What my Four Months of Social Media Sobriety Has Taught Me

Typically I take a one month break from social media when I return home to Australia for the Christmas holidays. However, Covid-19 and Fortress Australia’s border closures over the last two years has directed me to a new course of action over recent months. Quite simply, I needed a longer break!

After three months of social media sobriety, I started feeling somewhat ready to rejoin the self-inflicted yearn to scroll and post, but there was also an increasing internal burden, need and responsibility to return with something…