Desafío Mamá grew, in large part, through Instagram — it is where mothers found me, where the community first gathered. So it surprised even me when I decided to step away from the platform entirely for six months.
I did not leave because social media is evil. I left because I noticed I had stopped being able to sit in stillness without reaching for my phone, and Psalm 46:10’s command to “be still” had quietly become something I could no longer obey, even for five minutes.
The six months were uncomfortable at first — genuine withdrawal, a felt sense that I was missing something important. What I actually found, once the discomfort passed, was a slower kind of attention: to my children’s faces during a conversation instead of glancing at a notification, to prayer that was not competing with a feed for my mind’s attention. I came back to Instagram eventually, because it genuinely does connect me to women who need support. But I came back with boundaries I did not have before, and I have never fully lost that stillness again.