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Addiction... See me, love me, validate me? When I started social media last year, the intention was to teach from the scar. The scar of concussion, mental health and to serve.
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But then a strange phenomena happened... I was checking my phone all the time to see who ‘liked me’. I was connecting more on the phone than with my family, and my brain was hooked into a vortex that never sleeps.
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Rather than the message of brain health being the mission, it became an addiction of self esteem. Dr Amen talks about the brain lighting up in addiction and the 🧠 anterior cingulate (the cars gear shift) gets ‘locked on’ like a dog with a bone 🍖.
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Some people are more prone to having an overactive anterior cingulate (I am a dog/bone kind of gal) so the things we like... we REALLY like, and as with everything, too much of a good thing can become a bad thing.
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Knowing that, it becomes a process of:
1. Acknowledging the addiction
2. Getting clear on what we want
3. Weaning off what we don’t want
4. Calming the anterior cingulate

Step two is vital, and for me I want to spread the message that mental health is brain health, whether people like me or not. The mission is bigger than my self esteem. What is your real mission?
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Life lesson: let go of what doesn’t serve you in the process of serving.

Keep shining x

Katie 🥰