Episode 129: Avoiding Through Social Media with Founder of SkillsCamp Bailey Parnell

<span style='font-weight: 400;'>Social media is one of my personal favorite methods of avoiding and as you can imagine it has only gotten worse in recent weeks.</span> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>I often find myself obsessively making the rounds on social media: Twitter to Facebook to Instagram to email and back again. Stories about being isolated at home, questioning the seriousness, tips for cooking during a crisis, hoarding TP...</span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>UGH!  This has to stop!</span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>This is a conversation I was having with myself even before the pandemic crisis. It has only gotten worse since the shelter in place orders went down.  </span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>Social media is an amazing catch-22 – it calms your need to be vigilant while simultaneously making you more anxious. </span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>All this month we have been exploring the ways that avoidance shows itself in relation to anxiety. So far we have talked with</span> <a href='https://live-happier.com/127-jacquette-timmons/'><span style='font-weight: 400;'>Jacquette Timmons</span></a> <span style='font-weight: 400;'>about avoidance and money and</span> <a href='https://live-happier.com/128-erica-drewry/'><span style='font-weight: 400;'>Erica Drewry</span></a> <span style='font-weight: 400;'>about avoidance and food. </span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>Today we are talking</span> <a href='https://www.baileyparnell.com/'><span style='font-weight: 400;'>Bailey Parnell</span></a> <span style='font-weight: 400;'>about how we engage in avoidance through social media. I am so excited to bring you this eye-opening conversation with Bailey, founder &amp; CEO of <a href='https://www.skillscamp.co/'>SkillsCamp</a> and <a href='https://www.skillscamp.co/safesocial/'>#safesocial</a>. After Bailey noticed her own abuse of social media she decided to research and learn more about this issue. Her approach to reducing our social media is unique a