Larissa May

Do we want to chase our dreams or do we want to be behind these things that are making billions of dollars for a couple guys in Silicon Valley?

I think we really need to get out of the consumer seat and into the driver's seat when it comes to technology.

And what I mean by that is that you can literally retrain your mind or your child's mind by engaging with technology 20 minutes a day and doing something joyful.

Well, the beginning of digital wellness started with digital sickness.

I literally was scrolling to death.

I was a college student spending 10 to 12 hours a day behind my screen.

I was scrolling more than I was walking, sleeping or socializing.

And luckily, I had an RA that saved my life, but I was going to the psychiatrist every day, and I found it really interesting.

that they asked me about drugs, sex and alcohol, but not the drug that was in my pocket.

And that was the beginning of the big idea 10 years ago, which was maybe digital wellness is the new wellness, in that as humans, we have to cultivate a healthy relationship with technology if we want to be around for another millennia.

Right, right.

Well, I think the thing that I've learned on the 10 years of exploration is that screens are really just symptoms.

So many young people, and adults too, we go to our screens because it's more comfortable than actually dealing with the emotions, whether it's sadness, depression, anxiety.

And for me, I just didn't have the skills, the emotional resilience and the digital age that I needed

But I was given a device and was told to, hey, go through this life milestone.

Go to college.

Figure out how to be a human.

And by the way, you're going to have a stage in your pocket the entire time.

And then I started looking into it.

I think most of us, we look around, we see our kids, our parents on their phones.