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Mindful In Minutes Meditation

Social Media, Dopamine Detoxes, and Your Attention Span

Mindful In Minutes Meditation

Mindful In Minutes Meditation

Health & Fitness, Education, Alternative Health, Self-improvement

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Social media, dopamine detoxes, and your attention span. How do these things all work together and what does meditation have to do with it? In this freeform episode Kelly walks you through what social media is doing to our attention span, how that trickles into parts of your life like being able to read or talk to and friend and looks at if dopamine detoxes are a real thing or just a marketing ploy. Join the live 5-day stop the scroll meditation challenge ***BEGINS APRIL 23*** More Mindful in Minutes Join the free 5-day Nervous system reset to overcome overwhelm Books Order Meditation For The Modern Family You Are Not Your Thoughts: An 8-Week Anxiety Guided Meditation Journal **Download 4 sample days from You Are Not Your Thoughts Here** Join MIM on Patreon here Order Meditation For The Modern Family Let's Connect Email Kelly your questions at [email protected] Follow Kelly on instagram @yogaforyouonline Please rate, subscribe and review (it helps more than you know!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:22.0

As my kids get older, I really want to teach them to be both intentional and mindful. Mindful in body, mind, and spirit, but also financially mindful too. And April is financial literacy month, so the perfect time to start teaching your kids the value of money. And Acorns Early makes it easy with their smart money app and debit card for kids.

0:27.0

This is something I wish we would have had when I was a kid because I feel like no one taught me this stuff.

0:31.9

But Acorn's Early Chores Tracker, it teaches kids that hard work pays off.

0:33.7

So you just set up these tasks in the app.

0:37.3

You can set a payment amount and then tick the trough which is done which is like genius they have

0:38.1

savings goals that help kids turn savings into a habit kids get a new sense of independence when

0:44.1

they spend what they earn with their very own debit card plus kids can build up their money knowledge

0:49.7

and their confidence with bite-sized financial lessons, which I definitely needed that growing up.

0:55.2

I think that Acorns Early is so cool. I was actually telling my next-door neighbor about it,

0:59.6

and she was like, oh, that's what we use in our house. And funny enough, her son's side hustle

1:05.6

is walking Mila from time to time. And she's like, oh, well, when you pay my son to take Mila on a walk,

1:12.5

that's what we use. It goes on his debit card. And then he can go and buy things with it.

1:17.4

So my next door neighbor thinks it's great. I think it is so cool. It is something that I really

1:21.6

want to implement in my kids' life. I wish I had it when I was young. So if you're ready to help your kids grow money skills that will

1:28.2

last a lifetime, just head to acornsEarly.com slash mindful or download the Acorn Early's app to get

1:35.1

started. Sign up now in your first month is on us. Acorn's Early card is issued by community

1:40.5

federal savings bank, member FDIC, pursuant to license by MasterCard International.

1:46.5

T&Cs apply monthly subscription fees starting from $5 per month unless canceled.

1:59.5

Hello everyone. Welcome to this episode of the Mindful and Minutes podcast. I'm Kelly and today we are going to be talking about social media, your attention span, and the idea of dopamine detoxes. So basically we're going to look at how our attention spans are getting

2:19.4

shorter and shorter courtesy of social media and what that means for us at large and what we can do

2:25.5

to potentially reverse that. And you probably can hear in my voice that I'm on colds number like

2:31.9

19 of the year. I don't know how many weeks or in April.

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