Are you familiar with the Bible verse, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8? This is one of my favorite verses. It tells us that there is a season for everything. I don’t know about you, but that brings me great comfort and peace knowing that I don’t have to do or be all things, all at once, all the time. Everything has its own time. It’s own season of life.
Do you ever feel overwhelmed that maybe you aren’t doing enough or being enough compared to others you are following on social media? Do you ever feel disconnected from being fully honest with your emotions and feelings, fully aware with what you have in life, or fully present with your loved ones? Do you ever feel the constant need to document, record, capture, and share special life moments with others on social media? If you answered yes to some or all of these questions, you are not alone.
I don’t know about you, but I am on social media almost daily. It’s the platform I use to write my blog, to run my online digital shop, to minister to others through sharing the word of God. It’s a part of my life. But lately, I have started feeling burned out from it. I think social media can be an excellent tool, but it can also cause a lot of pain, exhaustion, confusion, and unnecessary comparison and feelings of not being or feeling enough. This is where I found myself at the end of December.
If you’re not a morning person like me, you’ll understand how hard morning routines truly are. I cannot tell you how many books, articles, blog posts, etc. that I have read on how to have a “successful start” to my morning. And while most of what is written is good, it wasn’t enough. I still felt empty. I still felt unsatisfied. I still felt like there was something missing to truly set up my day in a way that would help me know I didn’t have to figure everything out on my own….or even check everything off my to-do list. That’s when I discovered that there’s something beautiful that happens when I start each morning in God’s Word.
If you’ve been following my “New Year Without Shame From Diet Culture” blog series, then you know that today is part 3. In part 1, I shared with you 3 ways to improve your well-being without focusing on weight loss, body manipulation, or food restricting. In part 2, I emphasized the importance in finding joy in your physical movement/exercise. In part 3, (today) I will share why it’s important to not engage in diet-talk with yourself or others because let’s be honest, it can be really hard to stand above and resist diet culture. But, I’m here to remind you that you do not have to participate in conversations about diet or weight loss, if you do not want to. Even if others still decide to.
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