You're listening to the Ducluttered 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.

Today we're going to talk about something that I know I have struggled with for years and years and years and years and I still to this day

struggle with but I have found different ways to balance. I think everyone in the world

struggles with this to some extent, some more than others, but what we're going to talk about

is basically our digital

usage, especially social media, but just digital usage overall and primarily our phones.

Because I know that prior to my phone being such a big part of my life, my laptop was kind of like

the thing that I always

would pick up after work and I would like scroll social media on my laptop. And then as

smartphones got smarter and smarter and basically turned into these like little computers,

I found that it was my phone that I was kind of turning to more and I was picking

that up more and I was focusing on that more. And then as I became a mom, there was this

really interesting thing that happened. I was on my phone more than ever before. But it was also

like the way that I felt connected to people because I was a stay-at-home

mom and I felt really isolated in my home all day versus like before when I was working in an office

and I didn't have a tiny human to take care of all day long. And I was sleeping at night and I was talking to other people

my age, not just to a tiny human who just would stare at me. Right. So there was like all these

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