The Covid pandemic has led to huge amounts of societal change in the US and around the world. That includes our kids’ relationship with their screens and devices. Over the past 18 months, for many kids, screens have become… ...
Covid misinformation, disinformation* and anti-vax messaging is currently spreading like wildfire in social media. In essence, this is parallel pandemic–an infodemic, in which false information is spreading as quickly as the ...
Imagine if you threw an open-invitation party at your house. Nearly everyone who showed up was ushered inside–even people you barely knew, even people you hadn’t seen for years. The more the merrier, right? Well, that’s how ...
Today is International Digital Wellness Day. If you don’t know what that’s celebrating, you’re not alone. “Digital Wellness” sounds like it should be about using digital technology to make yourself well—like ...
Stop. Check in with your body right now… Is your chest inflated or tense/tight? Are your teeth clenched? Jaw tight? Are you holding your breath? If you just took a breath, was it only a small sip of air? If so, you’re currently ...
Phubbing may be a silly word, but it’s a very real problem many of us have experienced. In basic terms, phubbing is when someone ignores the live human(s) in front of them to instead pay attention to their phone (or other mobile ...
We spend nearly half of every day, not actually IN the moment, but lost in our thoughts, memories, daydreams, or rumination about the past or future. When we do this, it activates our default network, a group of areas within our brain ...
Five digital wellness tips to kick-start 2021
I read 102 books in 2020. The best of the lot are summarized below and my Goodreads reviews for each can be found here. To be clear, not all of these books came out in 2020. Some are older and some, (like my Netgalley ...
I’ve alway had pretty bad timing in my life. This eCourse was certainly no exception. Doing a deep dive into digital wellness in the midst of a global pandemic, which forced most of us to vastly increase our use of ...
