EP- 94 How to Heal from Your Phone and Tech Addiction

Wabi Sabi - The Perfectly Imperfect Podcast with Candice Kumai

Candice Kumai

Health & Fitness, Education, Health, Wabisabi, How To, Nutrition, Mental Health, Wellness

4.9 • 793 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Useful tips on how to reduce your phone usage and get off apps all - freakin- day- long. Ten years of a serious phone and tech addiction is enough - its time to lay off the phone: Let's take better responsibility of our own mental health and for our youth, too - and improve your outlook on life and share this useful info with others. We can better disconnect from tech and phones - we have to take small *actionable* steps + share these with BFF's *Actionable tips* Journaling - journal the things you are grateful for, list off the people you love in your life - even if its just scribbling out all the thoughts you have Cooking from books - put the phone away when you are cooking - try "Clean Green Eats" Nature - walking, hiking, solved by walking - make decisions after a walk and after a good night's sleep Gardening with no phone A Sabbatical - a break from work, the phone and email - try it! Workout without phone - dont take it into class - for fuck's sake Reading books - turn the phone off Talking to a friend - brunch no phones Become a part of a runners club or a rec sports team no phone Dinner no phones - pay attention to who you are dining with - connect with them in the present Pray and meditate no phones Have more sex and playtime Travel more and book more trips + learn about your culture off the phone Let's do a better job of the information and stories we share: education, reading, books, writing/sharing better public service journalism- not all media and/or podcasts are focused on clickbait and thirst traps + addictions to attention - we are over it! -- sometimes it's important to turn the shit off and tune back in to reality off the batt. Try a weekend from FRI- MON am with no phone, turn it off, put it away. - trust me you will love it. - Please review this podcast with 5 stars on Apple and Spotify + thank you for listening xx Candice

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0:00.0	Hi guys, welcome to the Wabi-Sabi podcast episode number 94.
0:09.3	We are almost to 100.
0:11.4	Can't believe it, but can believe it.
0:14.1	How are you guys doing this week?
0:16.8	I genuinely am interested.
0:19.5	Today's episode is going to be about how to get off of your cell phone addiction,
0:25.8	because I know how many of you are increasingly growing, anxious, depressed, unhappy,
0:31.5	comparing your lives to others, and you simply cannot get off of your battery.
0:37.6	This isn't a dig at anybody, but I fall into the same category of highly addictive
0:44.2	personality meets cell phone, meets, has no idea how to get off of the battery until I hit
0:51.3	rock bottom. And now I have coached myself off of my cell phone.
0:56.7	We do a lot of studies on this end of journalism before I write any story.
1:01.6	I try to talk about what really matters.
1:04.4	My team and I have done extensive research while we're writing a new show right now.
1:08.7	And what we found as we collected a large amount of research was that mental health issues are on the rise.
1:18.7	And we have to do something about it.
1:21.3	We can't just talk about suicide rates and pandemic causing more mental health crises.
1:27.6	We can't just talk about money, problems, anxiety, the troubles of our world, a COVID-19 study
1:35.7	with, you know, the astronomical amount of mental health issues.
1:41.4	We can't just talk about what social media is doing to our teens and our children
1:48.4	and their brains and their developing brains and bodies. I mean, talk about having a hunchback
1:54.7	and looking at the structure of our backbones and necks changing because people are hunched over all day on
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