It was during the second Sydney lockdown, in 2021, that Cass decided to unplug.
“I was finding myself really anxious about the state of the world. And when I looked at the news, I was like, there’s actually nothing I can do as an individual to change anything that’s going on,” she tells Guardian Australia. “I just thought, I need to step away from the information overload of all the negativity. It’s too much.”
