Ditching the Digital Drain: The 1-Hour Trick to Reclaiming Your Headspace

Are you completely exhausted by your phone? Between checking social media the second we wake up and sending emails from the dinner table, the average Australian is drowning in screen time—with young people hitting a massive nine hours a day. It’s leaving us mentally wiped out, sparking a massive online trend for the "digital detox." But does locking your phone in a drawer for a weekend actually cure your stress, or is it just a passing health fad? Brent sits down with leading digital wellbeing expert Dr Jo Orlando to uncover the science of stepping away from the screen. Dr Jo explains why going "cold turkey" almost always fails by day two, and reveals why shaving just one single hour a day off your screen time is the ultimate sweet spot for boosting your mood, lowering anxiety, and beating the "zombie scroll." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.