5 Things That Happened When I Quit Social Media in 2020

Christa Catana
ILLUMINATION
Published in
8 min readDec 21, 2020

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Photo by freestocks on Unsplash

I’ve learned over time that our minds are more fragile than we like to believe.

At the beginning of the pandemic, family and my own mental wellbeing were more important than my Instagram feed. Seems obvious, but for many of us, it isn’t that simple.

I decided cold turkey erase years of photos, years of memories documented, and virtually cease…

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Christa Catana
ILLUMINATION

Writer and restauranteur in the making. Ex-touring photographer. Encouraging healthy living in low-income communities in an accessible way. I’ve had 40+ jobs.