“If I followed me on Instagram I would mute myself so quickly.
I found myself thinking this often last year and into this one, my own shame winding its way into the back of my brain (perhaps this type a nudge, a good shame, a log off shame) after I would post my daily retinue of information.”
I felt this so hard, wow. But also: you were doing your best in an absolutely surreal, terrible, traumatic time to be alive and have a body and your use of social media to cope and feel that you had some control over your world is valid. I think a lot of people shared your sentiments about how people were behaving during the pandemic and were glad to see their perspective mirrored in you. Don’t be too hard on yourself! It’s the trying and refining and releasing ourselves of past ways of seeing in favor of better ones. Thanks for this article !
I’m also chronically ill & this piece was exactly what I needed to read. I’ve evolved as well from past shaming…I just cannot hold space in my life for that while also living the peaceful experience I actually desire. So it was an easy choice ultimately but truthfully? I don’t regret a single moment of shaming from before😈
“If I followed me on Instagram I would mute myself so quickly.
I found myself thinking this often last year and into this one, my own shame winding its way into the back of my brain (perhaps this type a nudge, a good shame, a log off shame) after I would post my daily retinue of information.”
I felt this so hard, wow. But also: you were doing your best in an absolutely surreal, terrible, traumatic time to be alive and have a body and your use of social media to cope and feel that you had some control over your world is valid. I think a lot of people shared your sentiments about how people were behaving during the pandemic and were glad to see their perspective mirrored in you. Don’t be too hard on yourself! It’s the trying and refining and releasing ourselves of past ways of seeing in favor of better ones. Thanks for this article !
I’m also chronically ill & this piece was exactly what I needed to read. I’ve evolved as well from past shaming…I just cannot hold space in my life for that while also living the peaceful experience I actually desire. So it was an easy choice ultimately but truthfully? I don’t regret a single moment of shaming from before😈