The Mark Groves Podcast #506: You Are What You Consume
Apr 6, 2026
A call to take radical responsibility for what you let into your mind, body, and relationships. How constant exposure to fear and division dysregulates your nervous system. The tension between belonging and authenticity and the grief that comes with awakening. A challenge to fiercely curate attention to protect hope, peace, and connection.
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Curate Your Information Diet
- Curate your information diet and protect your peace by choosing what news and media you consume instead of letting it hijack your mind.
- Mark Groves urges you to put down news that steals hope and prioritize inputs that preserve your psyche and hope.
Media Overload Dysregulates Your Nervous System
- Constant exposure to fear and negativity dysregulates the nervous system and drives people to seek regulation techniques like breathwork.
- Mark Groves connects media inundation with a need for nervous system tools because the world is designed to keep you dysregulated.
Awakening Brings Grief And Expanded Feeling
- Awakening to your own grief and anger expands you to the full spectrum of human experience, making life both more painful and more beautiful.
- Mark Groves explains many numb with vices like alcohol or porn to avoid feeling this heightened sensitivity.
