Addiction is the habits of the mind that technology allows us to practice.

My name is Andrea and this is adult child.

What's you you slow now

I'm just let it all go

Welcome back to an adult child

Where we took a deep dive into the impact of growing up

In a dysfunctional family

Ahoy my dear shit shows

For any new listeners My name is Andrea I am a total incomplete shit show.

I'm a adult child of dysfunctional family. And you are getting a solo episode with me today, folks.

So buckle the hell up. So today, folks, we are diving deep into a topic that is long overdue, a topic that I have a lot of

firsthand experience with, and frankly, a topic that we all have a lot of firsthand experience

with, and that is compulsive phone behavior. So we are going to look at eight different

manifestations of phone compulsions, what they look like, how they show up in your daily life.

And we are also going to view them through the lens of childhood relational trauma.

So viewing them as coping strategies, as defense mechanisms, as ways of managing our nervous system state, as ways that we cope, we regulate,

we survive. Now, if you are a longtime listener, you have heard me share about my phone issues

for years, like probably since the beginning, right? I think I shared very early on in the

podcast that I was a candy crush addict. I feel like

it was said in jest in the beginning before I really realized how serious of an issue this was

for me. So I want to just talk a little bit about my history with my compulsive phone use, which primarily

manifest through gaming.

...