Visual Detox by Marine Tanguy explores the impact of visual overload on our mental health and well-being. The book delves into how our constant exposure to visual stimuli affects our thoughts, emotions, and behaviours. Tanguy discusses the importance of curating our visual consumption to reduce stress, improve focus, and enhance our overall quality of life. The book provides practical strategies and exercises to help readers declutter their visual environment and create a more mindful and intentional relationship with what they see. While I found the book slow reading, it also made me think and I know I'll be making changes. I've read many books that covers aspects of wellbeing, this is the only one that focuses on visual stimuli and steps to improve your environment.

I was so excited to read this book as I’ve read similar on the same sort of topic/idea but this felt a bit of a slog for me to get through. I love books that share a lot of information in a easy and digestible way especially on topics like this but this one didn’t make it feel easy for me to take in all this information, it felt sort of bland and not as engaging as I’d hoped it would be sadly. Still interesting if you would like to learn more about the subject matter but it definitely wasn’t a quick read for me!

Since being away at a bookish retreat in January and having a digital detox; I have definitely been thinking more about my use of technology and the information I consume on a day to day basis. I came away from the retreat with great intentions about having regular detoxes and being more mindful about my consumption but have very quickly fallen into bad habits.

Recently I’ve been feeling a bit overwhelmed and just a little bit rubbish and The Visual Detox is a book which came along at the right time for me.

The book’s starting premise is that we often talk about information or technology overload in our society but visual information is not something we give much thought to; we have become so used to being surrounded by imagery all the time, that we have become desensitised to it and don’t give it much thought. But in reality many images we are exposed to are carefully thought out and intended to make us think a certain way, desire a certain object or aspire to achieve a certain something whether that is a material object, a type of lifestyle or maybe even our own thoughts and belief systems.

This book has brought to light how subtle but impactful visual imagery can be, and how we can reduce the impact by being more aware and mindful of what we are surrounded by.

I found the writing style of the book accessible and easy to follow; the author uses real life examples which really helped me to understand the content better and think about how it applied to day to day life. There is theory behind it but it’s not dense which made it a far easier read.

The tools and tips throughout the book were helpful; not too overwhelming and just small practical steps which can help us to curate the visual information we expose ourselves to. Since reading the book, I have certainly found I am noticing things more and trying to be more mindful about some of the more subtle messaging I might be being exposed to.

This is a well written, informative and thought provoking book. I enjoyed it

A great book on how much visual content we consume in a day, and what it does to us, and how to move forward knowing all this.

Perfect book for advice on how to navigate and balance the digital world that consumes us.
I couldn’t think of a more prevalent book to share with readers.