Ep. 121 How the TikTok Ban Can Help You Reclaim Your Mental Health from Smartphone Overuse—Here’s the Science

Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships

Is your smartphone increasing your anxiety, decreasing your focus, and preventing you from being productive and happy?
Discover the surprising science behind its impact—and how to take control.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

1. How excessive phone use rewires your brain, diminishing your ability to focus and enjoy everyday activities.
2. The hidden ways your phone affects your sleep, relationships, and overall health—and why it’s more than just a matter of willpower.
3. How understanding the science behind cell phones can motivate you to adopt the ACT plan, helping you gain the benefits of your phone while reducing its negative impacts. (Ep. 118)

Take back control of your health, relationships, and life—press play now to uncover the science of outsmarting your smartphone!

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About the Host:
MJ Murray Vachon LCSW is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 48,000 hours of therapy sessions and 31 years of experience teaching her Mental Wellness curriculum, Inner Challenge. Four years ago she overcame her fear of technology to create a podcast that integrated her vast clinical experience and practical wisdom of cultivating mental wellness using the latest information from neuroscience. MJ was Social Worker of the Year in 2011 for Region 2/IN.
Creating Midlife Calm is a podcast designed to guide you through the challenges of midlife, tackling issues like anxiety, low self-esteem, feeling unworthy, procrastination, and isolation, while offering strategies for improving relationships, family support, emotional wellbeing, mental wellness, and parenting, with a focus on mindfulness, stress management, coping skills, and personal growth to stop rumination, overthinking, and increase confidence through self-care, emotional healing, and mental health support.