? hmmmmmm.... the visit sure feels sputtery and muttery. probably nothing more than the vacation spirit distracting me from my habitual worry streams and that's what vacations are for. fasts, too, be they dietary, media or sabbatical.
anybody else practice fasting?
copy/paste contributions and hot links welcome, also
p.s. vacay is going well. it be a bit treachourous to be so near my beloved rivers but unable to visit them because childcare duties are keeping me here at the den, butttttttaaaaaaa. . . it feels good to be breating the river air.
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Life has been really hard this past year. I'm really feeling down and alone. I can't talk to my family about my depression and anxiety their not very understanding about it. It's really hitting me since my mother passed a few months ago, plus stress from having to eventually move. Also having my niece coming around who suffers bipolar and refuses to take medication for it. Its been...
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When i was in the ER February 16th 2025, i was being admitted to ICU where i was for 3 weeks, then had to relearn to walk for 3 weeks in another hospital rehab floor, the nurse told me something that made me feel for over 18 months now that i was finally *safe*. She told me that the guy who raped and beat me 21 years ago now almost 20 years at that time, was in prison as of a month before that...
I honestly feel like my anxiety goes up a notch when I go on FB. I don’t have any other social media things except FB. I would completely log out if we didn’t own a business where I post quite often.
Some days I wish I lost my phone and went back to the great days of not knowing what everyone was eating that day LOL.
I wish there was a way to only post on our business page and not see the rest of the worlds problems (humans are made to be able to consume everyone’s issues, world issues….it’s too much-plus I truly believe it’s what’s causing more anxiety amongst teens).
Anyways, ‘it’s life right now I guess.
I applaud you with fasting!! Have a great vacation!
That's about it for me and social media though..... xo