Make Every Day Peachy
Welcome to my website Peach! If you're looking for a way to feel productive while you're relaxing, you have come to the right place. I used to struggle with doom scrolling, or scrolling while I was watching TV, or scrolling while I was cooking dinner, or scrolling while I was on the toilet... you get the picture. In 2023 I deleted all social Media off of my phone and unplugged. This was for a multitude of reasons, of which I can go into more detail about in another post, but for the purpose of this intro I'll broadly say it was for my overall mental wellbeing.
Now, I had already been crocheting for about 3 years at this point, and I had started knitting all the way back in 2016, but I have always been a creative type, doodling, drawing, sewing, crafting, writing stories, etc. Once I deleted social media though, my creativity exploded. Suddenly I had time to be creative again and was living through a renaissance of my own making. Instead of swiping my finger across a screen, I was fiddling with yarn. Instead of keeping the TV on as background noise, I was living in the stories again. Instead of feeling downtrodden by other people's accomplishments, I was becoming inspired by my own.
I know what you're thinking, "If leaving social media was so great, why did you come back?" I'll say this, my decision to return to social media was very intentional. I still do not keep any of my personal social media accounts on my phone, but after 3 years of honing my skills and learning more about my craft, I longed for community again. I have no interest in being an online persona, but I am very interested in sharing my art and my love of art with people. That is the goal and purpose of this blog and The Productive Peach as an entity. I want to inspire people to be productive again, while also challenging what we believe the definition of productive truly is. I hope you'll stick around 🍑