The combination of "mom brain" and "brain rot" have made me legitimately feel like I'm losing brain cells, so here is what I'm doing to change that

Ten things that I'm implementing to not feel stupid

The other day I turned to Joe and said, “I feel like I’m suddenly stupid”. I don’t mean this is in a negative and self-deprecating way, I am simply just stating a fact. Taking the emotion out of it, I really do feel like my brain has stopped functioning in the ways it once did. I joke about it often, but it actually scares me for not only myself, but also for my future and for the future generations. The way that we are constantly inundated with information, switching between tasks (and tabs), continuously chasing the next piece of content, and being introduced to a new app every year that aims to shorten our attention span - we are doomed. I don’t say this lightly, it terrifies me. (It also brings up a lot of my post-concussion symptom fears and anxiety around memory loss and more personal emotions, but that is a post for another time).

I recently caught myself seriously struggling with word recall, going on in conversations (or filming) while saying incorrect words in replace of the ones I thought I was saying, and unable to remember recent things that happened to me. I even feel it when I sit down to write these Substack pieces: I have the emotions and feelings and can internally rationalize them but have such a hard time putting all of my thoughts into words and, more importantly, sentences that make sense. It feels embarrassing and frustrating and I recently decided enough was enough. So, if you are like me and feel that the brain rot of our technologically focused generation plus becoming a mom has done damage to your brain, here is what I’m implementing…