{"id":32507,"date":"2025-03-04T13:59:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T18:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/?p=32507"},"modified":"2025-03-04T13:59:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T18:59:18","slug":"want-less-screen-time-heres-info-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2025\/03\/want-less-screen-time-heres-info-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Want Less Screen Time?  Here&#8217;s Info You Need To Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I listened to a podcast this morning with Mel Robbins (have you figured out yet that she is one of my favourites to listen to? lol) and in this podcast, she asks the question &#8220;Do you wish you could stay off your phone?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How would you answer that question?\u00a0 Me?\u00a0 I was nodding my head and shouting &#8220;Yes!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seriously.\u00a0 How much time do we spend on our phones?\u00a0 All the apps, the social media, the scrolling.\u00a0 How many times do you sit in front of the tv or at the dinner table with your phone?\u00a0 How many hours go by as you mindlessly scroll social media?<\/p>\n<p>In this episode, Mel Robbins shares some info that will forever change the way you see your phone, your attention and your time.<\/p>\n<p>Because what we learn?\u00a0 BIG TECH is tricking our brains.\u00a0 It&#8217;s taking our time, our attention, draining our energy.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s designed that way.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode &#8211; you&#8217;ll learn why you feel so exhausted after all that scrolling, why it&#8217;s so hard to stop checking your phone, and how social media is manipulating you in ways you don&#8217;t even realize.<\/p>\n<p>Take a listen and then come back and let me know what you thought and if you&#8217;re ready to take a break from your phone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:cbuchanan@blackburnmedia.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cbuchanan@blackburnmedia.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SO9FHaF4EJw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I listened to a podcast this morning with Mel Robbins (have you figured out yet that she is one of my favourites to listen to? lol) and in this podcast, she asks the question &#8220;Do you wish you could stay off your phone?&#8221; How would you answer that question?\u00a0 Me?\u00a0 I was nodding my head","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":23667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 14:53:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/foxfm.com\/blogs\/afternoons\/2025\/03\/want-less-screen-time-heres-info-you-need-to-know\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32507"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32511,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32507\/revisions\/32511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}