08/14/2026
We got home from the cottage tonight after SUCH an amazing week away. ❤️
Me, Ruby + her bestie. So much laughing. Swimming. Exploring. Paddle boarding. Hanging out. Just… FUN.
And the place we stayed had no WiFi 😳
Every morning I’d walk over to the main lodge, connect for a few minutes so I could check in with my family, and then… that was pretty much it.
No scrolling.
No checking what everyone else was doing.
No seeing what I “should” be doing.
No constant stream of other people’s lives coming at me.
For an entire WEEK 🤯
And I didn’t really realize what that had done for my brain until I got home tonight and opened social media again.
Almost immediately, I could feel it. The…
Oh s**t, I’m behind.
I should have been posting.
I should have been doing this…
I haven’t done that…
And then, of course, the comparison.
It was actually kind of shocking.
Because I think most of us KNOW social media can affect us, of course. And I genuinely thought I was pretty aware of how I used it and how it influenced me.
But apparently you don’t always realize how much noise something is creating until the noise stops for a while…
And WOWZAS.
I realize now, comparison is in our faces ALL. DAY. LONG.
Other people’s businesses.
Bodies.
Homes.
Relationships.
Vacations.
Parenting.
Success.
Productivity.
Lives.
And even when we consciously know we’re looking at tiny, curated pieces of someone else’s reality… our brains are still taking it all in.
Social media can be AMAZING. It connects us! It teaches us. It gives us community, inspiration and access to people and ideas we never would have found otherwise ⭐️
But I think we also need to be really conscious of how we feel when we’re using it.
Does it inspire you?
Or does it quietly make you feel behind?
Does it connect you?
Or does it make you look at your perfectly good life and suddenly feel like it should be different?
Because I can tell you this…
For a week, I wasn’t behind on anything.
I was just living my life. ❤️
And maybe that’s something worth remembering when we pick our phones back up.
Maybe the goal isn’t to keep up with everyone else’s life — it’s to stay deeply connected to our own. ❤️✨