HEALTHY BITE | Finding Balance In Our Digital World

Welcome to a featured episode of Dr Ron Ehrlich’s Healthy Bite Podcast.

This episode features psychologist, Jocelyn Brewer. Rather than detoxing and unplugging from technology, her approach is more on the intelligent and intentional use and conscious consumption of our devices.

Tune in as Dr Ron and Jocelyn tackle more about digital media and its effect on people. Also recommended is the book by Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Minds.

Finding Balance In Our Digital World

Listen to the inspiring and motivational ideas Dr Ron explored with psychologist, Jocelyn Brewer. Jocelyn is a psychologist and educator. She specialises in helping people be well-connected and mentally fit. And why couldn’t we all use more of that? She’s about rather than detoxing or unplugging from technology because that isn’t going to happen. She’s more about the intelligent and intentional use of our devices and the conscious consumption of news, media, and information, information inflammation.

If we have too much digital, mindless digital interaction, then I’m almost certain that will affect chronic inflammation as well. But I digress. She talked about so many good parts to this, and I loved her analogy of the three, not the analogy, three M’s.

The Three M’s of Digital Nutrition

Mindful. Being mindful in your engagement with technology, not just mindlessly sitting there going down the rabbit hole of YouTube or Facebook or Twitter or any other of these things also about it being Meaningful, that there is some purpose to what you are actually doing, and importantly, to be Moderate. Moderate in your time, but also moderate what you are watching. I also really loved the way she was talking about this right across a family. Jocelyn really does specialise in this area particularly.

This goes back to a conversation Ron had last year with psychologist Jodie Lowinger from The Anxiety Clinic. She shared a statistic that was extremely concerning, and that is one in five children under the age of 18 are diagnosed with either anxiety or depression — and that is actually diagnosed. One can only imagine how many undiagnosed cases of anxiety and depression are going on.

Read the full article on Dr Ron’s website and find out more about his Unstress Podcast…

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