Called to This Season | SAHM, Lonely, Overstimulated, Reassurance, Biblical Encouragement
Aug 10, 2026 · 18 min · 10 segments
- *"What drives me to continually inflict this upon myself?"* <!--THE END--> - *"Why does catching a glimpse of someone else's journey leave me feeling so insignificant?"* <!--THE END--> - *"Will…
Before you can take your power from social media, you need to be aware of the way it makes you feel because this is no accident.
It is an algorithm designed to keep you on the platform and the most effective way to keep you scrolling.
Just inspired enough to stay.
Just unsettled enough to keep flipping your finger to the next video, the next image, or the next thing that's going to keep you engaged in that platform.
Each time you view or swipe, you are drawn into revealing your weak spots through the connection with what you watch and how you interact with it.
The platform aims to maintain your presence so that you are a captive audience turned on and tuned in to whatever the algorithm is reviewing to you.
For the platform, this is profit.
Your view, your audience, effectiveness in being engaged in that platform is profit.
You're nothing but dollar signs.
Once you understand that, the comparison that you are seeing loses a little power because now you can see that social media platform for what it actually is.
It's not really truth.
It's a trigger.
The next time you feel the comparison rising while you are scrolling, please say something like this to yourself.
This isn't truth.
It's a trigger.
This platform was built to make me feel exactly the way I'm feeling.
in this moment.
Identifying this process disrupts your instinctive habit of making comparisons and it allows you to disrupt the mindset and rest that comparison trigger so that when you are going through social media, you're not constantly putting yourself in a Every time you compare yourself to another mom on Instagram, you are making a comparison that can never be fair.
You are comparing your everything to her one thing.
Think.
You are comparing your behind the scenes to her highlight reel.
Your worst moments to her best moments.
Your full interior world to her carefully crafted exterior world.
Your real life to her reality.
Before you can take your power from social media, you need to be aware of the way it makes you feel because this is no accident.
It is an algorithm designed to keep you on the platform and the most effective way to keep you scrolling.
Just inspired enough to stay.
Just unsettled enough to keep flipping your finger to the next video, the next image, or the next thing that's going to keep you engaged in that platform.
Each time you view or swipe, you are drawn into revealing your weak spots through the connection with what you watch and how you interact with it.
The platform aims to maintain your presence so that you are a captive audience turned on and tuned in to whatever the algorithm is reviewing to you.
For the platform, this is profit.
Your view, your audience, effectiveness in being engaged in that platform is profit.
You're nothing but dollar signs.
Once you understand that, the comparison that you are seeing loses a little power because now you can see that social media platform for what it actually is.
It's not really truth.
It's a trigger.
The next time you feel the comparison rising while you are scrolling, please say something like this to yourself.
This isn't truth.
It's a trigger.
This platform was built to make me feel exactly the way I'm feeling.
in this moment.
Identifying this process disrupts your instinctive habit of making comparisons and it allows you to disrupt the mindset and rest that comparison trigger so that when you are going through social media, you're not constantly putting yourself in a Every time you compare yourself to another mom on Instagram, you are making a comparison that can never be fair.
You are comparing your everything to her one thing.
Think.
You are comparing your behind the scenes to her highlight reel.
Your worst moments to her best moments.
Your full interior world to her carefully crafted exterior world.
Your real life to her reality.
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