Thank you for joining us for episode 528 of Live Happy Now.

Summer is the perfect time to kick back and change some habits, so this week we're going to look at what a digital detox can do for you.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm talking with Amy Blanksson, co-founder of the Digital Wellness Institute

and author of the bestselling book, The Future of Happiness. She's here to talk about how

summer is the perfect time to break up with your digital device and more importantly, how to do it

and what to expect. Let's have a listen. Amy, welcome back to Live Happy Now. Thank you so much, Paula.

I'm so happy to be here.

Oh, it's been too long since you've been on the show. And you always have such a great insight. So I'm really, really happy to have you back here. Thank you so much. I can't wait. Well, as you know, we are having our Summer of Fun, the Live Happy Summer of Fun. and I thought a great thing to work in would be the idea of

how to do a digital detox because we all feel that guilt of spending too much time on our social

media. So I guess before we get really started, can you talk about what we mean when we say a digital

detox? Oh, that's a great question. I think a digital detox is not a lifelong

commitment to throwing your phone in the trash can. It is really about just stepping away from your

device to get back into balance. And the exercise of stepping away is one of those that really helps

you to become more aware of your habits and to be more intentional

with your actions.

And that means really looking at what do you want to do with that time?

If you were to give up an hour on TikTok, what are you going to do at that time?

And could you do something that really fills your spirit and gives you more fun this summer. And I think

the answer is almost always yes. So we're talking about stepping away from your devices, whether it

is for five minutes, five hours, or five days, doesn't have to be forever, but just some period of

time that feels good to you. Yeah, I'd seen a guy on one of the channels who was talking about doing a dopamine reset challenge.

And his things were as simple as don't take the phone into the bathroom with you.

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