Photo by https://www.pexels.com/@kseverin About 5 years ago I changed my relationship with social media forever. I noticed I was too overwhelmed, stressed and having a hard time focusing on the things I enjoyed the most and I knew that my relationship with social media played a huge part in this outcome.  The reality is, social media isn't going away. Even before The Social Dilemma aired in 2020, the American Journal of Epidemiology had published a report that concluded "A 5,000 person study found that higher social media use correlated with self-reported declines in mental and physical health and life satisfaction."  American Journal of Epidemiology, 2017. Before I even knew that this kind of research was being done, I sensed that social media was playing some part in how I was feeling from day to day and I wanted to take back some control over my own life, emotions and creative sustainability. It did not happen overnight but the tips I am sharing and some of the posit