Episode 242: Wendy Speake
Today, I welcome Wendy Speake back to the table. This is her third time on the show. She is the co-author of the popular parenting book Triggers: Exchanging Parents Angry Reactions for Gentle Biblical Responses, and host of the annual 40 Day Sugar Fast. Her new book, The 40 Day Social Media Fast just came out earlier this month.
We sit down to have a conversation about social media. Now more than ever, we are required to be online more. And if you are anything like me, it is shocking if I step back and see how much I turn to social media as a way to cope with the state of my world. And even though there are many times where I would like to break up with social media, so much of life is online now. Which leaves me to sit in the tension of how do I handle social media when so much of my life is online?
In this conversation, we talk about how to tell if you need a break from social media, how to fast when you have to be online for everything right now, what surprised her after fasting from social media, and how to reenter social media after taking a fast.
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Links mentioned:
Digital Minimalism by James W. Williams & Amy White
The 40 Day Social Media Fast by Wendy Speake
Surviving Sarah episodes with Wendy:
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Her garden
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Spiralizer
Takeaways:
What are you turning to when you are struggling that you think is going to help you but is really just complicating things more than ever.
“I’ve found that you have to disconnect in order to connect with the things you value the most.”
“Instead of choosing when to put the phone down, choose times when you choose to pick it up."
Discussion Questions:
What would you like social media to look like in your life?
How does social media make you feel?
What do you have to do when it comes to your phone?
How much time do you need to do those things?
What is extra or beyond that?
What boundaries can you put in place to keep you safe?
What is one thing you can do this week based on this conversation?
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