26. Catherine Price: Breaking up with my phone

The Joe Wicks Podcast

BBC

Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The UK’s favourite fitness coach is back with series three of his podcast. This summer, Joe will be speaking to inspirational friends and some of his favourite people to ask them what they do to keep themselves feeling mentally and physically strong in the face of life’s little challenges. It might be relaxing with Lego or cosying up with a good book; every guest will share what works for them in the hope it might inspire you to try something new. Joe has recently been on a journey with phone addiction, and in this episode he chats about this with Catherine Price, science journalist and author of How to Break Up with Your Phone and The Power of Fun. Catherine speaks to Joe about why our phones are harming our mental health, how we can develop a healthier relationship with them and how her life has changed since breaking up with her phone. She shares some simple tips for us all to try, with the ultimate goal of letting more joy into our daily lives. This is sunshine in a podcast. Joe Wicks is here for you, and he won’t stop until you’re fit and happy. Producer: Eliza Lomas Editor: Dimitri Houtart A BBC Audio Bristol production for Radio 4

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts Hello, I'm Joe Wix and welcome back to the
0:15.6	Jo Wix Podcast from BBC Radio 4. This is my podcast where I get to speak to people
0:20.7	I admire about the things they do to stay strong, healthy and happy. And I hope their
0:25.2	stories will inspire you to try something new to improve your mental and physical health.
0:30.5	This episode is about something I've been feeling increasingly passionate about and that's
0:33.9	phone addiction. I've got an amazing expert for you to talk about this important subject.
0:39.1	Catherine Price is the author of How to Break Up With Your Phone and the Power of Fun.
0:44.4	I spoke to Catherine from her home in the US about why our phones are harming our mental
0:48.4	health, how we can develop a healthy relationship with them, and how her own life has changed
0:52.8	since breaking up with her phone. I've been on my own personal journey with phone dependency
0:57.1	and I'm really excited to share this conversation with you. It was such an inspiring chat and
1:01.4	I hope you love this episode too. Let's get to it.
1:07.6	Catherine I am so unbelievably excited to talk to you because I'm going for a bit of
1:12.5	a waking myself right in terms of my phone use, my screen time and I'll put my hands
1:18.1	at it and I'll say this to you right now, I am addicted to my phone and I'm addicted
1:22.2	to distraction and I'm aware of it and I'm trying to make changes and I thought who
1:25.7	better to speak to than the author of a book that literally focuses on this exact thing,
1:31.1	the incredible book How to Break Up With Your Phone. So firstly thank you for your time
1:35.2	and tell me a little bit about the book for those that are listening and why you decided
1:39.2	to write about how to break up with your phone.
1:41.9	Thank you so much for having me as your guest and I'm really excited to talk to you and
1:46.1	the first thing I want to say is that we all are, I would say addicted to our phones.
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