You're listening to the Decluttered Mom podcast. A podcast built specifically for busy moms by a busy mom. I'm your host, Diana Renee. And in 2017, I had my second daughter and it felt like I was literally drowning in my home. Okay, not literally,

but I felt like I couldn't breathe with all of the stuff surrounding me. Over the next 10 months,

I got rid of approximately 70% of our household belongings and I have never looked back.

I kind of feel like I hacked the mom system, and I'm here to share all the tips,

tricks, and encouragement.

Let's listen to today's show.

This episode is going to be even shorter than most of my short episodes, but it's because I just want to tell you about a specific app that I have been using lately that has drastically

reduced my compulsion to pull up social media when I'm on my phone. I don't know if it's

just me. I am 100% sure, actually, it's not just

me, but how many times are you maybe scrolling on Instagram and then you finally are done?

You kind of get bored and so you tap out of it and you open TikTok and then you're on that

for a few minutes and you scroll out and then you tap out because you're kind of bored

and then you open Facebook and then you close that and then you open Reddit and like you know what I mean

like there's this like constant it's almost like an instinctual need to just keep consuming information

looking for that next dopamine hit whatever it may be be, right? So I have tried so many

things. And there are a lot of things. And I have a prior episode about this that I do to reduce

my screen time when I feel like it's kind of like grabbing onto me. And I know I've said this before,

but because I run my business mostly from my phone, I think that I get like even more hooked into this because I will get on Instagram to post a reel or to reply to DMs for my business.

And then I am in that mode already of like of needing those like tiny hits of dopamine and so I just keep going even if I'm

done working right so there are lots of things that I have done that have helped me reduce that

need or reduce the time spent on my phone but I still struggle with that pull of just automatically opening apps when I do grab my phone. So all of the

tips that I provided before will help you not pick up your phone in the first place. But if you are

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