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God + Mental Health Podcast · Roslyn Rene

Social Media + Mental Health , Learning vs. Self-Criticism (Part III)

March 5, 2023·46 min·1 clip
The host opens the episode as a throwback from 2021 and places it in the middle of a three-part social media and mental health series. She tells listeners to go back and hear parts one and two if they have not listened yet. The main question is simple: is social media teaching you something, or is it becoming a source of self-criticism? That question shapes the whole conversation. She treats comparison as one of the first traps. Scrolling can make people measure themselves against other lives, other opinions, and other standards. From there, she moves into the way people receive criticism. She points out that perception is shaped by experience, so the same words can land as guidance, shame, projection, or something else entirely. She also acknowledges that not everyone speaks from high integrity, and that some people take feedback better in different tones than others. She keeps coming back to the idea that maturity changes what you can hold without breaking. A younger version of yourself may have folded under a comment that you can now weigh more calmly. The practical test is straightforward: does this make me feel bad, or is this actually helpful? She brings that question back under a Christian lens by asking what God has confirmed and what God's word says. If something does not line up with that confirmation, the episode suggests there is no need to keep carrying it. The close turns toward a break from podcasting and a run of upcoming faith, business, testimony, and therapy conversations.

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A faith-based Part III on learning from social media without letting comparison turn inward.

Part III stays with the friction between learning from social media and sliding into self-criticism. It keeps circling comparison, perception, integrity, and how the same comment can be received in different ways, then ties that back to a faith-based test of what is actually…

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