On Digital Boundaries, Breaking Free from Influence, and What You Want in 2024
Jan 5, 2024
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The podcast discusses maintaining digital boundaries, reflecting on personal struggles, finding direction and exploring wellness culture, goals for 2024, and breaking free from the influence of wellness and diet culture.
Setting digital boundaries and processing personal struggles privately before sharing online.
Being skeptical of both diet culture and wellness culture, and valuing personal experience alongside well-conducted studies in determining true wellness benefits.
Deep dives
Challenges of 2023 and Setting Digital Boundaries
The speaker reflects on the challenges faced in 2023, including personal struggles and her husband's job loss. She shares her experience of setting digital boundaries and the importance of not sharing personal struggles online until processing them privately and with trusted individuals.
Connecting the Themes of Wellness and Critical Thinking
The speaker discusses the divergence between skepticism of diet culture and wellness culture and how they can be bridged. She emphasizes the importance of being skeptical of both and highlighting the gaps in conventional wisdom in health and wellness. She believes that personal experience is not opposed to science and emphasizes the value of well-conducted studies in determining true wellness benefits.
Plans for 2024: Focusing on the Podcast, Bridging Gaps, and Social Media
The speaker announces her plans for the coming year, which include focusing creative energy on the podcast and newsletter. She aims to connect her previous work on anti-dieting with the themes of rethinking wellness. She also plans to increase the frequency of podcast episodes and collaborate with a social media manager. Additionally, the speaker announces the return of her previous podcast, Food Psych, to delve deeper into healing from disordered eating.