Thank you for joining us for episode 415 of Live Happy Now.

Our digital lifestyles often don't seem to support our well-being,

but this week's guest is going to tell us how we can change it.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I am sitting down with Amy Blanksson,

CEO and co-founder of the Digital Wellness

Institute. Amy has made it her mission to cultivate happiness and well-being in a digital

era. And on May 5th, Digital Wellness Day, she is unveiling the Digital Wellness University

and Digitally Well School to help create healthier digital cultures at school, work, and home.

This week, she's here to share some of our strategies to improve our digital wellness.

Amy, thank you for coming back on Live Happy Now.

So happy to be here. Thanks for having me, Paula.

It has been way too long since we talked, and I'm very, very happy to be able to sit down with you again. Yes, this is always one of my favorite shows to get to join on. So thank you. Well, you have something fantastic going on with Digital Wellness Day and I think we'll start with the baseline. Tell us what digital wellness means. So digital wellness is a bit of a foreign term for a lot of people.

We know digital. We know wellness, but you put them together and suddenly it's confusing.

Fortunately, I think that the world has been more tuned in to really addressing some of the needs

of mental health, physical health, burnout that we're seeing all across the

globe. And as part of that, digital wellness is becoming a more frequently talked about topic.

So digital wellness is really looking at how technology is impacting our lives for the better

and for the worse and trying to optimize our behaviors to really find a better

sense of balance for greater happiness.

So we know that if we are overusing our tech, it makes us less happy.

And if we're not using tech, we feel isolated sometimes from really important parts of the

world.

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