Mental Health: Going On A Cleanse
Mar. 1st, 2025 11:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
notquiteisraeliNo, not the physical kind. (My liver and kidneys, B"H, are doing that job just fine.) No, I deactivated my Facebook and Instagram accounts and deleted my longstanding blog, Not Quite Israeli.
NQI has run its course. As I explained in a letter to my readers, I want to present another side of myself to the world: positive, professional, focused. I started a new blog, with a specific focus on TEFL/TESOL, the CELTA program, and starting a small business offering English classes. I may start Facebook and Instagram pages for my business when the time comes, but that's it.
As for my personal Facebook and Instagram pages...I haven't checked Facebook in quite some time. There's no need for me to have a page up there. I still use Messenger, but that's it. And Instagram? Well, it was just getting too toxic. I saw the symptoms, and I didn't like where it was going.
The new blog is called Limmud Anglit (find it here) - Hebrew for "English Study." It's also the name of my small business (and yes, I have purchased the domain name). I'm branding myself. In a good way. Starting small.
Have I abandoned all social media? Well, I'm still here. Clearly I need this outlet. I'm still on Pinterest, looking for recipes, embroidery stuff, plus size fashion, makeup, skin care, writing, and - most recently - stretching exercises for beginners. The curated nature of Pinterest is a big plus, and I see positive content there - in fact, I got a great recipe for the birthday cake I'm making for my father-in-law this week. So it's quite useful.
I am considering starting up another blog, based on an idea from one of the CELTA teachers. Apparently she's in a super seekrit Facebook group with the Big Names in TEFL/TESOL - Jeremy Harmer, Scott Thornbury - where their parlor game is creating themed music playlists. That tickled me so much, I'm thinking of starting up a blog where I do the same. After CELTA. Because I have two more lessons to teach, and one more paper to write, and a bunch of learning platform modules to go. But in two weeks, I'll have that certificate, and I'll be a teacher.
Now that's something better than a million likes or a million followers.
NQI has run its course. As I explained in a letter to my readers, I want to present another side of myself to the world: positive, professional, focused. I started a new blog, with a specific focus on TEFL/TESOL, the CELTA program, and starting a small business offering English classes. I may start Facebook and Instagram pages for my business when the time comes, but that's it.
As for my personal Facebook and Instagram pages...I haven't checked Facebook in quite some time. There's no need for me to have a page up there. I still use Messenger, but that's it. And Instagram? Well, it was just getting too toxic. I saw the symptoms, and I didn't like where it was going.
The new blog is called Limmud Anglit (find it here) - Hebrew for "English Study." It's also the name of my small business (and yes, I have purchased the domain name). I'm branding myself. In a good way. Starting small.
Have I abandoned all social media? Well, I'm still here. Clearly I need this outlet. I'm still on Pinterest, looking for recipes, embroidery stuff, plus size fashion, makeup, skin care, writing, and - most recently - stretching exercises for beginners. The curated nature of Pinterest is a big plus, and I see positive content there - in fact, I got a great recipe for the birthday cake I'm making for my father-in-law this week. So it's quite useful.
I am considering starting up another blog, based on an idea from one of the CELTA teachers. Apparently she's in a super seekrit Facebook group with the Big Names in TEFL/TESOL - Jeremy Harmer, Scott Thornbury - where their parlor game is creating themed music playlists. That tickled me so much, I'm thinking of starting up a blog where I do the same. After CELTA. Because I have two more lessons to teach, and one more paper to write, and a bunch of learning platform modules to go. But in two weeks, I'll have that certificate, and I'll be a teacher.
Now that's something better than a million likes or a million followers.
