TAKE THIS PERSONALLY: Social Media Overload: How to Protect Your Mind and Mental Health
The Bobby Bones Show
Premiere Networks
4.8 • 9.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Social media is everywhere and it’s changing the way we think, feel, and interact. Amanda White, licensed therapist and host of Nuance Needed, returns to unpack the real impact of viral trends, rage bait, and online advice on our mental health.
Amanda shares practical strategies for:
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Recognizing and avoiding misleading or extreme content online.
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Reclaiming your attention in a world designed to distract you.
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Practicing psychological flexibility and healthy boundaries in daily life.
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Taking small, intentional steps toward balance and wellbeing.
Whether you scroll daily or just peek at trends, this conversation will make you rethink how you interact with social media and help you take back control of your mind.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:27.3 | Anyone else having the post-Turkey family time blues? I am feeling it this week. |
| 0:33.3 | With the holidays coming up, I've got a lot of awesome interviews for you guys, but they're a bit more hodgepodge than series. |
| 0:37.3 | So we may have a few mini-series over the next couple of weeks or it may be totally random. |
| 0:39.2 | Also, with your input, hopefully. |
| 0:43.5 | I love when you guys share what you want to hear and who you may want me to have on as a guest. |
| 0:46.4 | This week's episode, I wanted to bring back on Amanda White. |
| 0:49.9 | She's a therapist and she was on my very first episode of this podcast. |
| 0:59.6 | She recently started her own podcast, nuance needed, to address the way social media has changed the landscape for our relationships, mental health, and, well, everything. |
| 1:02.3 | I think you guys are going to love this conversation. Let's do it. |
| 1:20.6 | You all may remember Amanda White. She was the very first episode that we had of take this personally many, many months ago now. But I'm excited to welcome her back. Amanda, how are you? Thanks for coming on. |
| 1:29.7 | I'm good. Thanks so much for having me. I'm excited to chat with you, Morgan. Me too, because there's so much life has happened since we last had you on and we talked about a whole lot of things. But honestly, more than anything, social media |
| 1:35.0 | has changed drastically in the last two years since we've talked. And that was kind of the whole |
| 1:41.0 | reason I brought you on. So we're going to get into it. But I want to start with why you created a podcast that's all about nuance. |
| 1:49.9 | I think it's what's missing in the world, right? I just feel so frustrated lately with social media. I think it's just gotten worse and worse over the past couple years where I've been explaining it like |
| 2:01.9 | it feels like we're playing this giant game of telephone. And what started as like helpful |
| 2:08.2 | concepts and important things we were educating people on has become twisted and misconstrued. |
| 2:16.4 | And we are talking about something totally different than what we |
| 2:20.6 | started with. And a lot of that is because concepts all across the board, I'm obviously talking |
| 2:27.2 | about mental health concepts and therapy concepts, but in different categories also have |
| 2:32.6 | just flattened so much that it's stripping everything of nuance |
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