How Screens Shape Our Nervous System

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

How well do you manage your relationship with the screen? How would your spouse describe how well you manage your relationship with the screen? What about your kids?

As we continue season 5 on relational intelligence, we discuss screen time and its effects on our nervous system. We share some sobering statistics about screens and hope by the end you honestly evaluate the answer to the question, “What role does the screen play in the quality of my life?”

Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
3:20 How do you relate with your screen?
8:57 Screens and the nervous system
12:12 Dopamine, screens, and temper tantrums
19:00 Multitasking, nervous system dysregulation, and attunement
27:20 Inattention in children’s television shows
32:29 Becoming relationally intelligent with screens

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0:00.0	As you think about the nervous system, and we've talked about this before, when you are living in
0:06.4	Ventral, you can be calm, curious, connect, you can be content, but curiosity goes out the door as soon as you look at that screen.
0:13.8	Yes.
0:14.3	Unless you're curious about the news and the world and all of a sudden, then you're doing things that are mindless. You're not doing things that are creative.
0:20.2	But what ends up happening is we're so distracted. The distraction is actually helping calm our nervous
0:27.5	system in an unhealthy way. And so it's leading to a place of ultimate numbing out.
0:34.3	Well, and that's, okay, so that's a great, like such a, such a good point.
0:45.2	Because the nervous system wants to be regulated. It will regulate somehow. And it, if that is,
0:52.6	if you find yourself numb and disconnected, that is, it is doing its best. It is, that's actually, it's doing its job.
0:55.0	But then we wonder why we aren't living life to the full and we don't have joy and we don't
1:00.0	have peace.
1:01.0	I won't lose hope in the night when the fire is going down.
1:08.0	I'll just let go and I'll try help me walk this road and find my way back home.
1:33.3	Welcome back to the Famous Sinom Podcast.
1:35.3	It is a delight to be with you.
1:37.3	I love the word delight.
1:38.8	It is a delight to be with you today.
1:41.1	As we are in a series,
1:42.9	a season on relational intelligence, and we are
1:47.2	taking today a little bit about screen time portals and how it's hindering relationships.
1:56.0	Before we jump into that conversation, I just want to remind you that we have marriage coaching coming up.
2:02.6	We would love for you to check out that in the show notes. If you're interested in marriage
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