Weaponized Belonging, Pandemic Trauma, Social Media Anxiety & Reclaiming Your Autonomy | Mark Groves

The Art of Being Well

Dear Media, Will Cole

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4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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In this episode, Dr. Will Cole sits down with relationship expert and Create the Love founder Mark Groves for a powerful conversation on digital addiction, nervous system health, and the psychology of belonging. From the trauma of the pandemic to the emotional toll of social media, they unpack how shame, fear, and overexposure to technology dysregulate our biology. Mark shares how leaving social media for six months transformed his anxiety, blood sugar, and sleep - and how you can rebuild a healthier relationship with tech, your body, and yourself. For all links mentioned in this episode, visit www.drwillcole.com/podcast.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a Dear Media production. Hi, it's Dr. Will Cole. This podcast is the manifesto for a new breed of health seekers. This is the art of being well.
0:28.0	What's up and welcome to the art of being well?
0:34.3	Basic labs can miss so much when it comes to figuring out what are the pieces to your health puzzle.
0:35.4	You know your body.
0:38.2	There's so much medical gas lighting in our system when it comes to people struggling with chronic health issues or just not thriving. And in our
0:43.5	culture where chronic disease is rampant, we tend to normalize things that we should not normalize.
0:49.5	Just because something's common doesn't necessarily make it normal and just because something's your everyday doesn't
0:55.7	mean you should settle for it and I've seen this firsthand over the past 16 years having started the
1:00.6	first functional medicine telehealth center and I look at labs all day long and I see people that
1:06.5	finally had this aha moment of I knew something was off and this isn't to look for problems
1:13.0	where there aren't any people know how they feel and they should get the answers they deserve
1:18.6	so when you look at things like underlying gut problems environmental toxins nutrient deficiencies
1:23.9	hormonal imbalances and even the impact that chronic stress and unresolved
1:28.4	past trauma, how that is stored in the body and how that needs to be metabolized just as much
1:34.0	as you would an environmental issue. When you look at these pieces to the puzzle that science is
1:39.5	looking at as to the components as to why we're seeing this epidemic rise of health issues.
1:46.1	When you look at these factors, you can deal with it and do something about it.
1:50.0	So this is about really empowering people because as Maya Angelou said, when you know better,
1:54.7	you do better, at least, you know, hopefully, right?
1:56.7	So if you want to learn more about a functional medicine perspective on how we help people around the
2:00.8	world, on labs and protocols, head on over to Dr. Willcoll.com. That's dR-W-I-L-C-O-L-E.com. And you can see
2:09.7	the different ways that we're there for people around the world. All right, let's get to today's
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