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Social Media Reset: A 30-Day Guided Journey to Unplug, Reconnect with God, and Reclaim Your Joy
Discover the joy, freedom, and flourishing life that comes with taking a social media break.
We long for a life that is full of connection with God, ourselves, and others. Yet we’ve become programmed to seek peace, contentment, and happiness from our phones. Deep down, we know this isn’t how we were created to live. As endless scrolling leaves us feeling anxious, depressed, distracted, and alone, we realize our true needs can’t be met by turning to social media.
If you feel like your digital life could use a reset, you’re not alone. Allie Marie Smith, life coach and author of Wonderfully Made, has walked this road and found a more fulfilling life. In Social Media Reset, she invites you to pause for 30 days and seek restoration in your mind, heart, body, and soul. While the thought of a social media break can feel daunting, Allie is a wise and compassionate guide who will help youtake inventory of social media’s effects on your spiritual, mental, and emotional healthlet go of stress and anxiety to cultivate a life of peace and contentmentdiscover life-changing rhythms to enhance your well-beingdraw closer to God and show up for your life with a new level of excitement, joy, and intentionalityWhether you’re looking to find true connection, rediscover your passions, or embrace a new way of life that brings you joy, Social Media Reset will help you reconnect with what truly matters and guide you toward a purposeful life you love.
We long for a life that is full of connection with God, ourselves, and others. Yet we’ve become programmed to seek peace, contentment, and happiness from our phones. Deep down, we know this isn’t how we were created to live. As endless scrolling leaves us feeling anxious, depressed, distracted, and alone, we realize our true needs can’t be met by turning to social media.
If you feel like your digital life could use a reset, you’re not alone. Allie Marie Smith, life coach and author of Wonderfully Made, has walked this road and found a more fulfilling life. In Social Media Reset, she invites you to pause for 30 days and seek restoration in your mind, heart, body, and soul. While the thought of a social media break can feel daunting, Allie is a wise and compassionate guide who will help youtake inventory of social media’s effects on your spiritual, mental, and emotional healthlet go of stress and anxiety to cultivate a life of peace and contentmentdiscover life-changing rhythms to enhance your well-beingdraw closer to God and show up for your life with a new level of excitement, joy, and intentionalityWhether you’re looking to find true connection, rediscover your passions, or embrace a new way of life that brings you joy, Social Media Reset will help you reconnect with what truly matters and guide you toward a purposeful life you love.
190 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 15, 2025
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Allie Marie Smith
4 booksAllie Marie Smith is an award-winning author, speaker, podcast host, and life coach. She is also the founder and CEO of Wonderfully Made, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to helping girls and women know their God-given value and identity, experience vibrant mental health, and lead flourishing lives. She lives in Santa Barbara County, where she loves writing, playing with horses, surfing, and adventuring up and down the California coast. She lives in Santa Barbara County, where she loves writing, playing with horses, surfing, and adventuring up and down the California coast. Visit her website at alliemariesmith.com.
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February 24, 2025
Social Media Reset – A 30-Day Guided Journey to Unplug, Reconnect with God, and Reclaim Your Joy by Allie Marie Smith is a recommend devotional style book for young women that need a break or reset from social media and need some encouragement along the way.
Each day is a short reading, with a devotion that will encourage you to step away for 30 days and take an inventory of the effect social media is having on you. You will learn better ways to use technology and learn from God’s Word, along with prayer, reflection, and practical application. This book will encourage you to unfollow the world and follow the ways of God. You will also learn about how social media usage is affecting our culture. Since I have teenagers, this is a concern of mine, and I know many others.
Here are a few highlights from the book:
The onset of social media has coincided with steep increases in anxiety, depression, self-harm, and suicide among young users, especially girls.
If you use your phone for two to three hours a day, you will end up spending roughly six to eight years of your life on your phone. If you use your phone for four or more hours a day, you will end up spending roughly eleven or more years of your life on your phone.
Our fingers were not made to swipe a pixelated screen and watch other people’s lives unfold.
We weren’t made to watch strangers, acquaintances, celebrities, influencers, and even our friends’ lives unfold in perfectly curated filtered photos and 15-second video clips.
We need more of God and less of the world.
We have been made to do hard and holy things and live lives of greatness.
We are to live with eyes wide open. We are urges to live with wisdom and make the most of every borrowed breath we are given. (Ephesians 5:15-16)
Guard your heart and mind and protect your innermost being. We can look at God or the world, light or darkness, good or evil.
Our culture’s collective ambition is to live loudly to generate as much attention and accumulate as much wealth and fame as possible.
We must be gatekeepers of our minds and decide which thoughts stay and which go. (Philippians 4:8)
From the author, Social Media Reset will help you:
Take inventory of social media’s effect on your spiritual, mental, and emotional health
Let go of stress and anxiety and cultivate a life of peace and contentment
Discover life-changing rhythms to enhance your well-being
Draw closer to God and show up for your life with a new level of excitement, joy, and intentionality
While this book wasn’t geared toward my age, I would definitely recommend it to teenage girls and young adult women. So, if you are looking for a change and/or to step away from social media, then pick up this book!
Each day is a short reading, with a devotion that will encourage you to step away for 30 days and take an inventory of the effect social media is having on you. You will learn better ways to use technology and learn from God’s Word, along with prayer, reflection, and practical application. This book will encourage you to unfollow the world and follow the ways of God. You will also learn about how social media usage is affecting our culture. Since I have teenagers, this is a concern of mine, and I know many others.
Here are a few highlights from the book:
The onset of social media has coincided with steep increases in anxiety, depression, self-harm, and suicide among young users, especially girls.
If you use your phone for two to three hours a day, you will end up spending roughly six to eight years of your life on your phone. If you use your phone for four or more hours a day, you will end up spending roughly eleven or more years of your life on your phone.
Our fingers were not made to swipe a pixelated screen and watch other people’s lives unfold.
We weren’t made to watch strangers, acquaintances, celebrities, influencers, and even our friends’ lives unfold in perfectly curated filtered photos and 15-second video clips.
We need more of God and less of the world.
We have been made to do hard and holy things and live lives of greatness.
We are to live with eyes wide open. We are urges to live with wisdom and make the most of every borrowed breath we are given. (Ephesians 5:15-16)
Guard your heart and mind and protect your innermost being. We can look at God or the world, light or darkness, good or evil.
Our culture’s collective ambition is to live loudly to generate as much attention and accumulate as much wealth and fame as possible.
We must be gatekeepers of our minds and decide which thoughts stay and which go. (Philippians 4:8)
From the author, Social Media Reset will help you:
Take inventory of social media’s effect on your spiritual, mental, and emotional health
Let go of stress and anxiety and cultivate a life of peace and contentment
Discover life-changing rhythms to enhance your well-being
Draw closer to God and show up for your life with a new level of excitement, joy, and intentionality
While this book wasn’t geared toward my age, I would definitely recommend it to teenage girls and young adult women. So, if you are looking for a change and/or to step away from social media, then pick up this book!
August 3, 2025
Social Media Reset is an engaging 30-day devotional written for a female audience. Each day is a good length essay, several pages not just a blurb or few paragraphs. Even so I kept reading beyond one day at a time because I wanted to see what would be addressed next. I highlighted a lot and when I looked back it was mostly the verses from the Bible that spoke to me. Each day gives a slightly different perspective as it relates in some way to social media.
Most lessons I agreed with Biblically but there were some parts that felt a little off track. One example, referring to “our dignity as women has been attacked since the beginning of time” feeds into the current day frustration but the statement doesn’t address or acknowledge the fact that the beginning of time was creation and soon after Eve played a big part in bringing sin into the world that really spoiled things and led to the shame and tension that she felt and has followed women (and men) in the time since. In another place the author says when we are living as who God says we are then we will be prepared to “set others free” as well – but that oversteps our role in the kind of life change that Jesus can make.
The premise of the book is that you are taking a 30-day break from social media and will read through these to help along the way but I confess it didn’t help me make the actually commitment. I read more with a “let’s see what she has to say” mindset and can’t say that I changed my habits. I would be more likely to do the reset AFTER finishing the book as the reasoning builds over time.
I’ll end with something I highlighted that resonated: “When we deny ourselves the opportunity to have everything we want as soon as we want it, we force ourselves to enjoy what we already have.”
Thank you to the Tyndale Refresh and NetGalley for an early copy to read and review. This book came out in July 2025 so is available now.
Most lessons I agreed with Biblically but there were some parts that felt a little off track. One example, referring to “our dignity as women has been attacked since the beginning of time” feeds into the current day frustration but the statement doesn’t address or acknowledge the fact that the beginning of time was creation and soon after Eve played a big part in bringing sin into the world that really spoiled things and led to the shame and tension that she felt and has followed women (and men) in the time since. In another place the author says when we are living as who God says we are then we will be prepared to “set others free” as well – but that oversteps our role in the kind of life change that Jesus can make.
The premise of the book is that you are taking a 30-day break from social media and will read through these to help along the way but I confess it didn’t help me make the actually commitment. I read more with a “let’s see what she has to say” mindset and can’t say that I changed my habits. I would be more likely to do the reset AFTER finishing the book as the reasoning builds over time.
I’ll end with something I highlighted that resonated: “When we deny ourselves the opportunity to have everything we want as soon as we want it, we force ourselves to enjoy what we already have.”
Thank you to the Tyndale Refresh and NetGalley for an early copy to read and review. This book came out in July 2025 so is available now.
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