I deleted Insta & FB a month ago. Here's how it's going

And it's been brilliant

Mar 05, 2025

What I get to see on my Pod-Walks =D instead of Doom Scrolling

Hello, my beautiful friends.

Every once in a while I do a little check-in with myself on SubStack Notes and share how my non-Meta social media existence is going. This last share

Beatriz Guzman

wanted me to get into all the nitty-gritty details of my new existence, lol! Instead of keeping it between the two of us, I thought to share it with everyone here. As an untamed explorer of doing all things new and differently, a part of that is sharing. “Share and Tell” vibes. In this case, telling, ha!

For recall, I shared what was going on in my mind that day in I deleted Instagram & FB today if you want to connect with the energy I was in at the moment. In short, it was an intuitive move. A strong energetic push to move away from those platforms because they were no longer aligned with me and my values.

And this wasn’t just any half-hearted move, a pause, a just kidding maybe I’ll come back. I deleted them FOREVER. Forever lost in the interwebs of Internet Space. Where do accounts go when they die? Who knows? Lol. It wasn’t a change I made lightly.

I spent the better part of the last year and a half before the goodbye very informed of the news. Which had its ups and downs — that was an intuitive move as well — constant exposure to the dark side of human nature. The importance of stepping up in the energy of collective boundaries and showing up for our fellow humans. Activism and human rights fed my rebellious spirit. It strengthened my energetic practices in the process. Protecting my energy through self-care while staying informed. So many lessons.

Towards the end — this may resonate with you or not, everyone’s path will be different — I started developing the resonant feeling that activism was not the answer. At least not activism alone. I was — and still am — certain that my personal 1:1 services to help humanity from the individual root cause was a piece of the answer too.

In The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, what we see going on in the world are collective symptoms of our deep individual shadows. Tolle cautions that you can’t address the outer symptoms without addressing the issues within else you run the risk of solidifying systemic failures into reality — that’s a condensed version of a very dense and worthwhile read. Noinner love, inner joy, inner compassion, inner unity, or inner trust. The lack of these inner higher vibrations turns into collective wounds manifesting out into the physical world.

What does this all mean?

YOUR INNER WORK is of the utmost importance! To address the "both/and" in that, not everyone is meant to do the inner work AND each person has sole responsibility for their own inner healing. I’m giving you permission to focus on yourself, gently and with compassion. You have no idea how much your inner healing will affect those around you. How it will spread and vibrate out into the collective. You are a butterfly effect happening on a daily. How cool is that?!

What does this mean in my journey with my work and turning away from social media?

I’m coming to the understanding that Spirit/Universe/Source/God doesn’t give me all the deets because my rebel energy loves to say no. She loves boundaries. And if you haven’t heard me say it on the pod, I don’t have a people-pleasing bone in my body, lol. What I have is leaning in on the vision of my future self in a foreign oceanside living my most aligned life busily creating and in my joy. From that place, I listen to daily clues in my body and intuition as to where I’m going next.

In my non-Meta social media existence, I’ve been feeling SO even and grounded. Living from an overflowing cup rather than running on E all the time. I check in once every day or every couple on the nonsense that’s happening on the news and it feels like awesome — sarcasm of course! — it's still being nonsense.

I come back to my energy because I know where we are all going after this collectively challenging time is over — whenever that happens. I can tap into my energy and my intuition, my messages with ease. Holding focus on the vision and standing grounded in firm action for our collective future. The path forward feels clear with each certain step even though I don’t know what the future holds next — which is honestly the truth for every one of us these days.

As a spoiler alert, I’m getting a sneaky feeling that Live Events are on my horizon based theme I see in my “open doors.” I don’t know what they’ll look like, and as I follow my “open doors” it gets clearer one step at a time, one moment at a time.

One bay-bee 🐝 step at a time.

Xo, Christian Joy

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