ナオミ・シマダさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ナオミ・シマダInstagram)「Today marks 4 whole years since @mixedfeelingsbook came out into the world and wow what a trip it is to look back as so much has happened since then, both on a personal and collective level. This book came out a mere 6 months before the pandemic took hold of the world and changed our lives forever. Many of our existences consequentially were forced even more online than ever exacerbating the many already complicated relationships many of us had with social media. I think at the time of writing it, I was slightly nervous about how this book would age as everyone kept calling the subject matter ‘so timely’ but I feel like conversations about the emotional impact of social media have become even more pertinent or even extremely vital as we continue to try and make sense of this ever turbulent world and who we are in it while also existing in this space that has only become more algorithmically lead by capital. This booked helped me see the correlation and recognition that whats playing out in the world is reflecting that what’s going on in our psyches’s. On a personal level this book was huge deal for me as while shopping this book around I was suffering with so much imposter syndrome around my writing, leaving me drowning in a pool of depression I struggled to get out of. Seeing it through and finishing it helped me to exorcise so many of my own shadows that made my relationship to social media complicated in the first place. It helped me believe in my voice and see myself from a whole new much kinder and generative perspective and for the most part helped me create a new much healthier relationship to this space. It was my death and my rebirth. Thank you sweet @sarah_raphael for being my co-pilot/conspirator and taking that wild journey with me! Thank you to our many beautiful collaborators who shared your voices in the book! Thank you @susannah_otter for making it happen! Thank you Nicola Chang for believing in me way before I did! Thank you to everyone who bought it or managed to read it somehow! Your notes and letters were everything! Thank you universe for the lessons that come in all shapes, for continuing to show me the way, humbled + grateful 🩵」9月20日 19時59分