Throughout my life I learned to hide aspects of myself that I felt ashamed of or afraid that others wouldn’t understand and I’ve been trying so hard not to do that anymore. It’s definitely beneficial but hard.
if you cant get yourself to put your phone away quite yet, just get yourself to look at the room behind your phone, or the real world, as a constant practice. its like when the screen used to go black between eisodes of netflix loading. a reality check. it feels good, i promise. foreground the bavkground, even for a moment. be kind to yourself