Dr. Brian Pennie

What's she hearing?

She's like my spiritual guide, you know, that way.

And I never take my phone out when I'm walking the dog.

And it's just like, you need little things like that that organically fit into your life because the phones are, oh, the phones are a challenge.

I'm not bad, I don't doom scroll, but I find myself taking it out looking at emails too much.

So I'm not really drawn into social media.

I find it kind of aversive.

It niggles me a little bit, to be quite honest.

But I check the sports, I be checking Wordle and the weather and stuff like that.

It's crazy, the funny little things.

But I'm actually actively putting strategies in place.

I'm going to be buying one of those boxes in the home because between myself, my partner Natalie and my stepdaughter Ruby,

she only has a phone she's only 12 and we only gave it to her because we didn't want it but all of her friends had phones she was the only one that didn't but we're going to get one of these little K boxes I think they're called so you lock them in and that's where we're at that we have to lock our phones in a box to stay away from them like that's mad in itself

The consequences are immediate.

They're just, we can't notice them because they're small, but it's taken away our focus.

Like these reels, these TikTok reels, YouTube reels, Instagram reels, it's instant gratification onto the next one, onto the next one.

But that's not just like happening with the rails.

That's happening in other areas of your life.

So your body and your brain is chasing that instant hit, that instant gratification.

So the biggest consequences are that we have this inability to sit with ourselves.