Richa Gangopadhyay Instagram – The world is messed up. You might be overwhelmed dealing with one negative incident coming to the surface after another. If you’re an empath, like myself, you might be someone who senses and feels emotions as if they are part of your own experience.⁣ ⁣ 🙏🏼Take time for yourself, friend.⁣ ⁣ It’s okay to grieve, be angry, to disconnect. It’s especially hard to keep up with the pressures of the social media world- where you are damned if you do, damned if you don’t address a certain issue. You don’t have to bear the world’s burdens. The constant consumption of social media makes it hard for us to leave…and while there are benefits to social media, it can also become toxic real fast. It’s a slippery slope. Always remember that what you see on social media isn’t the full story and it can get extremely polarizing and isolating if you can’t learn to detach from it. Don’t let it become all consuming.👀 ⁣ 🙏🏼Take care of your mind, first.⁣ ⁣ If you are advocating for change through your involvement in various efforts, great. But if you are not, it doesn’t mean you aren’t passionate, are selfish or don’t care about issues going on in the world. Social media makes it hard to keep up, the constant expectations are exhausting to deal with and can deplete all your emotional, mental and physical energy staring at your screen and scrolling to no end.👀🤳 ⁣ Just remember that you can’t fully dedicate your time and energy towards structural change if you don’t focus on investing time in keeping yourself healthy, first.✨⁣ ⁣ Take breaks every now and then. Don’t feel guilty for needing to unplug from technology, even if it’s for a few hours. Surround yourself with positive affirmations and remember that amidst all the cruelty in the world right now, there IS good happening too. I’m not saying put blinders on and ignore what is happening around you, but it’s also OKAY to disconnect and reset.⁣ 🧘🏻‍♀️🧘🏽‍♂️🧘🏼🧘🏿‍♀️🧘🏻‍♂️🧘🏽🧘🏿‍♂️⁣ ⁣ ⁣ 🙏🏼Your mind and soul need it more than you know.⁣ ⁣ ⁣ Here is a picture of a cute succulent (that Joe bought for me bc he’s the best and knows they’re my favorite!) that hopefully brings a litttttle bitty sense of calm to your mind 💕⁣.