Workbook
The News Isn't the Whole Story
A Workbook for Protecting Your Mental Health While Staying Informed About a World That Keeps Getting Harder to Watch
You can stay informed without performing distress as a civic duty.
For the person whose news consumption has quietly become the loudest thing in their emotional life — and who wants to stay informed without being consumed.
The Name It First Experience
The scroll is not informing you. It is costing you something real. This workbook walks you through your consumption patterns and the anxiety driving them. You produce Your News Agreement: a signed document naming consumption boundaries, engagement practices, and a family media plan. The output is not ignorance. It is intention.
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Sample questions
- What are your kids already absorbing from the world around them — the fears, the anger, or the helplessness that is getting in without any conversation to contextualize it?
- What do you need to say to your children about what is happening in the world that you have been putting off because you do not know how to start?
- What would The Family Media Agreement say — clearly and in your household — about how you are going to stay informed, stay functional, and stay a family in a world that keeps getting harder to watch?
Research basis
Sharma & Oliver (doomscrolling, anxiety) / Zillmann (media psychology, emotional regulation) / Neff (self-compassion, civic engagement)
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