This week, Kathryn Jezer-Morton joins the show to talk about emotional sobriety and the internet. Kathryn writes about digital culture and parenting for many publications, including her fantastic biweekly column for The Cut called “Brooding.” Her new book on social media is called The Story of Your Life. Emotional sobriety is this term that gets used to describe how we manage and regulate difficult emotions without our substance-of-choice. For me, the internet (and social media in particular) challenges my emo...
This week, Kathryn Jezer-Morton joins the show to talk about emotional sobriety and the internet. Kathryn writes about digital culture and parenting for many publications, including her fantastic biweekly column for The Cut called “Brooding.” Her new book on social media is called The Story of Your Life. Emotional sobriety is this term that gets used to describe how we manage and regulate difficult emotions without our substance-of-choice. For me, the internet (and social media in particular) challenges my emotional sobriety on a regular basis. Luckily, I’ve got Kathryn to help me manage the temptations and pitfalls of being alive, online. Join us as we talk portals, friction-maxxing and meditation and try our best to go viral, without losing our way.
00:00:00 Self-promotion realities and writing for dad
00:02:18 Defining emotional sobriety in the digital age
00:04:03 Storytelling vs. social media in the story of your life
00:05:30 Navigating self-promotion without getting lost
00:10:15 Writing about social media vs. storytelling
00:11:39 How photo sharing changed in the carousel era
00:31:26 Entering uncomfortable rooms in recovery and writing
00:35:55 Checking launch day book sales in the publisher portal
00:37:00 Unlearning academic training and handling critiques
00:38:53 Zooming in on personal history and commune childhoods
00:50:30 The brand trap of crafting a public persona
00:57:57 Writing without a master plan
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Topics:
Emotional sobriety in the digital age
Managing your ego's inner bureaucrat
The sickness of author self-promotion
Why social media is like a drug
Book launch reality and sales portals
How grief enhances sensory noticing
Escaping the New York media bubble
Parenting rules for phone meditation
Rejecting the redemption narrative
Writing memoirs vs academic sociology
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