eeeee i love this conversation, i’m currently on a winter sabbatical with instagram: fall equinox - any time after the winter solstice, mainly because my seasonal depression kicks my ass and social media is not generative for me in trying to stay with life.
i love leaving instagram it makes me remember i’m a living body that life is slow and i can have big conversations and that all that energy can be used in 5,000 different ways and i can actually uncurl my back and drop my shoulders
i also love coming back to instagram knowing i will leave again it helps hold the reality that social media in general is not that deep- i love memes i love knowing where the parties and shows are and i also love not knowing a thing. i try to move towards it with less rigidity
just found your podcast and i love it! i love that you give so much space to your audience instead of a copy & paste mindset, it’s truly a slice of healing🕊️
i take a sabbath break from my phone, every sunday it lays dead, just to reset my mind and go offline and be fully present w family. lately that means mondays i am hop back on there in a little more chaotic, less constrained way, like okay what did i miss? i am trying to figure out my balance in that.
since listening to your podcast ive been keeping a log in my notes app about the times i am mindlessly pulling up instagram and what i see/feel.
i run a business page for a restaurant so deleting the app isn’t an option. i have app limit to an hour but i probably go thirty mins beyond that.
finding our emotional/ spiritual connection and demands of things is so good and i love how you highlighted that in a humble way.
Love this episode as it reminds me to just START MY EMAIL NEWSLETTER (!!). I write several newsletters already, but within the parameters of an existing program/community. I have *yet* to start my *own* newsletter to share just because. I've felt uninspired. I've avoided it. I've spiraled with self-doubt. I got excited about it when I started a private substack for a pilot community I'm hosting. I think I'm ready. But then again, it's not about being ready. Lesson #1 of season 2 = you don't have to be clear to hit record. BINGO. Of course you had to throw in CLEAR EYES FULL HEARTS CAN'T LOSE and I had to chuckle out loud. It *does* sound kind of serious to say that nothing could take back using social media for eleven years. Right? Yikers. Is substack social media? "No, is my answer" (almost posed as a question). "Well, I think yes and no." Interesting question and one I hope to hear more about! Thanks, Mar, for the push, I mean nudge. xo
Thank you Marlee for all your work here, and for your generosity in sharing your process with us! Your podcast really helped me reframe writing newsletters as a creative practice in and of itself (rather than solely as a marketing technique, which is naively how I'd been viewing my own beforehand, even though I subscribe to many others who use them in such bold, imaginative, creative and vulnerable ways!). Listening to Common Shapes and taking your Skillshare class were beautiful, much-needed permission slips to explore what I wanted my newsletter to be, and it's really revolutionised my relationship with it as a practice. So thank you! 💖
Looking forward to listening to the latest episode. Instagram is the last place I am still participating in social media, and I'd love to change that in 2024 and beyond. It still feels like it is the only place to connect with some of my favourite writers, though - and that's hard to evaluate as a possible loss, even though there would also be much to gain from leaving.
listening to the episode connected a lot with the elisabeth pixley-fink song “precious” that’s been on rotation for me lately-- “if i can see myself i don’t need you to see me.” 💚grateful for your vulnerability in writing and for flexible office this season!
eeeee i love this conversation, i’m currently on a winter sabbatical with instagram: fall equinox - any time after the winter solstice, mainly because my seasonal depression kicks my ass and social media is not generative for me in trying to stay with life.
i love leaving instagram it makes me remember i’m a living body that life is slow and i can have big conversations and that all that energy can be used in 5,000 different ways and i can actually uncurl my back and drop my shoulders
i also love coming back to instagram knowing i will leave again it helps hold the reality that social media in general is not that deep- i love memes i love knowing where the parties and shows are and i also love not knowing a thing. i try to move towards it with less rigidity
stay with life ♡
just found your podcast and i love it! i love that you give so much space to your audience instead of a copy & paste mindset, it’s truly a slice of healing🕊️
i take a sabbath break from my phone, every sunday it lays dead, just to reset my mind and go offline and be fully present w family. lately that means mondays i am hop back on there in a little more chaotic, less constrained way, like okay what did i miss? i am trying to figure out my balance in that.
since listening to your podcast ive been keeping a log in my notes app about the times i am mindlessly pulling up instagram and what i see/feel.
i run a business page for a restaurant so deleting the app isn’t an option. i have app limit to an hour but i probably go thirty mins beyond that.
finding our emotional/ spiritual connection and demands of things is so good and i love how you highlighted that in a humble way.
thank u sm much love
I love a full sabbath day of no phone! I want to do something like that - a full no screen day once a week sounds really healing
I have wanted to do that too. It is possible!!!
A little slice of healing YES ✨️ and I also try to TURN MY PHONE OFF OFF at least once a week, there's a tinge of guilt, but mostly FREEING.
Love this episode as it reminds me to just START MY EMAIL NEWSLETTER (!!). I write several newsletters already, but within the parameters of an existing program/community. I have *yet* to start my *own* newsletter to share just because. I've felt uninspired. I've avoided it. I've spiraled with self-doubt. I got excited about it when I started a private substack for a pilot community I'm hosting. I think I'm ready. But then again, it's not about being ready. Lesson #1 of season 2 = you don't have to be clear to hit record. BINGO. Of course you had to throw in CLEAR EYES FULL HEARTS CAN'T LOSE and I had to chuckle out loud. It *does* sound kind of serious to say that nothing could take back using social media for eleven years. Right? Yikers. Is substack social media? "No, is my answer" (almost posed as a question). "Well, I think yes and no." Interesting question and one I hope to hear more about! Thanks, Mar, for the push, I mean nudge. xo
Thank you Marlee for all your work here, and for your generosity in sharing your process with us! Your podcast really helped me reframe writing newsletters as a creative practice in and of itself (rather than solely as a marketing technique, which is naively how I'd been viewing my own beforehand, even though I subscribe to many others who use them in such bold, imaginative, creative and vulnerable ways!). Listening to Common Shapes and taking your Skillshare class were beautiful, much-needed permission slips to explore what I wanted my newsletter to be, and it's really revolutionised my relationship with it as a practice. So thank you! 💖
Looking forward to listening to the latest episode. Instagram is the last place I am still participating in social media, and I'd love to change that in 2024 and beyond. It still feels like it is the only place to connect with some of my favourite writers, though - and that's hard to evaluate as a possible loss, even though there would also be much to gain from leaving.
listening to the episode connected a lot with the elisabeth pixley-fink song “precious” that’s been on rotation for me lately-- “if i can see myself i don’t need you to see me.” 💚grateful for your vulnerability in writing and for flexible office this season!
I always feel so encouraged after reading your thoughts on how you're experiencing the online world. Thank you and Happy 12.5! 🌻
Excited to listen!! 🎉