246. Quit Social Media: Find Peace and Freedom Again | Sandy Cooper of The Scoop on Balance

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

The impact of social media consumption cannot be overstated. After struggling with her own technology boundaries for years, Sandy finally decided to leave all social media platforms completely, but she thought she was alone in this battle. It didn’t take long for her to realize that there were countless other women experiencing the same negative effects of living overconnected. If you have been feeling a stirring to radically change your relationship with the internet, this conversation will give you the courage you need to take the next step. In this episode, we cover: How Sandy got started creating content on the internet and why she ultimately left social media completely A look at how the internet has changed over the years Addressing the biggest fears and inconveniences of leaving social media Examining the addictive power of social media A theory of why life feels like it is passing us by faster and faster What constant consumption does to our brains Coming out on the other side of social media addiction Changing your relationship with social media as an online business owner How technology is changing adolescence View full show notes on the blog + watch this episode on YouTube. Thank you for supporting the sponsors that make this show possible! ABOUT SANDY Sandy Cooper is an award-winning author of three books, a podcaster, and a professionally certified home chef. She has been a wife to Jon for over 30 years and is mom to three kids ages 17 to 25 and a 9-month-old son in Heaven. She has been helping frazzled moms find peace since 2008 at thescooponbalance.com and is the co-founder of Writing Off Social, where she helps female Christian writers grow their audience without social media. She podcasts weekly at The Balanced MomCast and Writing Off Social: The Podcast from her home office in Florida, where she lives with her family. RESOURCES The Balanced MomCast Podcast Writing Off Social CONNECT Sandy Cooper of The Scoop on Balance | Website | Substack | Email: [email protected] Lisa Bass of Farmhouse on Boone | Blog | YouTube | Instagram | TikTok | Facebook | Pinterest Do you have a question you’d like me to answer on the podcast? A guest you’d like me to interview? Submit your questions and ideas here: bit.ly/SFLquestions.

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0:00.0	A lot of things that I thought that I needed, I realized I didn't really need.
0:05.0	And once I got all of that informational clutter out of my mind,
0:10.0	I enjoyed that so much more than knowing what every single person was doing all the time and their thoughts on everything and then other people's thoughts about their thoughts.
0:21.0	It was too much and I realized I didn't really need what I
0:24.8	thought I needed. My name is Lisa, mother of eight and creator of the blog and
0:29.9	YouTube channel Farmhouse on Boone. Join me as I share with you my love for creating
0:34.4	a handmade home from scratch cooking
0:36.7	and a little mom and entrepreneur life along the way. Welcome back to the Simple Farm House Life Podcast. Today we are going to be
0:49.4	chatting again about social media. Might get tired of this topic.
0:53.3	I personally love the constant reminders
0:55.8	because part of living a simple life
0:57.5	is working with your own hands, it's producing, over consuming,
1:01.1	and one of the biggest ways that we can get distracted from that or I personally can is by scrolling my phone and not keeping that in check and I've met some very inspiring people and authors who have put this into practice in their own lives and one of which is Sandy Cooper who is going to join us today. Right, well let's jump into the interview. Sandy, thank you so much for joining me. I'm really excited to talk about this topic.
1:23.7	My listeners might get tired of this topic because I talk about it all the time.
1:27.5	As somebody who still very much uses social media, I also have a hate relationship with it as well. So I think it's fun to talk about.
1:36.5	So first let's introduce you, tell us about yourself and then just a little bit about your
1:40.8	mission behind leaving social media and what that looks like.
1:44.6	Yeah, so my name is Sandy Cooper. I podcast over at the balanced momcast, which is a podcast for
1:52.1	overwhelmed Christian moms. I also have a second
1:55.4	podcast called writing off social and that is for female Christian writers who want to
2:00.1	grow and nurture their audience without social media. I've been writing since 2008 over at the
2:06.0	Scoop on Balance, which is incidentally the same year that I opened my first social media account, which we can talk about that and I am a mom to
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