How to Break Up With Your Phone and Have More Fun

The Wellness Scoop

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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We’re joined by Catherine Price, a science journalist and speaker, to talk about our relationship with our devices, how to achieve more screen-life balance, and the value of having more true fun. We discuss: How our attachment to our phones impacts our stress levels How social media manipulates our brain’s dopamine system The consequence of the manipulation of our dopamine system Practical steps for establishing a healthy relationship with our phone The 3 components of true fun Why true fun is essential to our overall wellbeing The impact of loneliness on our mental and physical health How fun supports resilience The link between fun and decision making & productivity Catherine Price: @_catherineprice https://howtohavefun.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:31.7	Hi, I'm Ella Mills, the founder of Delicacy Ella and this is our podcast, Delicious Ways to Feel Better.
1:38.5	Each episode explores various aspects of our mental and physical health to help you make small
1:43.7	simple changes to feel better every day. Today, we're going to be looking at
1:48.4	breaking out with technology, getting away from our phones and why we need to have that bit
1:52.5	more fun in our lives. There was one researcher I quote in my book who actually referred to loneliness
1:57.5	as, quote, a fertilizer for other diseases, which is crazy to think about. Other researchers
2:03.0	compare the health effects of loneliness and isolation to those of smoking 15 cigarettes a day.
2:08.8	So, we eat all the broccoli you want. It's going to be really hard to counter-hack that. So,
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