A blog dedicated to digital wellbeing and digital wellness
I was watching Professor Laurie Santos as part of her Science of Well-Being course on Coursera, where she talks about how to deal with social comparison. She takes a dim view of social media, encouraging students to delete social media apps from their phones, or at least give it up for a week to see… Continue reading How to avoid social comparison on social media
In late 2016, I gave up the internet for two months. In 2017, I vowed to find a “digital-life balance” as my New Year’s Resolution. But it takes longer than a year to reform entrenched habits and expectations. Since then, I’ve been focusing on changing my habits in a sustainable way. It is an ongoing… Continue reading My digital wellness journey – a personal review of 2019
Whether it's side hustle culture, a high pressure job that makes it difficult for you to boundaries or the pressure to perform for other people on social media, you may feel you're at risk of burnout. It doesn't help that burnout as a lifestyle is romanticised by entrepreneurial Instagram memes, co-working spaces and the obsession… Continue reading How to resist millennial burnout in a 24/7 culture
I can’t remember the moment it became a problem. But things creep up on you. I can’t remember the moment I stopped reading fiction books. Or the moment I stopped blogging and started taking pictures of my coffee. I can’t remember the moment I could no longer watch a film all the way through on… Continue reading How a decade of rage led to me to creating Digital Cooldown
DIGITAL COOLDOWN BLOG 