How to Remove Toxicity from Your Life (a step by step guide)
1. Try deleting social media for a few days. The ones where you have the most contact with others. (For me, Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook) if you have streaks on snapchat, have someone keep them from you. Deleting the most popular social media apps can prevent drama, jealousy, and wasted days browsing the internet.
2. With your newfound freedom, go on a walk. Try an evening walk around a pond or a lake and watch the sunset. Maybe take a few pictures of the sunset. (Even better, don’t bring your phone and sit on the sidewalk, enjoying the outside.)
3. Pack a picnic and go somewhere different. If it’s winter, dark, cold, or you don’t have a car, make a small sandwich and stare out a window. Observe things you hadn’t seen before.
4. Try listening to new music. Listen to a genre you never have before. Try listening (if you can handle it) to Ola Gjielo or other choral music. Experience a different type of music that you never would have before.
5. Really think about your relationships. Think about all the ways you love the people in your life and write it down. Maybe even make simple little cards and give them to your friends and family.
6. Do that thing. You know, the one you’ve wanted to do for a while.
7. Try something new. Skateboarding, surfing, taking pictures, go on a drive somewhere new, donate money somehwere.. something that excites you or that is simply different.
8. Make a private list (private as in keep it to yourself) of all the things you love about yourself. And really think.
9. Spend time working to better the things you don’t like. But don’t fixate on the negative parts of yourself. That will just bring completely unnecessary negativity into your life.
10. Spend time with your loved ones. Go somewhere new with a family member or a friend. Don’t bring any money for anything but food and gas. Go to a park in a different city. Go stargazing somewhere cozy. Stop worrying about monetary values and spending money on activities.
11. Go ice skating/roller blading. Yes, disregarding number 10, spend a little money on something sweet and “old-fashioned.” Enjoy life in all its little ways.
12. Most importantly, make the time to love yourself. Build yourself up. Don’t rely on other people to make you happy. Step number one really helps with that. Disconnecting from the most toxic social media apps can help you focus on loving yourself, and not relying on other people to give you reassurance in yourself.
