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Create a Healthy Relationship with Social Media With Giselle Ugarte

Live Happy Now

Live Happy LLC

Health & Fitness:mental Health, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.7522 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

As we wrap up Mental Health Awareness month, it’s a great time to talk about how social media affects mental health — and how you can use it to support a happier, more meaningful life. Host Paula Felps is joined by coach, speaker and influencer Giselle Ugarte, who helps people learn how to build their confidence, reframe their relationship with social media, and show up more authentically at work and in their relationships. In this episode, you’ll learn: How to use social media for positive interactions and deepening your relationships. Signs that social media may be having a negative effect on you and what to do about it. How to curate your social media feed so it will have a positive impact on your self-esteem and self-confidence.

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0:00.0

Thank you for joining us for episode 470 of Live Happy Now.

0:07.8

As we wrap up Mental Health Awareness Month, it's a great time to talk about something that many experts believe is contributing to the problem.

0:16.9

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm joined by coach, speaker, and influencer,

0:21.4

Giselle Ugardi, who helps people learn how to build their confidence, reframe their relationship

0:26.5

with social media, and show up more authentically at work and in their personal lives.

0:32.6

Giselle has seen firsthand how learning to use social media more mindfully can help deepen relationships and improve

0:38.9

self-confidence. And she's here to tell us how we can make the most of those social media moments.

0:44.4

Let's have a listen. Giselle, welcome to Live Happy Now. Hello, I'm so happy to be here.

0:50.9

Oh, my gosh, I'm so excited to talk to you. We want to talk about mental health and social

0:55.5

media and that is a huge topic. We could talk all month about it. No kidding. Oh my gosh. I'm glad to be

1:01.7

here to talk about it. Yeah. So to start the conversation, I really wanted to talk about how

1:06.7

oftentimes when we have this discussion about social media and mental health, we're talking about

1:11.9

younger users. It's not just kids that it's affecting. It's affecting older adults as well, right?

1:17.8

It's affecting all of us, honestly, because even if it isn't social media, you know,

1:22.1

social media is a reflection of the way that we use technology and even the way that we have

1:26.2

notifications running so much of

1:28.1

our lives. And where we worry so much about today's kids, the reality is that the kids are also

1:34.2

reflecting the habits and also the insecurities of adults. And where we're hearing a lot of commentary

1:40.1

right now about how this is the most anxious generation, I would also then challenge to take a look

1:45.5

at some of our older generations as well in the ways in which we might be addicted to work or

1:50.3

perhaps validation or people pleasing. I really just think that social media is a mirror or

1:56.8

perhaps amplification of some of what actually and already has been happening for decades

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