3 Social Media Gems for Daily Doses of Self-Love
Since you're gonna scroll anyway, try content that fires the feel-good brain chemicals
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What are you feeding yourself? What are you filling your cup with? If you were a plant, are you watering with nutrients or with Brawndo?
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On this week’s episode of La Vida Más Chévere, we touched on a diet of consumption. Your diet is full of everything you see, read, hear, etc. This newsletter, for example, is something you’re consuming.
Thanks for that!
And just like your food diet needs lots of fiber and nutrition, so does what you feed your eyes and ears. Here are some recommendations.
Carmen Rene Flores
Bio: Trauma-healing Advocate & Voice empowerment enthusiast
Carmen Rene Flores posts short but impactful videos on Instagram displaying tools such as emotional regulation, building boundaries, and other tools to help your self-love practice. In this one, she shows how she moves from self-deprecation to self-compassion.
Foos in Medicine
Bio: Two first generation foos on a journey to become doctors
Foos in Medicine post on Instagram and YouTube about the trials and tribulations of becoming a first-generation doctor. Their witty and insightful videos about resiliency and overcoming imposter syndrome are laugh-out-loud hilarious, but also a beautiful example of representation we’re sorely lacking in the medical field.
“I listen to corridos but also to your heart”
The Nap Ministry
Bio: We examine the liberating power of naps. The originator & creator of Rest Is Resistance framework. Author of NY Times Bestseller REST IS RESISTANCE.
Flipping the script on the “strong black woman” trope, American poet, performance artist, and activist Tricia Hersey is all about REST. You know how I’m always crowing that rest is required? For Tricia, rest is resistance. Here she is on GMA discussing the trauma created by our pace of life:
What are you listening, watching, or reading regularly that would add to this list? Share your links in the comments to add more nutrition to our diet of consumption!