Returning to our simple, QUIET life (without social media)
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In today’s video, I am sharing with you my experience leaving social media (Instagram) and returning to our simple, quiet life! Quieting the constant noise in my head and simply living each moment for what it is. We live, love, and thrive in what some might call a BORING life. Soaking up every moment and going at our own pace…just the way we like. Quieting the noise and just living out life in the present moment. Leaving Instagram has been such a positive thing for me in this season of our life. It brought many blessings but also a whole lot of weight and noise. This has been my personal experience, and it feels so good to return to the life I knew before IG. I hope this video encourages you in whatever season you may be walking through.
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I have loved returning to our quiet, simple life, without Instagram! Thank you for understanding my heart and allowing me to share my experience in this space! I am so grateful for each one of you amazing women who make up this community! I also understand that we all are in different seasons! I am in a season of cleaning out all excess, and IG was one of those heavy loads I was carrying. A distraction from the life happening right in front of me. It feels so good to breathe again! Living in the present, right where I want to be! Have a blessed day, Mama! I truly appreciate you! ❤
My FB and IG were hacked a few months ago, they got my Amazon account also. I took it as Yahuah (God) telling me to listen to him and close my accounts. I couldn’t log back in to any of those accounts and I don’t care😊. I haven’t looked back, it was freeing! Our precious moments are for us and our families and Yahuah❤❤❤
Im so happy that your family is able to escape from everyday life and enjoy the calmness and simplicity of the cabin life.
I long for a simple life. Don’t really care about THINGS.
Would love a place to go to for a few days a month that just gives me quiet time, for just me and God.
To just sit still and absorb His beauty.
God has a way of removing things from our life that really are a hindrance.
So thankful that He sees and knows ALL!
I’m so glad that you post these videos; they bring to me what I’m not able to obtain! (Hope that makes sense)
I have such a similar journey with social media! I was using both FB and Instagram for my business. I felt like I was always trying to do more things so I had stuff to post. It was exhausting and I hated it. I realized I liked my life being boring and quiet, and that’s not very compatible with an active social media. I got off Instagram 2 years ago, and FB shortly after that. And it led to God leading me to close my business completely to focus on my family. It was the best decision ever! I look back at that season and just feel immense relief that I no longer have that pressure.
Escaping and doing things as a family is so special! The wild flowers are beautiful! God's beauty everywhere ❤
Love it.
I got off fb a couple years ago. I was doing an online business that although good, was not bringing me joy but rather weight and stress. It has been so good to be free of that and, the negativity and drama.
I moved to watching amazing Christian YouTube content that has been a huge blessing and led to positive changes in my life. ❤
Thank you for sharing this .The boring life is perfect for us 💗maybe somewhat boring mundane life ….🙌🏻
Preach it sister ! This is so encouraging. God has been speaking to me about living for Him alone 🙌🏻
I hear you Jamie! I cannot do social media. I had to cut it out of my life totally 2-3 yrs ago and NO regrets. It is so toxic for our minds. I live a very simple, boring life too. I watch very selective you tube channels, so I am in charge of what I am seeing, unlike on social media.
Thank you for sharing! Forgoing social media is a narrow road in this day and age. Good for you for following the still small voice calling you to be simple and quiet 💕
I quit FB/Instagram years ago, best decision.
I’ve been off since august 2020. Almost 3 years. My life is a new world. It’s the best thing in the whole world. Social media is crippling – Instagram specifically.
Soooo glad you shared this. Simplicity is FULL🙌🙌
Your sentiments about the time spent on social media are similar to the way I have felt about it. I have considered starting a simple YouTube channel just to share some of the world around me. However, I don't like to spend time interacting online or getting distracted by scrolling. It happens, but I don't want to open the door for more distractions. Keeping things simple is important to me. I love the beautiful content you share. Thank you for sharing your special moments with us.
Interesting that you posted this today because I just got off FB last week. I don't do other platforms just FB but it was consuming me with guilt and jealousy. Seeing other mama's take their kids on vacations I can't afford, in their fancy houses, with all their perfect friends is so hard to watch. All I felt was not good enough. Even watching your video now is hard because we live in an apartment. We don't have a cabin and aren't outdoor people. We live in OK and have been here 5 years and haven't made any real friends. All our family is 7 hours away from us. I am also an introvert so needless to say I feel like an inadequate homeschool mama most days. I'm not getting my kids out as much and can't give them things most homeschool mama's can. It's so hard. The jealousy was taking me over. I'm new on my journey of being content and not comparing but it's so hard. I constantly feel guilt and that I'm not doing enough and my fear is lack of guilt because I see so many people feel no guilt and they become very complacent. Sometimes I have to remind myself that people are looking at my life and wishing they had what I have.
The only social media that either myself or hubby was FB. We both decided to leave it more than 9 years ago. Best decision hands down!!
We are a homesteading family in the Ozarks and we love this life we get to live, even on the hard days we are blessed. Thanks for sharing.
Blessings, Linda
I couldn't agree with you more! I started my small YouTube channel and was told I needed other platforms to introduce my channel to grow, and I disagree. I deleted IG and FB, post once a day and only regular videos, not even shorts and is working fine. God is faithful and is asking for our attention and this busy world is distracting us all and stealing our peace and quiet life! Blessings ❤🙏
As always… appreciate all that you put out in your videos… encourages me as I too am desiring and pursuing a simple and quiet life which can feel so lonely at times compared to the hustle of everyone else I know… your videos always bring comfort and encouragement! ❤
I wish I could give this a million likes. I feel the same way about social media. I left facebook about 10 years ago and I really want to quit instagram I just haven’t taken it off my phone yet. I need to just do it. Beautiful video and I love a life full of love and growing relationships with my family and friends so much more rich then watching it on a screen. Blessing to you and your family ♥️ 🥰 🙏🏼
The 40day social media fast by Wendy speake, was a blessing to me! I was feeling some sort of way and decided to log off. It really is crippling…
I’m not kidding, I felt and thought everything you said in this video. That just confirms it for me, and hearing you saying these things, encourages me more than you can even imagine! I’m Another fellow social media free mama here! (4yrs and going on!🙋🏻♀️ (minus YouTube…and I’ve actually started the journey and deleting the app off of my phone every so often and not using it for a few days at a time.) Sooo many benefits from going social media free that I can’t even begin. If anyone is considering doing the same, don’t hesitate! Go ahead and do it!!
You talk about a “boring” life, and it’s something that’s been on my mind a lot lately. I was trying to be that mom that did all of the “fun” things for the kids. Trampoline parks, park, amusement parks, water parks, sensory bin galore, big outside water day, etc. what I noticed was that I was giving my children HUGE expections ALL of the time. And when, for whatever reason, the next time it wasn’t that big or that extravagant, they became entitled and ungrateful. So, I started to purposely “plan” “boring” days. Their attitude have shifted DRAMATICALLY! It really has done wonders. From now on, we say no to those “extravagant” things 99.9% of the time. Not to mention, we save TONS of money and energy to spend on other things. I feel such a connection to you because we to are a hunting family. My husband already has the itch again and is trying to get me to tag along for his CO hunt this yr…it’ll be our first time since having my oldest 6 years ago! We went when he was 9mo mule deer hunting, and got a small 2×2. Anyways, thanks for sharing what’s on your heart! It helped me to keep pressing on and to not put myself down for the decisions we’ve made for our family! 🙂
Totally relate to ALL of this! I prayed for a long for the Lord to help me break my social media addiction and I am SO thankful that He answered that prayer! ❤ So much life is waiting to happen outside these screens!
The cabin is so beautiful. And I totally get it mama. Enjoy the gifts that god has given. Thankful we got to meet on the gram. And I’m happy you still post in this space. You have always been a blessing to me and our homeschool. Enjoy every moment mama.❤️
I share the same feelings about Instagram.
Thank you for doing this video!!! I NEEDED to hear this today! I have felt so anxious lately and have been trying to step away from social media. Your video may just be the aha moment I needed to simply walk away and not look back! I love your videos and am so glad I can find you here, in times when I feel I need encouragement or to just watch a video and relax in a time of my choosing. Thank you for being a blessing in my life!
Love your simple living, our life too is very simple and also may appear boring to others but that's how we love to live it's what works for us.