Reaping the social-connection benefits of social media requires being vulnerable, according to digital-health experts.
Here’s how to do that.
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Bybeing more vulnerableon social media, we can insert some real intimacy into the otherwise mindless scroll.
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Bea Arthur, LMHC, is a psychotherapist, entrepreneur, and author.
Thats because, to get to be vulnerable, you oughta feel safe.
Bea Arthur, LMHC, is a psychotherapist, entrepreneur, and author. Her last company In Your Corner (formerly Pretty Padded Room) was a pioneer of the e-therapy movement and was one of the first to deliver mental healthcare online. Bea’s latest venture, The Difference, takes her mission even further by providing on-demand access to live therapists as Amazon’s first mental-health Alexa Skill.
And safety simply wasnt at the heart of Twitter or Facebooks initial roadmap, says Austin.
and infuse the current social landscape with a sense of much-needed realness.
Ill scroll back on someones profile to 2018, and its like, they havent missed.
I think the difficulty in being vulnerable is that its uncomfortable viewing, isnt it?
Its not going to be a massive soul-bearing for everyone, says Goodin.
But every so often, we need to say, This is my reality.
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Bea Arthur, LMHC, is a psychotherapist, entrepreneur, and author. Her last company In Your Corner (formerly Pretty Padded Room) was a pioneer of the e-therapy movement and was one of the first to deliver mental healthcare online. Bea’s latest venture, The Difference, takes her mission even further by providing on-demand access to live therapists as Amazon’s first mental-health Alexa Skill.
