Too sensitive for world news
Hi everyone,
Would you want to consume news without it affecting you?
A few years ago I decided it was okay that I didn't watch or read the news anymore. My sensitivity to it meant my nervous system just couldn't handle it. I would shut down, sometimes for a whole day. I couldn't work. I couldn't function very well because I'd be so overwhelmed. Opting out felt like the only way to keep myself okay.
Have you done that too?
Then one day a colleague mentioned she'd had to cancel plans because of a bomb at an airport. I hadn't even known there was a war happening. That moment sat with me. I realised I really did want to be informed, because then I could decide how I show up and how I help. I just didn't want to be informed at the expense of my own nervous system and my own health and wellbeing.
So I built myself a tool that collates the most important world news and pertinent Australian news each week (the kind that affects the daily lives of families and communities). Filtered for sensitivity: fact-based, without sensationalism, trigger words, or graphic language. Enough to know what's going on in my world. Not so much that it takes the rest of the day from me.
I mentioned it to a friend and she was keen to try so I created it as an email out for her. I called it *The Considered Brief*, because that's exactly what it tries to be: news that has been considered before it reaches us.
Would that interest any of you Australian HSPs?