Why I Quit Drinking, Dating, and Social Media Apps

About this episode

Erin Patten discusses her personal journey of quitting drinking, dating, and social media, highlighting the benefits of subtraction in achieving alignment and personal growth.

In this episode, I'm getting honest about the season I've been quietly walking through. I haven't been on a date in months. I've stopped drinking. I deleted Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, and Facebook from my phone. I'm not going out on weekends. And my life, my business, and my alignment have never been more dialed in.   I'm calling it The Great Subtraction. And I am very much not the only woman in it.   There's a quiet movement underway among high-achieving women right now — an abstinence economy, a sacred withdrawal, a season of nothing that is actually a season of everything. We're stepping away from the cocktails, the dating apps, the constant content, the swipe-left-swipe-right disposable economy of attention. Not out of restriction. Out of recognition.   This conversation is about why subtraction is one of the most strategic spiritual moves you can make. It's about the mirror principle — how the chaos in your inner world is showing up directly in your business, your money, your relationships — and why deleting an app, declining a drink, or saying no to a date can do more for your next-level than another strategy session ever will.   𝗜𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀…

People in this episode

Host: Erin Patten

Topics covered

• abstinence economy
• self-reflection
• social media detox
• personal growth
• spiritual strategy

Keywords

• quitting drinking
• dating apps
• social media detox
• personal alignment
• mirror principle
• high-achieving women
• spiritual moves

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