132: The Hidden Costs of Social Media: A Conversation with Jenny Wise Black

Motherhood Meets Medicine

Lynzy Coughlin

Medicine, Kids & Family, Health & Fitness

5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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If you’ve been around for any amount of time, you’ll know that I’ve had a love-hate relationship with social media for a long time. For all intents and purposes, social media has brought me to where I am today, but at what cost? There are hidden costs when you’re using social media and slowly but surely they’re all coming to light. Here to share more about the hidden costs of social media is Jenny Wise Black. Jenny is a licensed marriage and family therapist, the author of Our Digital Soul and the host of Lose The Phone podcast. She specializes in the impacts media has on our mental health and has been featured as a Tedx Speaker on this very topic. In today’s episode, we will be chatting about trauma in media and how that applies to both the creators of media and consumers of media. Jenny ditched her smartphone a while back and we talked about why and how that has impacted the raising of her children and her life overall. In this episode, we discuss: Why social media is so pervasive What media trauma is and who it impacts Ways to start removing social media from your life How social media and smartphones have impacted our most important relationships Why it's not too late for you to change your relationship with social media and your phone Resources: Lose the Phone: http://Losethephone.com The Slow Drip of Media Trauma - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mflf3bsrDI Our Digital Soul - https://www.amazon.com/Our-Digital-Soul-Collective-Recovery/dp/B0BK4WYLGB/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3H2BLYY6VNPG1&keywords=our+digital+soul&qid=1691602921&sprefix=our+digital+soul%2Caps%2C332&sr=8-1 Podcast: Lose the Phone - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suUNH9sqHzs Promo Code for Gabb Phone: http://gabb.com/promo/JENNYBLACK Discount Codes from Our Sponsors: CoPilot: go.mycopilot.com/lynzy - 14-Day Free Trial with your own personal trainer Questions: Why is social media so pervasive? What is media trauma and who does it impact? How can we remove social media from our lives? How are social media and smartphones impacting our relationships with our kids? Is it too late to make changes? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:08.5	Hello, everyone. Today, I'll be chatting with Jenny Black. Jenny is a licensed marriage
1:13.6	and family therapist, the author of Our Digital Soul and the host of Lose the Phone Podcast.
1:19.7	She specializes in the impact media has on our mental health. In today's episode,
1:25.2	Jenny and I discussed trauma in media and how that applies to both creators of media
1:31.1	and the consumers of media. Jenny ditched her smartphone a while back and we talked about why
1:36.4	and how that has profoundly impacted the raising of her children and her life.
1:40.8	This topic is so near and dear to my heart and I hope to continue this conversation since we
1:45.0	didn't get to everything we wanted to in this one episode. Who knows? Maybe you'll see a movement
1:50.2	come from this. Let's dive in. Just a little disclaimer before we start this episode,
1:58.3	this podcast does not provide medical advice. The information on this podcast is for informational
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