Catherine

Yoga, marketing, experiences from life in London.

[Catherine @cattbd]

I’ll start at the beginning:

I grew up in a quintessential New England town in CT. My grandfather owned a printing company. As soon as I was exposed to computers I was hooked.

I loved the paper, machinery, laser printers, wedding invitations, business cards…

[Catherine @cattbd]

Time to break out:

Timeline cleanse.
Set boundaries.
Find positive accounts to follow.

[Catherine @cattbd]

What you pay attention to grows:

There's more than just feeling bad in comparison to silly social posts - you can literally be creating energetic adhesions and trap yourself in a toxic pattern. Your mind will perpetuate a cycle, belief or perception whether it is true or not.

[Catherine @cattbd]

Any mindful practice can bring you back and transform your awareness into your breath, body and calm mind.

Stagnant energy can make you feel stuck in the day to day minutiae - but you can overcome this for yourself on your own, with mindfulness tools.

[Catherine @cattbd]

Focusing on gratitude and being present can truly renew your sense of energy and purpose~

[Catherine @cattbd]

Set an intention to be truthful, generous, kind to yourself first. Fill your own bucket. 'You can't pour from an empty cup' is a real truth.

[Catherine @cattbd]

Breath, movement, and meditation are powerful tools that can help you process your sensations, emotions, and feelings.

This truth is radical for mamas and those seeking sobriety.

[Catherine @cattbd]

Great list

[Lorwen Harris Nagle, PhD @LORWEN108]

A Stanford neuroscientist warns high cortisol wrecks memory, enlarges your fear center, and make your brain feel broken.

If I wanted to fix it naturally, I'd do these 8 things every day:

1. Walk barefoot on grass for 5–7 minutes.

[Catherine @cattbd]

Morning commute #London

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My London

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Love it

[Catherine @cattbd]

Self published mom life: Cat Sprague on Substack https://t.co/UHEDIf0spH

[Catherine @cattbd]

All we need is less

https://t.co/D52OhjNywM

[Catherine @cattbd]

Things you need to know: AI agents don’t see your website like humans do, and the accessibility tree is quickly becoming the interface that determines whether they can use it. https://t.co/6PJvdF08aC via @slobodanmanic, @sejournal

[Catherine @cattbd]

Hard but evidence based decision. From 5 (I know) big screen tvs in my US house to 0 in my UK home.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

New UK screen time rules just dropped — and they’re stricter than most parents expected.

From 27 March 2026, England says: zero solo screens for under-2s (except quick video calls with family), and max one hour a day for 2–5 year olds — no screens at meals or the hour before bed. Co-view everything, stick to slow-paced content, and ditch fast social-media clips and AI toys completely.

The science is sobering: toddlers’ brains process info up to 10 times slower than adults. Fast-paced screens push them into fight-or-flight mode — racing heart, surging energy — while they’re sitting still. Researchers at the University of East London say this mismatch can wire kids for more tantrums and emotional struggles later. Using screens to calm meltdowns? It often backfires long-term.

As a parent, it’s brutal — we all know that explosion the second you take the tablet away.

But this feels like evidence finally catching up with what our gut has been telling us.

How are you handling screens with little ones — strict limits, co-viewing, or mostly winging it?

[Catherine @cattbd]

Reading

[CONSEQUENCE @consequence]

"Blaming Geese for hiring a TikTok marketing firm is like blaming a cereal brand for paying for shelf space at eye level. Every supermarket charges for placement, and it means the brand with less money ends up on the bottom shelf. That's a legitimate problem, but the answer is to fix how shelves work, not to accuse Cheerios of fraud."

https://t.co/n4r97a1wU2

[Catherine @cattbd]

The Unwritten Rules of Organic Social Growth
https://t.co/R1gz4iSEYj

[Catherine @cattbd]

Curious what my marketing friends think of chaotic good

[WIRED @WIRED]

The Brooklyn band Geese was labeled an “industry plant” by those who questioned its sudden ubiquity. Maybe it was. https://t.co/H6QYLmBQUg

[Catherine @cattbd]

@SahilBloom Malasana. Hip openers. Scorpion rolls. It’s a lovely yoga practice. Definitely encourage everything here. Don’t even need an app, plenty of great teachers online!

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

We are at a point in history—not nearing it, but here—where everyone is going to have to decide if they are content to numb themselves with an endless stream of fentanyl-like digital slop or if they are going to fight for their humanity and touch grass and challenge themselves and create and contribute and love.

Decades of research shows people are most fulfilled when they care deeply about meaningful projects. When they have mastery and mattering. When they do good work and love good people. Nobody feels or performs their best when they are mindlessly scrolling.

The antidote to algorithmic mass distraction is deep focus and enduring effort on meaningful pursuits.

Making music. Writing. Running. Gardening. Coaching. Dancing. Building tables.

When you work with deep focus on an activity or craft—when you throw yourself into something you care about and give it your all—you experience of the opposite of existential longing. You experience presence, depth, and aliveness.

Perhaps the greatest risk of the modern world is that we go wherever the current takes us, like automatons floating along a pixelated conveyor belt to nowhere. The only thing that separates us from this dystopia is ourselves. Our agency—our attention, our capacity to think, create, and love—must be fought for.

[Catherine @cattbd]

Don't listen to bad advice:

most of the hacks presented in relation to Instagram reach are false
https://t.co/dDMjykTznE