Setting Boundaries in an Outrage-Driven Digital World

In this episode, Eddy Paul Thomas discusses how to set boundaries in a digital outrage-driven world to promote mental health and well-being. He shares practical strategies for managing social media consumption, building somatic awareness, and reducing digital distress.

Takeaways

• Create asynchronous, slow news habits to reduce outrage fatigue.
• Build somatic awareness to recognize physiological cues of stress.
• Set fixed times for news and social media to prevent micro dosing.
• Studies say deactivating Facebook for four weeks can significantly improve well-being.
• Focus on issues where you have direct agency and set strict intake limits.

Chapters

• 00:00 Introduction and recent global events
• 03:17 Living in an outrage-driven digital world
• 05:01 Cultivating slow news habits and curating feeds
• 07:43 Building somatic awareness for digital distress
• 10:55 Post-consumption states and emotional responses
• 11:42 Measuring digital impact through intake-output ratio
• 12:41 Research on social media deactivation and mental health
• 13:52 Strategies for managing social media use and setting limits
• 14:54 Practicing somatic offloading and physical movement
• 15:36 Challenge: Delete one social media app for 48 hours

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