Between Digital Overstimulation and Real Connection

We scroll, swipe, click – and often lose ourselves in the process.
We are more connected than ever – and at the same time lonelier than ever before.
We scroll and swipe so much that we barely feel what truly matters to us.
Sometimes this leads to withdrawal and the loss of genuine resonance – with ourselves and with others.

Soul Instead of Scrolling is an initiative that creates small in-between spaces:
Moments of pause. Spaces for real listening. Impulses for new connection.

The project was founded by psychotherapist Katharina Schuldner, born from the desire to enable encounters beyond therapy – where life actually happens: between everyday life and crisis, between withdrawal and resonance.

Why This Is Important

Loneliness is not an individual failure but a societal phenomenon – and a real health risk. The WHO reports over 900,000 deaths annually linked to loneliness.

Currently, for example, an increase of over 15% in counseling sessions at “Rat auf Draht” shows how much young people suffer from violence, fear, and the flood of images.

Many adults experience similar overwhelm – but often don’t know where to put their feelings.

Especially in such moments, spaces are needed where we don’t have to react – but can simply be.

In my practice, I see this daily:
People who no longer feel themselves.
Who have no place where they are allowed to just be.
Who have lost their social network after emotional violence – or quietly become lonely working from home.

I believe:
We need new spaces. Spaces with soul. Spaces in between.

What Is Emerging Here:
Soul Instead of Scrolling is no campaign. No program. No challenge.
It is an attempt to fill life again with depth – quietly, poetically, politically.

Here formats are created that inspire instead of lecture.
That invite instead of demand.
That enable participation without pressure to perform.

If you would like to read, save, or print the texts “Between Clarity and Invisibility” and “The Space In Between” as a PDF, you can download them here:

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I look forward to your feedback, thoughts, or questions on these topics.

You can reach me anytime at:
katharina@narzissmus.at

Thank you very much for your interest and your open ear!

“School of Life” – A Manifesto
by Katharina Schuldner

I believe we need a new understanding of knowledge.
And a new education system that does justice to the depth and complexity of this world.

Maybe it starts with a simple question:
Why do we learn?

Many children unlearn how to be children – because we make them little adults too soon.
Because we teach them how to be before they are allowed to know who they are.
Because we tell them what is important – instead of asking what really matters to them.

I believe:
Knowledge is more than facts.
And intelligence is more than logic.

There is knowledge that cannot be measured in tests.
A deep knowledge of life that arises from connection, from experience, from intuition, from genuine contact.

We need schools where children are not expected to perform, but allowed to unfold.
Where personal responsibility is not forced, but allowed to grow.
Where mistakes are not failures, but steps.
Where attitude and values are lived – not preached.

A child who is seen does not stop asking questions.
A person who is loved does not stop learning.
A system that gives trust unfolds potential.

We can google facts.
An AI can help us.
But humanity we can only live.

I believe:
It is time for a School of Life.
It costs nothing – only courage, responsibility, and love.

And it may begin exactly where someone says:

“I trust you to be yourself.”

I am not always everywhere –
but I try to be where it feels real for me right now.
I share what feels true to me – sometimes words, sometimes sounds, sometimes just silence.

Not every encounter is fate. And not everything distant is fake.
But sometimes you sense: Something could resonate here.
If that is the case – you are welcome to reach out.
Or simply stay where you are.
That too is connection.

Podcast: In-Between Spaces in Motion
“Everything’s actually fine – and yet I’m sad.”
This is how the first episode of my podcast series about being human in all its ambivalence begins.
Sometimes alone, sometimes in conversation with an artificial intelligence – and sometimes with real people. Quiet, open, unvarnished.

Listen to the first episode: ‘Everything seems right – and yet I feel sad (in German):

In-Between Spaces Hotline
One voice. One thought. A message to listen to — no need to respond.
Listen now

Listening Roulette (in development)
An anonymous conversation format. For everyone who feels like no one truly listens anymore.
Join in and pass it on

Walks & Open Meetings
Movement, encounters, nature — free of expectations.
Offers and opportunities

Texts & Thoughts
Personal, social, psychological — on LinkedIn or here on the website.

These formats are invitations.
You can listen. Join in. Or contribute yourself.

If you feel that you want to share your time, your story, or your commitment – you are warmly welcome.
More about cooperation & participation

Soul Instead of Scrolling is a small movement –
against self-optimization, digital distraction, and lonely nights.
And for what makes us human: connection.