Social Media Reset – A 30-Day Guided Journey to Unplug, Reconnect with God, and Reclaim Your Joy by Allie Marie Smith is a recommend devotional style book for young women that need a break or reset from social media and need some encouragement along the way.

Each day is a short reading, with a devotion that will encourage you to step away for 30 days and take an inventory of the effect social media is having on you. You will learn better ways to use technology and learn from God’s Word, along with prayer, reflection, and practical application. This book will encourage you to unfollow the world and follow the ways of God. You will also learn about how social media usage is affecting our culture. Since I have teenagers, this is a concern of mine, and I know many others.

Here are a few highlights from the book:

The onset of social media has coincided with steep increases in anxiety, depression, self-harm, and suicide among young users, especially girls.
If you use your phone for two to three hours a day, you will end up spending roughly six to eight years of your life on your phone. If you use your phone for four or more hours a day, you will end up spending roughly eleven or more years of your life on your phone.
Our fingers were not made to swipe a pixelated screen and watch other people’s lives unfold.
We weren’t made to watch strangers, acquaintances, celebrities, influencers, and even our friends’ lives unfold in perfectly curated filtered photos and 15-second video clips.
We need more of God and less of the world.
We have been made to do hard and holy things and live lives of greatness.
We are to live with eyes wide open. We are urges to live with wisdom and make the most of every borrowed breath we are given. (Ephesians 5:15-16)
Guard your heart and mind and protect your innermost being. We can look at God or the world, light or darkness, good or evil.
Our culture’s collective ambition is to live loudly to generate as much attention and accumulate as much wealth and fame as possible.
We must be gatekeepers of our minds and decide which thoughts stay and which go. (Philippians 4:8)

From the author, Social Media Reset will help you:

Take inventory of social media’s effect on your spiritual, mental, and emotional health
Let go of stress and anxiety and cultivate a life of peace and contentment
Discover life-changing rhythms to enhance your well-being
Draw closer to God and show up for your life with a new level of excitement, joy, and intentionality

While this book wasn’t geared toward my age, I would definitely recommend it to teenage girls and young adult women. So, if you are looking for a change and/or to step away from social media, then pick up this book!

If you're seeking deeper connections, renewed passions, or a more joyful and purposeful life, Social Media Reset can help you refocus on what's important and guide you toward greater fulfillment.