Breaking the (News) Cycle

From my Newsletter in September 2025

A little under a decade ago, I stopped watching the news. It made me too anxious. Angry. Stressed. Worried. My parents, who have a morning ritual of watching CNN, were concerned that I’d be uninformed.

“But how will you know what’s going on?” they asked.

“I’ll know,” I said. “It’s everywhere.”

And that has proven true. Skipping the news has kept me sane: no news shows, no radio (sorry, NPR. I loved you once). I finally deleted Facebook from my phone last January.

It helped for a while. But the Times’ The Morning is still delivered daily to my inbox. I’m still on Instagram. I still notice the price of groceries rising, healthcare and home insurance going up. The news is everywhere, and sometimes it seems like it might be scarier not to know.

Yesterday morning, the Times was particularly bleak (it usually is, but that one got me). I read it over breakfast after my daughter went to school, and my mood went down fast. Scared. Sad. Angry. Frustrated. Anxious. Stressed. I wanted to curl up in a little ball and cry – but I had to work. And as we all know, crying isn’t going to fix the world.

In that moment I realized why this all affects me so powerfully. My creative brain thrives on new ideas. I love ideating, visioning, brainstorming. But when I feed my brain horror, it generates more horror - not at all what I want or need.

The world won’t calm down because I stop consuming the news. But I won’t make any of it any better by holding all of its stress. In fact, when I try to take on the weight of the world I end up completely drained.

I’m not suggesting total ignorance – it’s too important to be aware. But I don’t need to know the daily details. It’s been a long time since I’ve engaged in a truly civil debate where I felt like both sides were listening. Facts have been devalued. Luckily, my husband is far steadier at holding headlines than I am. When something is important, we can look things up together.

My practice moving forward is to focus on what is going well. When I take a look around, there’s a lot that I am grateful for. I’m unsubscribing from The Morning (sorry, NYT. I loved you once). I’m cutting back on Instagram (especially before coffee). I’m incorporating more of what makes me happy: connection, family, creating, baking.

By feeding myself love, I hope to generate love.

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