Mental Health

How to Stop Social Comparison from Eclipsing your Joy

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Since May is Mental Health Month, Screenspire is spending the entire month tackling an issue that lies at the heart of the most pressing mental health challenges we face as digital consumers: social comparison.

Social comparison is so pervasive, automatic, and disruptive that we thought it would be better to use all of our blog posts for the month of May covering a new aspect of social comparison, instead of writing a post about a new mental health topic each week. We believe that diving deep into the coverage of social comparison — something that affects all of us — will yield the greatest sustained digital wellbeing changes for you.

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Why Developing a Growth Mindset is the Key to Living Courageously

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Today’s post covers the fixed mindset.

This post is part 2 of a 7-part blog series where we’ll discuss seven mindset shifts we must make in order to experience digital wellness. When we talk about digital wellness, we often focus on the external changes we can make to improve our relationships with media (e.g, reducing our screentime, using grayscale on our phones). But we rarely consider how our mindsets — our attitudes, beliefs, and thought patterns — influence our experiences with digital media, and how these experiences prevent us from practicing digital wellness.

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How to Ditch the Zero-Sum Bias and Embrace an Unstoppable Abundance Mindset

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Today’s post covers zero-sum thinking (otherwise known as the zero-sum bias): the tendency to understand life as a series of zero-sum games: when one person wins, the other person must fail. When we engage in zero-sum thinking, we believe that someone else’s success is detrimental to our own. This form of thinking is centered on the belief that we are all competing for a limited number of resources, and that if someone wins, there are fewer resources for everyone else.

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How to Ditch the 7 Social Media Use Habits that are Killing your Spark

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In this post, I share seven social media use habits to ditch today in order to prevent social media from making you lose your spark, and 7+ research-informed, health-promoting habits to replace them with. I hope to help you identify, label, and eliminate habits that aren’t serving you so that we can all relieve the pain, stress, and distraction they’re causing and begin engaging with social media in ways that add energy and light to our lives.

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The Ultimate Student Guide: Should I Digital Detox or Become a Digital Minimalist?

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Today’s post comes from a question I’ve been seeing again and again in digital wellness communities from teens and young adults who are trying to adopt more balanced media use habits: should I do a digital detox, or become a digital minimalist?

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10 Myths that Prevent us from Embracing Digital Wellness

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A few years ago, my misunderstanding of digital wellness made me reluctant to pursue it. Now that I know better, I want to set the record straight and clarify the 10 most pervasive misconceptions about digital wellness so that you have the credible information needed to get started on your own digital wellness journey.

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8 Actionable Tips for Healthy Social Media Use

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Our experiences on social media can transform the rhythms of our entire day, and determine how much energy we feel we can devote to things that matter to us.

This is why pursuing social media use habits that support our well-being is so important. In this post, written for all users of social media, I outline 8 research-informed strategies for using social media in ways that support our well-being.

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