Looking to feel better? Want to help your children feel better?
It might be time for a detox. And the one we're talking about actually works.
The Odyssey: Parenting. Caregiving. Disability.
The Center for Family Involvement at VCU School of Education's Partnership for People with Disabilities provides informational and emotional support to people with disabilities and their families. All of our services are free. We just want to help. We know how hard this can be because we're in it with you.
SHOW NOTES:
Details on the United States Surgeon General's Advisory About Effects of Social Media on Youth Mental Health.
Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy's Op Ed Essay on why he's calling for a warning label for social media.
Here is a full review of the book The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt.
Want to share your own experiences attempting a digital detox? Send Erin an email!
TRANSCRIPT:
Welcome to The Odyssey. Parenting, Caregiving, Disability. I'm Erin Croyle, the creator and host of the Odyssey podcast explores how our lives change when someone we love has a disability. I was lucky enough to head down this less traveled road when my first child was born with Down's Syndrome in 2010. Now I work for the Center for Family Involvement and Lisa's Partnership for People with Disabilities.
01:00:34:17 - 01:01:06:12
Erin Croyle
This podcast explores the triumphs and hardships we face. We celebrate the joys that the odyssey of parenting, caregiving and disability bring. But there's no sugarcoating of the tough stuff for so many of us. Everything feels harder than it should lately. Most everyone I know is just sort of getting by. That whole living your best life vibe that we had going around several years ago is mocked in a lot of circles.
01:01:06:14 - 01:01:22:15
Erin Croyle
So what's going on and what can we do to change it? Dare I say, a detox is in order and the one I'm recommending is something virtually everyone needs.
01:01:22:17 - 01:01:46:01
Erin Croyle
Is anyone okay right now? I'm living in this fog that's just clinging to every part of my being. My brain, my body, my soul. It lightens now and then and even lifts for a bit once in a while. But most of the time, it's so dense. I feel it pulling me down. When I talk to people close to me, most of them are in this metaphorical fog too.
01:01:46:03 - 01:02:10:05
Erin Croyle
I'm sure that some of what my age said is feeling is partly part of middle age, but I see it in my children and other kids their ages. I see it in. I see it across the board. This is an unprecedented mental health crisis that we're in. Our whole country is living under a heaviness like never before. So how do we feel?
01:02:10:05 - 01:02:39:01
Erin Croyle
Better. Look, I'm a journalist, not a doctor. Over the years, I've read, listened to, watched and or tried practically every bit of healthy living advice out there clean eating, running, tracking macros, fitnes
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