37. Self image and social media use
Do You F*cking Mind?
Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa - Neuroscientist and Mindset Coach
4.9 • 914 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
This podcast goes into why we are so compelled to use social media apps, why it controls us, how it affects the brain and what to do about it. It also covers all the issues that arise with self and body image and how you can chane how you feel about it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to episode 37. So this episode today is going to be all about |
| 0:05.9 | social media and how it impacts our lives. But primarily I'm going to be talking about |
| 0:10.9 | kind of how it impacts our self-image, body image, self-esteem and all of that. It's really |
| 0:17.1 | normal that a lot of people will compare themselves to what they see on social media. |
| 0:23.3 | And yeah, so basically I'm going to be talking about that. |
| 0:24.8 | I'm going to be breaking the episode down. |
| 0:28.0 | First, I'm going to be talking about what actually happens in the brain. |
| 0:35.7 | When you are using social media quite a bit, I'm going to show you the differentiation between what is a behavioral addiction and what is not. |
| 0:39.9 | And then I'm going to be talking about, because I did ask on my Instagram for you guys to throw out me a whole bunch of scenarios where you feel that you have no control over |
| 0:45.5 | social media or you were basically letting me know how it impacts your life negatively. |
| 0:49.6 | And I'm going to address these things and give you my advice for that. |
| 0:53.0 | Because also what we need to keep in |
| 0:54.7 | mind is that social media is at the end of the day just a tool. So it could be something that |
| 1:00.8 | is an asset for you or it can be something that ends up being an enemy for you. And it actually |
| 1:06.1 | is a choice. I know it might not feel like it, but by the end of this episode, I hope that you |
| 1:10.3 | feel that you're way more in control with not only how you use it, but with how often you use it, |
| 1:15.8 | you're going to feel that you're using it and it's not using you. And it's going to actually |
| 1:19.5 | be something that you can enjoy instead of being something that just gives you severe anxiety |
| 1:24.2 | and you feel that you are a slave to. So that's the aim of this podcast because |
| 1:27.7 | I genuinely feel that when you can have something in moderation and when you can have a healthy |
| 1:31.8 | mindset towards it, it can actually become an asset for you. There's a lot of people that use, |
| 1:36.8 | you know, social media for their business. There's a lot of people that use it to connect with |
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