496: Put Your Cell Phone In Its Place: Strategies for Less Screen Time and More Real Life

Wise Traditions

Weston A. Price Foundation

Wellness, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition, Diet, Health

4.7 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

How can we loosen the grip of our devices? Do we own them or do they own us? Joey Odom is the founder of ARO, a company committed to helping us spend less time on our phones.

Too much screen time can have a negative impact on our psychological and physical health. Depression, suicidal ideation, and anxiety are real outcomes from investing too much time on social media. In some ways, our phones have become like pacifiers and comfort objects for many of us. Today, Joey offers numerous strategies for reclaiming our lives and releasing our phones. He shares his stop/start philosophy and guidelines we can use as families to rein in the time we spend on our devices.

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0:00.0	From the Westin A Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions podcast for
0:10.4	Wise Traditions in Food, farming, and the healing arts.
0:14.0	We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal
0:18.6	health.
0:19.6	And now here is our host and producer, Hilda Labrada Gore.
0:27.0	Hey, Hilda here!
0:30.0	91% of people have their phones with them 24 hours a day.
0:35.0	Yes, you heard me right, 24 hours a day.
0:38.0	The question is, do we own our phones or do they own us?
0:42.0	This is episode 496 and our guest today is Joey Odom, the
0:46.7	founder of Aro, a company committed to helping people spend less time on their
0:50.6	phones and more time making memories.
0:52.8	Joey discusses today how we can spend more time connecting with people and less time on our
0:57.0	devices.
0:58.0	He's well aware that they are addictive, so what can we do to put them in their place? He reminds us how social media can not only block our real life relationships,
1:07.2	but it can lead to anxiety, suicidal ideation, and other issues.
1:10.8	So he gives us ideas about what we can do as adults to model better
1:15.0	ways of interacting with our phone, like identifying sacred spaces and times when we
1:19.5	wouldn't use it at all, for example. And Joey offers quick tips that can help us establish new and
1:25.7	healthier habits when it comes to tech use.
1:28.8	And as the Westinay Price Foundation always says, we want technology to be our servant not the other way around.
1:35.0	Before we get into the conversation, the Wise Traditions Conference is only 11 days away.
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