Digital Detox

About this Episode Welcome to today’s episode of The Communication Solution podcast with Casey Jackson, John Gilbert and Danielle Cantin. We love talking about Motivational Interviewing, and about improving outcomes for individuals, organizations, and the communities that they serve.Today we delve into the topic of digital detox. We discuss our personal experiences with social media, emphasizing the importance of aligning behavior with one’s core values. The conversation touches on the impact of advocacy on social media, the need for authenticity, and the potential risks associated with excessive screen time. In this episode, we discuss: Exploring the pervasive impact of digital technology and screen time on our lives, and the need for a digital detox. Personal experiences with digital detox, including the realization of its effects on behavior and values alignment. Reflecting on the challenge of balancing advocacy and social media, and the potential for generating resistance. The importance of seeking alignment between behavior and values in the context of social media use. Recognizing the potential benefits and drawbacks of social media, and the role of values-driven decisions in using it. Addressing the role of social media in fulfilling the human need for connection, contribution, and understanding. Considering the responsibility and potential risks associated with using social media platforms. Emphasizing the value of empathy and understanding in navigating social media interactions. Encouraging self-reflection and taking steps towards positive behavior change in the digital realm. You don’t want to miss this one! Make sure to rate us or share this podcast. It would mean so much to us! Thank you for listening to the Communication Solution Podcast with Casey Jackson and John Gilbert. As always, this podcast is all about you. If you have questions, thoughts, topic suggestions, or ideas, please send them our way at [email protected]. For more resources, feel free to check out ifioc.com. Join MI PLUS+ Want a transcript? See below! Hello, and welcome to the communication solution podcast with Casey Jackson and John Gilbert. I’m your host, Danielle Cantin. We love to talk about communication. We love to talk about solutions, and we love to talk about providing measurable results for individuals, organizations, and the communities they serve. Welcome to the communication solution that will change your world. Welcome everyone. I’m Danielle Cantin, facilitator of the communication solution with Casey Jackson and John Gilbert, and we’re here to talk about everything related to motivational interviewing. And it pretty much does touch every part of our world. Today, we’re going to dive into an incredible topic. One that I’m pretty sure every single human is familiar with and it’s digital detox. Oh my God. It’s taking over our world. When I see the little screen pop up to let me know my screen time, it’s just like, Oh, So what am I doing? And that’s just me as a human. I’m not even worrying about a child or everybody else in my life and what they’re doing, but it just can’t, it makes me think of, of how, you know, we’re trying to all connect with each other. And yet we’ve got this digital interruption that’s happening. That’s really preventing us from those deeper connections. So with that, I want to turn it over to, to you guys to dive into this world of digital and perhaps good ways to detox. Well, I’ll tell you what’s fascinating for me about this is just read this relatively recently within, you know, the last seven months, my two of my social media accounts were hacked my personal ones and deleted. Which meant deleted. I couldn’t recover them. Facebook and Instagram. Yeah. So I didn’t, I didn’t, I just know how much Casey’s, how that’s a big deal. Well, is this part of that digital detox? That’s why I think it’s a great topic because the only thing that really bothered me, it surprised, I think I was surprised at how. Little bit of a, little of a response that I had to that. My biggest thing was no pictures that I’d posted that I wonder if I still have them on my phone or those kinds of things. What I was annoyed with was the fact that there’s no customer service. So there’s no customer service to restore your accounts. There’s no phone numbers. There’s no emails or nothing. You just, you just start a new one. And there was something that struck me. I was so annoyed that I just thought, you know what, if you really don’t care that much about customer service, I really don’t care that much about your product. And so I never signed up for new accounts on Facebook or Instagram, and haven’t. So then my spouse saw that my screen time went down so significantly that then just deactivated those accounts and it was shocking the drop in, and I’ve, and I’ve never re signed up for new accounts in the last seven months. So I don’t have an Instagram or Facebook account. I’ll tell you the things that are fascinating to me, and this is where motivation comes into it. Is it really does push? Is your behavior in line with your values? And this is more complicated than I would have thought of. Now that I’m living it, it doesn’t mean that I’m not on, you know, I don’t check things out. You know, I’m more of a news junkie than anything else. And a research junkie. But What I did notice that my habits are, I tend to want to forward political things that I have a really strong emotional attraction to, and have a lot of reaction to. And I know that for as much as it would generate people who I’m friends with jumping on board who think that way, it also generated just as much of the opposite reaction. Um. But I am such a social worker at heart and such an advocate and I believe so strongly in the things that I believe, but the push comes to shove with motivational interviewing is on one hand, my behaviors in line with my values, but in that exact same moment of pushing send or posting something, I know it’s going to generate resistance. I know it is. I know that there’s going to be half the people that I know that are friends of mine that are going to jump on board and say, I’m so glad you posted that, you know, where did you get that link? I totally agree with you. And I know there’s going to be another handful of people that I know that automatically we’re going to go, you know, this is what I hate when Casey posted these things. And I think that’s the human dimensionality of who each of us is, but it is so. Counter indicated when you’re looking through an M. I. Lens. So I’m not going to say it’s wrong because M. I. Is not for every situation. We need advocates in the world. We need to do all sorts of profound things that we hope will create change. But a very bitter, bitter pill to swallow with that as well, too, is When I’m trying to do advocacy or get my behavior in line with my values or do things on social media, there’s things that I know that I’m generating resistance or embedding and deepening resistance in people at the same time. And that’s not who I want to be with my behavior being aligned with my values at the same time. So what are, what are ways that we do that? And I, so it’s just, it’s fascinating. To think about how do you get into digital detox when it’s so pervasive in our lives on such an emotional level, a social level, a political level, economic level. You know what I love about this? That everybody it’s such a broad topic. If you think about detoxing from what first you have to identify what it is. So I love that you introduced right away. Are you aligned with your values? So that that because I read so many articles and points of view on social media, and if you just look at one, it can be a little confusing. Like one was how social media, everybody’s just putting on a fake persona of is there is that the reality of the life they’re living? And I’m like, I don’t know that it ever could, because we’re not on social media all the time to, there are some people who are out there sharing every moment of their life, but, How often that is, I’m not sure. So there’s all of these different stories around, the digital world. So really identifying and starting with, is it aligned with, is my behavior aligned with social for me? It’s a tool. It’s a tool I use to get messages of hope out to people to try to do something that’s going to uplift them to make them think differently. But I do have that bit of, Oh, what are people going to think about it? And I don’t want it to, you know, get that reaction. But at the end of the day, I think when it comes to detox for me. Is I definitely value a sense of, I don’t know if it’s autonomy or I want to be present with myself and proactive, not necessarily reactive. So when I look at my screen time and I think of social media, I’m like, ding, ding, ding, something else is driving me other than my connection with where I want my moment or day to go and the contribution I want to be. So that’s the detox part that I’m like, Ooh, that that’s it. And I think that the part of what I think of is I just, I don’t want to contribute. And I thought about this before we even started a podcast was I don’t want to contribute to white noise. I don’t want to contribute to that. So where is it that you want to have positive messages out there? But when so many people are clamoring, To ge...