Showing posts with label mental health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mental health. Show all posts

8/04/2015

Finding myself through the darkness

 


I have to admit that I've been hiding from you. 

Yep--you, with the face and the eyes and whatnot.

A week ago, I came home from a dreamy, long-anticipated week-long beach vacation with my family.  In the midst of my pre-vacay cleaning/prepping/packing frenzy, I {intended} to schedule three blog posts to release during the week I would be gone.  My vacation to-do lists are usually endless, and of course I did not get to do any blogging before our trip.  Heck--I didn't even bother to shave my legs.

It's okay--I thought.  I can always take a week off and get right back to it. No harm, no foul.

We had such a great time on vacation that we extended it by a day, and then we went to a birthday party the day after we returned.  I was exhausted, and a week away from the blog quickly became two.

{Insert neurotic inner dialogue about why I was suddenly quitting the blog.}

7/10/2015

3 Things I Learned from a 90-day Social Media "Fast"

 

On June 1st, I deleted the Instagram and Facebook apps from my phone.  I decided to check Facebook only for private messages.  I wasn't much of a tweeter, and I kept watching YouTube videos for ahem--educational purposes--and not so much fruitless binge watching.  Don't get me started on all of the Pinterest projects I haven't yet had the chance to start on.

I was excited to embark on 90 days without mindless social media perusing. 

Why?