Are you part of the ‘distraction economy’?

In a world built to capture our attention, constant distraction does more than hurt productivity—it quietly erodes self-knowledge.

A client  once described to me what happened after they had lived through a traumatic assault. For a long time, life stayed busy enough that they rarely had to think about it. Work, obligations, and everyday distractions filled the hours. Whether intentionally or not, staying occupied kept the past at a distance. Then one day things slowed down. There was a rare stretch of quiet. And in that quiet the memory returned all at once, like a tsunami.