This is your friendly reminder that your smartphone and computer are TOOLS like a pen or a hammer or a pill or a vehicle. What are you using this tool for right now? Would I use a hammer to get to the grocery store? Nope, wouldn’t get very far. Would I use a chainsaw to trim my toenails? Nope, I’d lose my feet and it would be a disgusting and tragic mess. The Internet provides us with important updates and information, as well as space to share and connect around ideas. But how often does your screen time actually help you DIGEST and INTEGRATE all that information? How often does spending time on social media actually help you SLOW DOWN enough to be present with your feelings, your needs, and your boundaries? The internet is a powerful, important, useful MULTITOOL. So much is possible here!!! I am so grateful I have access to this valuable instrument!!! But I’m not going to pretend it can do everything for me. I’m going to do my best to try not to use it to fix problems or fill voids that it ends up aggravating and making worse (like regulating my nervous system). May we continue to get clear, collectively, on the support we need. May we find more and more ways to integrate and be in regenerative relationship with one another. May we use our tools wisely.