Notice, Name, Choose
Notice triggers and body signals, name the pattern without shame, and choose one small action guided by values rather than immediate reassurance.
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Digital book · Manifested Identity
Your Mind Was Not Made for This
Anxiety Relief in the Age of Doomscrolling, Outrage, and Endless Social Feeds. Across twenty-three chapters, Bo McCoy explores how constant checking, outrage, comparison, and information overload can keep the mind on alert. The book's Notice, Name, Choose framework connects awareness with practical changes: interrupting the reach for a phone, setting an information diet, calming the body after the feed, and protecting time for a more intentional life.
- FormatDigital book (PDF)
- Pages380
- Price$7
Find your starting point
Who this book is for
- Readers who feel overwhelmed by news, notifications, doomscrolling, or endless social feeds.
- People noticing comparison, reassurance-seeking, or automatic checking taking over their attention.
- Anyone seeking practical digital boundaries, moments of stillness, and a more intentional relationship with information.
Explore in this book
- Understand the threat loop, doomscrolling, attention-driven feeds, and outrage.
- Explore comparison, uncertainty, emotional contagion, and digital hypervigilance.
- Recognize the anxious body, fragmented attention, and identity shaped by an audience.
- Practice Notice, Name, Choose and interrupt automatic checking habits.
- Build an anxiety-safe information diet, curate your feed, and recover after scrolling.
- Protect mornings and bedtime, relearn stillness, and turn concern into chosen action.
A closer look inside
The reading path
Selected chapters and themes show how the book develops its ideas, from understanding the problem to putting the work into practice.
Why the mind stays on alert
The overview and early chapters introduce the threat loop, Notice, Name, Choose, doomscrolling, and the attention-driven design of the feed.
Outrage, comparison, and uncertainty
Explore outrage as a daily diet, the pressure to perform, constant uncertainty, emotional contagion, and connection that becomes hypervigilance.
The body, attention, and identity
Understand the anxious body, attention in pieces, distorted perceptions of the world, and the effects of living with an imagined audience.
Change the checking pattern
Notice your patterns, interrupt automatic reaching, build an anxiety-safe information diet, and curate the feed that curates you.
Recover and protect your time
Practice calming the body after the feed, protect vulnerable hours, and replace reactive scrolling with chosen activities.
Stillness and a mind reclaimed
Relearn unfilled time, consider a sustainable definition of being informed, and bring digital boundaries into everyday life.
From reading to practice
Practical tools for everyday digital boundaries
The book includes learning objectives, key insights, reflection questions, and named exercises to help you examine habits and try small changes.
The 30-Account Edit
Review the accounts that shape your feed and make deliberate choices about what you continue to see.
The Three-Minute Feed Recovery Reset
Use a short reset after scrolling to recognize your state and return attention to your body and immediate surroundings.
The Two Protected Windows
Protect the bookends of your day with boundaries around morning and bedtime exposure.
The “Instead of Scrolling” List
Prepare alternative actions that reconnect you with the life in front of you when the urge to scroll returns.
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