Breaking Up (with social media) Is Incredibly Hard to Do.

Ilana Grostern Coaching
5 min readMar 2, 2019

It is SO hard to leave social media. I thought I’d left it, but now I know that in this life, and without much more blood sacrifice, I may never be able to truly pull free.

On November 16, I pulled the plug on Facebook. I was firm about it. In no uncertain terms, I let it know that we were done forever, that the breakup was final. I packed my virtual bags, I thanked it for the beautiful (and pretty horrific) years we spent together, growing, learning, developing awareness (AI tech, anyone?) and self-awareness (me), and I quietly…

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Ilana Grostern Coaching

Somatic and Self-Attunement Coach, philosopher, Stoic, amateur photographer, lover, fighter, mother, woman. http://ilanagrostern.com