Do you need a digital detox? ā with Elaine Kasket
The Liz Earle Wellbeing Show
Liz Earle
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šļø 15 November 2024
ā±ļø 48 minutes
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Summary
How much time do you spend on your phone or a computer each day? With one in five people in the UK hitting burnout, leading cyber psychologist Elaine Kasket joins Liz to reveal what social media and technology are really doing to our health.
Elaine talks Liz through how technology may be impacting our mental health and relationships, and how we can maximise our social connections, plus shares advice on how we can reboot our relationship with the digital world.
The episode also covers some of the positives of modern technology, how to avoid comparison stealing your joy on social media, setting healthy boundaries with tech in the workplace, and our digital footprint after death.
Links mentioned in the episode:
- Purchase Reset: Rethinking Your Digital World for a Happier Life, by Elaine Kasket
- Purchase A Better Second Half by Liz Earle
- Email us your questions at [email protected]
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| 0:00.0 | When we go on social media, the more that we're using it for community building in a way that we are participating in, we are making connections. |
| 0:09.0 | In those instances, social media are associated with a lot of really good well-being outcomes. |
| 0:15.0 | If we are going on social media and we are passively scrolling, those are the kinds of social media behaviors that are more |
| 0:22.2 | associated with more loneliness, more anxiety, more depression. Elaine Caskett is a cyber psychologist |
| 0:32.1 | who's seen how technology can seriously impact our well-being for better and for worse. I'm Liz Earle. Welcome to |
| 0:41.6 | the Lizal Well-Being Show, the podcast, helping us all have a better second half. And as you well |
| 0:48.0 | know, my mission is to find ways for all of us to really thrive in later life by investing in our |
| 0:53.9 | health and our well-being today. Many more of us are really thrive in later life by investing in our health and our well-being today. |
| 0:55.7 | Many more of us are online and turning to tech to help us. |
| 1:00.0 | But is it a help or a hindrance? |
| 1:02.1 | Well, last week, we talked about how important our relationship with nature is. |
| 1:06.5 | You know, plants have myriad health benefits. |
| 1:08.7 | They affect everything from our gut microbiome to susceptibility to |
| 1:13.5 | depression. And as promised then, I want to take that conversation on one step further this week |
| 1:20.6 | in a very different sphere because I wonder that one of the reasons that you're not spending perhaps more time |
| 1:26.9 | outside is because |
| 1:28.4 | you're spending too much time on a screen. I know for myself that my life is dominated by screens |
| 1:35.2 | and I kind of justify that to myself by saying, yeah, but I need to be doing this because I'm an |
| 1:40.6 | online digital creator. I run a website. My social media is very big. I need to feed the hungry |
| 1:46.6 | beast that is Instagram and Facebook and YouTube and all of that all the time. But is that |
| 1:52.5 | actually beneficial? And am I just perhaps making excuses for myself here? Well, Elaine is a psychologist, |
| 2:00.1 | a transformational coach and a real expert on digital age |
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