Reclaiming Digital Boundaries PH317

Pursuing Health

Julie Foucher MD, MS

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

As we celebrate nearly 10 years of Pursuing Health, I’m thrilled to share another solo episode! This week I’ll be sharing insights into the shadow sides of social media, and the need for digital boundaries. I’d also love to hear from you! What topics or guests would you like to see featured on the podcast in years 10 and beyond? Are you interested in more solo episodes, or is there something specific you’re curious about? My focus continues to evolve, and I imagine yours does too—so let’s shape the journey together! Please share your thoughts with [email protected], or connect with me on Instagram @JulieFoucher.Related Episodes:Ep 231 - Digital Wellness with Nina Hersher Ep 139 - Stress: The Elephant in the Room with Dr. George Slavich If you like this episode, please subscribe to Pursuing Health on iTunes and give it a rating or share your feedback on social media using the hashtag #PursuingHealth. I look forward to bringing you future episodes with inspiring individuals and ideas about health. Disclaimer: This podcast is for general information only, and does not provide medical advice. I recommend that you seek assistance from your personal physician for any health conditions or concerns.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to pursuing health. I'm Dr. Julie Foucher, family physician and former CrossFit Games athlete.
0:17.9	Here I bring you information and inspiration to help bridge the gap between fitness and
0:22.4	medicine and support your journey toward your healthiest self. Thank you so much for joining me.
0:27.5	Now let's get started with this week's episode. Welcome back to pursuing health. This week I am
0:36.5	sharing another solo episode, a short talk that I gave not too long ago to a small group on the shadow sides of social media. Some of my own personal experience, the ups and the downs, the good and the bad of social media and something that I am still very much wrestling with today.
0:56.1	So I hope you find it interesting, thought-provoking, and I would love to hear your thoughts on this
1:02.0	topic as well. Please always feel free to reach out on my Instagram or at the email info at
1:08.8	pursuing-health.com. Hope you enjoy.
1:15.5	This topic is social media. And while I am so grateful that I did not have to worry about
1:23.0	social media when I was a teen, it did become a part of my daily life shortly after college.
1:30.1	And it was a confluence of events that allowed this to happen. It was the introduction of
1:34.7	Instagram. It was the fact that smartphones became ubiquitous and I found myself having a
1:40.1	smartphone in my hand every day. And simultaneously, I was competing in a sport called CrossFit,
1:46.0	which was growing rapidly and I was finding success there. And so I found myself making a new
1:52.3	Instagram account, suddenly having thousands of followers overnight and now having interest
1:57.9	from companies who wanted to sponsor me and ask me to talk about their
2:01.6	products and services on social media as well. And so you can imagine that pretty quickly this
2:08.1	became a part of my everyday life and a part of my livelihood. And like all of you, I was living
2:13.7	in this giant societal experiment as we're all figuring out how to navigate
2:18.2	this new thing called social media and the impact that it's having on our lives.
2:24.0	So fast forward to the year 2020, where I'm sure like many of you, I was knee deep in a
2:31.6	full on spiritual awakening. It felt like the ground had been pulled from underneath my feet and I was knee-deep in a full-on spiritual awakening. It felt like the ground had been pulled from
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