Coaching practices for Curate Social Media Feed

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• There are certain accounts I follow that leave me feeling small and behind every single time their posts show up, and yet I keep scrolling past them
• I just consume whatever the feed decides to put in front of me
• It’s the endless passive scrolling through other people’s lives that leaves me hollow and envious
• I open the feed “for a second” and surface twenty minutes later not even sure why I opened it
• There are a handful of accounts I can name that leave me feeling small every single time, and I keep following them anyway

Practices that may help

1. Conduct a quarterly unfollow audit
   Every three months, unfollow or mute any account that consistently produces comparison, envy, or resentment.
   The 2-Hour Social Media Cap
2. Design a media diet with explicit inclusion criteria
   Specify in advance what media you will consume, from which sources, and for how long — rather than consuming whatever the algorithm serves.
   The Attention Economy: Reclaiming Your Focus from Systems Designed to Capture It
3. Replace passive scrolling with active, intentional social media use
   Use social media to create, connect, and respond — not to scroll.
   The 2-Hour Social Media Cap
4. Restrict social media to scheduled daily access windows
   Limit social media to one or two daily slots rather than allowing it to run as a background tab.
   Notification Batching: Taking Back Control of Your Attention
5. Curate your feed to reduce highly idealized and celebrity accounts
   Unfollow or mute accounts whose posts consistently leave you feeling worse about yourself.
   Social Comparison Online: What the Research Actually Shows
6. Designate 2-3 scheduled checking windows per day
   Check social and news feeds only during specific time-boxed windows — not on demand.
   Defending Your Attention in the Attention Economy
7. Distinguish passive from active social media use
   Scrolling and watching (passive) consistently harms wellbeing more than direct messaging and commenting (active).
   Social Comparison Online: What the Research Actually Shows
8. Distinguish between content consumption and genuine connection
   Reserve platform use for genuine social interaction and ruthlessly cut pure content consumption.
   The Attention Economy: Reclaiming Your Focus from Systems Designed to Capture It
9. Practice deliberate curation awareness — remind yourself of what you are not seeing
   When you notice comparison, recall explicitly that you are seeing a highlight reel, not a life.
   Social Comparison Online: What the Research Actually Shows
10. Reserve social media for after 10 AM
    Do not open social media until at least an hour after waking — protect the morning attention window.
    The 2-Hour Social Media Cap

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