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The Motherkind Podcast

MOMENT | Healthy phone habits - how to start now, Dr. Faye Begeti

The Motherkind Podcast

The Motherkind Podcast

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.8837 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Motherkind Moment is your place for calm and connection and a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week, neurologist and author of 'The Phone Fix', Dr. Faye Begeti gives us advice on how to tackle phone addiction. We hear how we can avoid feeling trapped by our phone, what we can do to be more present with our families, and why we shouldn't feel pressured to reply to messages straight away. Click Here to order your copy of 'Motherkind: A New way to thrive in a world of endless expectations’. This show is proudly sponsored by Stokke Download the Free Prints app for iPhone and Android from the App store or Google Play or visit freeprints.co.uk. Get 40% off a Calm premium subscription at calm.com/motherkind Continue the Conversation: Join our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskey Join our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:16.3

I try and do half an hour a day just completely with my girls.

1:20.1

Like I just try and be as present as I absolutely can be.

1:22.4

And I have to put my phone in another room because I found that when I was trying to do that

1:25.5

and my phone was pinging and I know I was waiting for an important

1:29.5

email, I would say to the girls, I'm just going to get a glass of water, but it was an excuse to check

1:34.4

my phone. Like I felt like I don't have any willpower unless the device is in another room.

1:41.8

Why is that? Like, is that quite normal? What is it about that pull to that

1:46.1

device when we have the intention of being present with something else? Yeah. So, I mean,

1:51.8

our brain is an engine. And whatever pattern you set in your engine is the pattern that

1:57.8

becomes more efficient and easier to repeat. So if we've set ourselves

2:02.4

a certain pattern of phone use, then it is rather tricky to navigate against that. But one of

2:09.6

the things that I want to mention to you, Zoe, is from what you've said, phone use, rather

2:16.3

than being the cause being the phone itself, it's a

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