Author Heather Carter available for Interviews
When Facebook went down for several hours, it should have been a wake-up call for us all. Our escape from Stockholm Syndrome. Free from our ‘captor,’ or waking up from hypnosis. But did we?
Some did. Others did not. Facebook’s competitor Telegram said they gained 70 million new users during the outage, according to their CEO Pavel Durov. So, does that mean people snapped out of it and were free from our addiction to social media addiction and electronic communication, letting us breathe some outdoor air and smell the flowers? Or did the most addicted of us simply shift to another venue for those six hours that felt like an eternity to some? You know, the people whose brains are internally screaming, “I have to post a selfie and I have to post it NOW!
Joining us to discuss the selfie-addicted culture is Heather Carter, author of the new book “Soul-Selfie #NoFilter.”
Q&A:
Q&A:
- Tell us about this outage and how it is possible that so many people thought the world was going to end because they temporarily lost their connection to Facebook. Are we really that addicted to posting selfies?
- Facebook also owns WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram. Due to this wake-up call, many people have switched to iMessage, Signal, Twitter, or YouTube. In your opinion, is it a simple matter of immediately replacing one selfie-type site with another, or does it run deeper than this?
- In what way, if any, do you think the whole Facebook outage should be a wake-up call for us all?
- In the past, we have had some guests on this show who put out books just a few months after a big event, but this whole Facebook thing happened last week, yet your new book “Soul-Selfie #NoFilter” has a release date of October 26, 2021 release date. How is that possible?
- Answer: Yes, it’s done. It’s printed and available right now for pre-order now on Amazon for shipment on October 26. It’s a second book in a series on breaking free from unhealthy varieties of self-absorption.
- Your publicist tells us that “Soul-Selfie #NoFilter” details our battles with fear, control, ego anxiety, doubt, resentment, comparison, and jealousy. I don’t know about you, but your book sounds a bit like Facebook! How is your book different?
- One item you covered in Soul-Selfie is that you discovered we all struggle with what you call the “plagues of the soul.” Tell us about that.
- There you have it. Heather Carter’s book is Soul-Selfie #NoFilter and is available for pre-order now at Amazon.com. That is if Amazon doesn’t go offline!
About your interview guest, Heather Carter in her words…
My battle with Leukemia in 2015 prompted me to capture what I refer to as “soul-selfies” — candid snapshots of my inner being. I began writing a reflective series of blog posts while in the hospital.
I write a lot about the effects of cancer, addiction, and diseases of the soul—conditions like worry, fear, control, comparison, resentment, to name a few. I am not the only one who has them. I used to worry that when my cancer went into remission, my writing would go into remission with it, but since the diseases of the soul, the ‘common plagues of the heart’ as I call them, are chronic, it seems I will never run out of material. ALL of us are affected by the disease of the soul. Being broken and vulnerable with others is what gives me hope that I can get better.
I continue to write in hopes that readers will know that they can get better too, and they are not alone in their journey.”
Heather Carter was born and raised “all over” the West Coast. Heather and her high school sweetheart husband moved to Missouri and then Illinois for college and graduate school and stayed.
In addition to being an author and speaker, the Springfield, Illinois resident is also a real estate professional and spent 20 years in ministry as a pastor’s wife. Today she and her husband are parents of three grown children.
Her latest book is Soul-Selfie: #NoFilter (October from Carpenter’s Son Publishing.)
For more information, visit https://www.heathercarterwrites.com/
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