There’s More to Life Than Doomscrolling: How to ACTUALLY Break Your Phone Addiction
Trying Not to Care
Ashley Corbo
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
If you find yourself glued to your phone, scrolling social media for hours and wasting the day away… this episode is for you! It’s honestly embarrassing how high my average screen time is, so this year I’m making it a goal to spend less time in the digital world and be more present in my real life. It’s time to break the habit of doomscrolling — and here’s how to ACTUALLY do it…
WHAT WE’LL TALK ABOUT ↓
🤍 Why were addicted to social media
🤍 Breaking down why you can’t stop scrolling
🤍 Getting clear on how you want your day to look
🤍 Making a schedule to help productivity
🤍 Things that are better for you than scrolling
🤍 Creating your own personal curriculum
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to or welcome back to Trina to Care. If you're new here, my name's Ashley and I |
| 0:05.4 | upload every single Monday and we just sit down. We have a little girl talk. I give you tips and |
| 0:11.3 | tricks on navigating your life, mental health, and just everything self-improvement related. |
| 0:16.5 | Before we get into today's episode, I did want to finally announce that on February 13th, |
| 0:21.5 | merch is coming back. I'm so excited for this drop. It's going to be very similar to the past |
| 0:26.5 | two, but I just wanted to switch it up a little bit. But this is also my first launch that I'm doing |
| 0:31.4 | completely on my own. So I'm a little nervous, but definitely more so excited. So if you want |
| 0:36.5 | to see the merch, the merch make sure to |
| 0:38.7 | follow my instagram and ticot to be notified when it's live february 13th it's a friday it's the day |
| 0:44.6 | before valentine's day and yeah i'm so excited i can't wait to match with you and it's going to be so |
| 0:50.5 | good but for today's episode i want to talk about our addiction to |
| 0:55.1 | scrolling on our phones and how to break the habit of it to actually be able to enjoy our lives. |
| 1:01.1 | A common New Year's resolution is to lower your screen time because a lot of us are painfully |
| 1:06.6 | aware of how long we spend on our phones. Some of us are afraid to even look at our documented |
| 1:13.9 | screen time because of how high it might be. We're avoiding the accountability of being glued to |
| 1:20.4 | our phone, but we know it's high and we're like, okay, we need to break it. Many people have this |
| 1:24.7 | routine of going to work, going to school, and then coming home and being so |
| 1:29.5 | tired from the day that all they want to do is relax, but relaxing to them is laying in bed, |
| 1:34.6 | laying on the couch, and scrolling on their phone. The thing about using your phone as a way of |
| 1:39.9 | rest is it's not restful. It's actually the complete opposite. Apps like Instagram and TikTok are so |
| 1:47.4 | overstimulating and not good for our nervous system. And on top of that, they can contribute to things |
| 1:53.9 | like comparison and low self-esteem and burnout, which makes you feel even more drained or even depressed. |
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