Author says it’s a Good Thing that the social media giant Slew Itself!
Soul-Selfie author Heather Carter available for Interviews
Facebook is back online, much like the barn door is fixed after the horses escaped from the barn, with many of them seeking new homes. Their messaging competitor Telegram says they gained 70 million new users during the outage, according to their CEO Pavel Durov. Although it was only about a six-hour outage, it served as a wake-up call, a time of reflection, and even a healthy pause from social media. At least that’s what our guest Heather Carter believes. She’s the author of the new book, “Soul-Selfie.”
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.
- 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 site with another, or does it run deeper than this?
- In your opinion, what has been the impact of Facebook in our lives—positive or negative?
- You have written a new book titled “Soul-Selfie” that deals with our battles with fear, control, ego anxiety, doubt, resentment, comparison, and jealousy. This 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.” What are those about, and is the solution simply in spending more time on social media?
- Where may we pick up a copy of Soul-Selfie?
About your interview guest, Heather Carter…
Heather Carter began writing while fighting leukemia. “My battle with Leukemia in 2015 prompted me to capture what I refer to as “soul-selfies” — candid snapshots of my inner being,” she writes. “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.” Born and raised “all over” the West Coast, Heather Carter 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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