Soft Blocking My Stress

Apr 22
2 min read

Lately, I’ve started treating my peace like my social media feed. If it doesn’t add value, it gets soft blocked. I don’t have the energy to fully delete people, problems, or panic, but I can quietly restrict their access to my peace.

Bills? Soft blocked. Work drama? Soft blocked. That random wave of guilt for not being a “gentle parent” every single second? Blocked and reported.

I realized I’ve been giving everything unrestricted access to my spirit (notifications from life going off 24/7). So now, I’m curating my emotional feed. I want soft lighting, calm energy, and captions that make sense.

The Emotional Algorithm

My new algorithm is peace-based. If it doesn’t make me laugh, calm, or grow, it doesn’t get engagement.

I’m unfollowing chaos. I’m muting overthinking. And I’m absolutely restricting anyone who shows up in my DMs (or real life) with unsolicited opinions about how I should be living my life.

Soft Blocking in Real Life

Soft blocking my stress looks like:

Ignoring that text that starts with “Wyd…”, "Why you haven't..."
Saying “I’ll check my schedule” knowing good and well I won’t.
Pausing before responding to the ones who loves to test your healing.
Logging out of guilt when I finally choose myself.

Sometimes it’s not about cutting people off, it’s about creating enough distance to breathe again.

The Soft Side Moment

I used to think boundaries made me cold. Now I realize they make me warm in the right places, to myself.

Protecting my peace isn’t selfish. It’s maintenance. Like updating my phone before it crashes. The more I learn to say “not right now,” the more space I create for joy to sneak back in.