Hey friends, welcome to the Rhythms for Life podcast, where each week we talk about four rhythms that help you reduce stress and anxiety and take charge of your emotional health.

Rest, restore, connect, create.

This is Rebecca.

This is Rebecca.

And I'm Gabe, and today we're talking about technology. We're talking about the need for each of us to detox to step back a little bit from the way in which technology seems to be overwhelming so many of us and as we talk

about these rhythms Rebecca I think there's probably not been one that's been more important

to our life than recognizing how much technologies playing a role sometimes in creating a little

bit of that mental chaos.

This falls within the rest rhythm.

That's where we're focusing this week because rest requires us to silence the noise and that's part of what

tech detox does and I talk about this in the beginning of the book about how I

had to take three months off Instagram finally after seven years and what I

learned from that and how I re-entered

differently. And if you stay tuned, we're including at the end of this podcast

Rebecca's audiobook portion on the chapter called Tech Detox, you can really

go in depth with how Rebecca worked this out in our own life and the impact that it made.

I know for myself the thing I've been somewhat obsessed with lately is understanding the data around technology, how distracted we are as a population.

Did you know Rebecca we touch our phones 2,617 times a day on average?

You know, let me think about it when you try to if you're not using

facial recognition which I'm not you you tap that thing six times with your passcode but you know we're

constantly touching our phones you know over the course of the year, 650 hours of time is

dedicated to sending email, reading email.

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