Civic Survival Kit
Protect your peace by managing what comes in. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is decide what you won't let into your head.
Your attention is a resource. Everyone wants a piece of it. The news. Social media. That relative who won't stop sending you YouTube videos. The outrage machine that profits from keeping you activated 24/7.
Setting boundaries isn't about checking out. It's about being intentional with your limited capacity. You can't fight for anything if you've given yourself away to everything.
Talk through your situation and get help with:
What's getting through that shouldn't be?
Check news twice a day at set times. Morning and evening. That's it. You'll still know what's happening. You won't miss anything that actually affects your life.
Muting isn't unfriending. They won't know. You can still check their page if you want. But their stuff won't show up uninvited. Use this power freely.
Your feed is not a democracy. Unfollow accounts that make you feel worse. Follow ones that inform without destroying you. You control this.
The last thing you see before sleep and first thing in the morning shouldn't be the news. Give yourself bookends of peace.
"I can't talk about politics right now" is a complete sentence. You don't have to explain. You don't have to debate. You can just... not.
Turn off news notifications. If something is important enough, you'll hear about it. The push notification isn't serving you. It's serving them.