The Hidden Impact of Scrolling

For your Magic Note this week, I wanted to explore something that’s been really alive for me around social media and the pressure we feel when we’re creating online.

There are moments when I see someone with more success, more followers, or more engagement, and almost instantly I can feel this pressure rise in my system – like there’s a “right way” to show up, and I’m somehow supposed to match it.

It’s subtle, but powerful.
The mind starts comparing.
The body starts tightening.

Before I know it, I’m no longer connected to my own expression – I’m reacting to someone else’s.

There’s this energetic distortion that starts to form, almost like a thread pulling me outside myself… where my attention begins feeding something that was never actually mine.

And I think so many creators feel this.
We see someone doing things flawlessly, or loudly, or aesthetically, or consistently – and something inside whispers:
“Maybe I should be doing that too.”

Not because it’s aligned, but because it touches the part of us that still questions if we’re enough.

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Returning to Center

What I’ve been learning is that this pressure isn’t a sign we’re doing something wrong.
It’s a sign we’re disconnected from our own center.

This season of winter cocooning is asking us to come back home to ourselves.
To get really honest about what actually feels like our voice…
and what’s just noise we’ve absorbed from everyone else’s highlight reels.

It’s a time for boundaries.
A time to notice what we’re consuming and how it’s impacting our field.
A time to pause when something activates comparison or urgency – and instead of pushing through, reconnect with what’s true for us.

Because when our nervous system is fragile, other people’s expressions can feel like standards we’re required to meet… instead of simply reflections of their own path.

And when we step back – when we stop consuming long enough to actually hear ourselves again — we remember something important:

Our power has never come from performing.

It comes from presence.
From being who we are without apology or distortion.
From the slow, steady rooting into our own frequency beneath all the noise.

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Strengthening the Creative Spirit

This season is offering us an invitation:

To return to our own frequency.
To build deeper intimacy with our expression.
To strengthen the boundaries that protect our creative spirit.

Notice how your body responds when you scroll – whether you tense, compare, or feel urgency.
Your nervous system will always tell you when you’ve absorbed too much.

Before you create, take a moment to clear the noise.
Ask yourself:

“Is what I’m about to share coming from my truth…
or from the projections I’ve picked up?”

When you create from your own lived experience, your work resonates in a deeper way.
When you protect your creative field, your originality has space to breathe.

Authenticity is always louder than performance – even when it’s quiet.

All my love,
Lauren

“I have spent so many seasons of my life ignoring a feeling, only to realize later that the truth behind that feeling had been trying to get my attention the whole time.” – Lauren Eliz Love