New beginning
Lately, I have been listening to podcasts again after I'd been abstinent for almost a year.
Right now, that's helping me with two things:
Healthy dosing of news
Over the last couple of years, I had ran into the trap of news on social media. That included on only doomscrolling the news feed itself while not actually getting into the depth of many things. What's even worse: it also led me to scroll and read the comment sections - which is probably the worst decision you can make if your sanity matters to you at all. And I spent hours doing that every week.
Listening to podcasts has not only helped me gain more perspective on several issues that keep the media cycles spinning. It also kept me away from those intoxicating comment sections.Self care
While my consumption of podcasts was mainly directed at current events, it also happened that I stumbled across a few people who are invested in everything self care and growth. That has actually inspired me to write this little piece in order to give reflecting and growing a new chance in my life.
Ironically, just last week I had been thinking about how I had tried this once before, when I was 30, and we had our first child. So maybe a few things are coming together here.
Let's see where this takes me.