Anxiety, Distraction and Overstimulation: Why You Need a Screen Time Reset Now

In this episode of God-Sized Dreams, Melissa Batt opens the doors to the brand-new 12-Week Screen Time Reset and walks you through the deeper spiritual and emotional reasons behind your constant distraction, anxiety, and overwhelm.

If your mind feels scattered… If your phone is the first thing you grab in the morning… If you feel disconnected from God, your family, or your own thoughts… This episode is your wake-up call.

Melissa shares the urgency God placed on her heart to launch this reset now, not later, and explains why waiting until January keeps so many women stuck in cycles of avoidance, numbing, overstimulation, and survival mode. She breaks down how unhealthy screen habits affect your mental health, spiritual clarity, peace, and ability to hear God’s voice.

You’ll learn what makes this reset different from quick-fix “digital detoxes” and why the combination of emotional regulation, discipleship, nervous system care, and weekly accountability is exactly what your mind and heart have been needing.

If you’ve felt God nudging you to deal with this area of your life—or if you’re simply exhausted from feeling overwhelmed and mentally overloaded—this conversation will help you take your first baby step toward peace, clarity, and presence with God again.

Key Takeaways

● [00:02] — Welcome & Invitation Why the Screen Time Reset is starting now and why the timing matters for your peace, clarity, and mental health.

● [01:20] — Anxiety & Overstimulation How constant scrolling rewires your brain, fuels anxious thoughts, and keeps your nervous system in a state of overload.

● [03:05] — Why This Isn’t a Digital Detox This reset is not “delete your apps.” It’s healing, awareness, discipleship, emotional regulation, and rebuilding presence with God.

● [04:25] — Signs Your Phone Is Numbing You Melissa breaks down the coping patterns—avoidance, emotional overload, distraction, and survival mode—that often hide behind screen time.

● [06:05] — The Enemy Loves Comfort Why the discomfort you feel about changing your habits is often confirmation that breakthrough is needed now.

● [07:10] — What You Get Inside the Reset Weekly coaching, accountability, nervous system care tools, Scripture-centered rhythms, habit rewiring, and a community of women doing this with you.

● [08:05] — The Purpose Behind the Urgency How distraction can cause you to miss what matters most—and why God is inviting you to partner with Him now, not later.

Your Next Step

If this episode stirred something in you — if you felt conviction, urgency, or even a little resistance — that’s your sign.

Your next step isn’t to try harder or cut back on your phone alone. Your next step is to say yes and let God meet you inside this reset.

 

Sign up here: https://melissabattcoaching.myflodesk.com/screentimereset

Episode Transcript

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Hey Fred.

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Welcome back to Gods Size Dreams.
If you're listening in real time, we are officially seven days away from the start of the 12 week screen time reset, and today I'm doing something I've never done on this podcast.
I am opening the doors live right here on the mic and inviting you into something.
I fully and truly believe God is calling us to do together, not later, not someday.

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Not when life slows down or when these holidays are over.
Now, because if your mind feels scattered, if your days feel rushed, if you know you're meant to live with more presence, peace and intention, then friend.
This is your moment.
You need a reset.
And your reset starts with saying yes.
I am Alyssa Bat, and this is God-sized dreams.

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The Go-to podcast for Christian women who know they were made for more, but feel overwhelmed, exhausted, and stuck in survival mode.
I'm your Jesus Levin hype girl.
Here to help you break free, build simple healthy rhythms, and take small baby steps towards the life God has for you.
If you are ready to trade, fear for freedom.

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You are in the right place, friend.
Let's get to it. 18 00:01:13,399.581632653 --> 00:01:16,399.581632653 All right, so last week I shared the conviction. 19 00:01:17,214.581632653 --> 00:01:19,824.581632653 God put on my heart about stepping away from social media. 20 00:01:19,824.581632653 --> 00:01:27,654.581632653 This week I've shared a podcast episode about just screens in general, and today I wanna challenge you. 21 00:01:27,704.581632653 --> 00:01:33,754.581632653 This isn't about social media, this is about your life, your peace, your mind, your family. 22 00:01:35,314.581632653 --> 00:01:39,664.581632653 Your ability to truly hear God again or maybe hear him for the first time. 23 00:01:39,724.581632653 --> 00:01:43,894.58163265 And I felt him so clearly say, don't wait until January. 24 00:01:44,254.58163265 --> 00:02:01,154.58163265 And for the record, listen, I'm gonna tell you that everything in me was like God, are you sure I'm not supposed to wait? And do this later? Because it doesn't make sense to be doing it now? Lots of reasons why it does not make sense. 25 00:02:01,494.58163265 --> 00:02:07,194.58163265 So I share that to say, even today I'm like, Lord, are you sure? I don't wanna be ahead of you. 26 00:02:07,314.58163265 --> 00:02:11,124.58163265 Like, should I just start this in January? It makes sense. 27 00:02:11,944.58163265 --> 00:02:15,904.58163265 Everything I've been taught says don't do it now, do it in January. 28 00:02:16,594.58163265 --> 00:02:31,234.58163265 But even today, as I prayed, as I journaled, I just really feel like God wants me to, to launch this now because as it's necessary and needed now. 29 00:02:31,284.58163265 --> 00:02:31,794.58163265 Yes. 30 00:02:31,794.58163265 --> 00:02:34,614.58163265 You could do it in January and do it in January. 31 00:02:34,614.58163265 --> 00:02:39,444.58163265 We're gonna continue to do it in January, but start now. 32 00:02:39,554.58163265 --> 00:02:42,374.58163265 And so that is exactly what we're doing. 33 00:02:42,734.58163265 --> 00:02:44,114.58163265 This reset is different. 34 00:02:44,114.58163265 --> 00:02:45,314.58163265 I want you to hear my heart. 35 00:02:45,314.58163265 --> 00:02:46,934.58163265 This is not a digital detox. 36 00:02:46,934.58163265 --> 00:02:48,944.58163265 This is not Delete your apps and hope for the best. 37 00:02:48,944.58163265 --> 00:02:50,564.58163265 This is not self-help. 38 00:02:51,354.58163265 --> 00:02:54,684.58163265 This is definitely not shame driven. 39 00:02:54,684.58163265 --> 00:03:03,84.58163265 This is healing awareness, discipleship, nervous system care, emotional regulation, presence with God and the people in your home. 40 00:03:03,294.58163265 --> 00:03:08,94.58163265 Learning how to use your phone without letting it steal all of your time. 41 00:03:08,364.58163265 --> 00:03:18,804.58163265 This is you partnering with God to create the life he's been whispering to you about the life you miss because your brain is constantly overstimulated and overwhelmed. 42 00:03:18,804.58163265 --> 00:03:22,134.58163265 So what do you get inside the screen? Time reset. 43 00:03:22,254.58163265 --> 00:03:26,774.58163265 Inside, you're going to be receiving weekly coaching and accountability. 44 00:03:27,44.58163265 --> 00:03:30,974.58163265 A simple challenge each week to rewire the coping patterns. 45 00:03:31,154.58163265 --> 00:03:34,364.58163265 A Jesus centered rhythm that grounds your days. 46 00:03:34,364.58163265 --> 00:03:36,764.58163265 Tools to manage emotions without numbing. 47 00:03:36,764.58163265 --> 00:03:40,94.58163265 A community of women doing this with you. 48 00:03:40,244.58163265 --> 00:03:45,224.58163265 You're not a alone friend and you're gonna gain a healthier relationship with your phone. 49 00:03:45,434.58163265 --> 00:03:53,984.58163265 You're gonna get more peace, presence, mental clarity and emotional stability and friend as someone who has lived both ways. 50 00:03:54,284.58163265 --> 00:03:57,464.58163265 Life on the other side is so much lighter. 51 00:03:57,464.58163265 --> 00:04:04,114.58163265 If you're wondering, is this for you? If your phone is the first thing you reach for in the morning, yes, this is for you. 52 00:04:04,114.58163265 --> 00:04:06,634.58163265 If you feel distracted all the time, this is for you. 53 00:04:06,874.58163265 --> 00:04:09,64.58163265 Your mind doesn't stop racing. 54 00:04:09,94.58163265 --> 00:04:12,934.58163265 This is for you if you wanna be present, but feel addicted. 55 00:04:12,964.58163265 --> 00:04:14,74.58163265 This is for you. 56 00:04:14,794.58163265 --> 00:04:18,544.58163265 If you know God is nudging you to deal with this, this is for you. 57 00:04:18,754.58163265 --> 00:04:24,214.58163265 If you're tired of feeling scattered, stressed, and mentally overloaded, this is for you. 58 00:04:24,574.58163265 --> 00:04:27,364.58163265 You want your peace back and you want your life back. 59 00:04:27,364.58163265 --> 00:04:28,414.58163265 This is for you. 60 00:04:28,954.58163265 --> 00:04:34,624.58163265 If even one of those things made your stomach do a little flip. 61 00:04:35,314.58163265 --> 00:04:39,244.58163265 This is for you and I want you to know that resistance. 62 00:04:39,244.58163265 --> 00:04:41,374.58163265 This is what I've learned about resistance. 63 00:04:41,644.58163265 --> 00:04:51,964.58163265 You'll come up with a thousand excuses why this is not the time to do this, and that resistance is the enemy trying to keep you. 64 00:04:51,964.58163265 --> 00:05:05,404.58163265 Exactly where you are stuck If it makes you feel uncomfortable thinking about going into this challenge or you know, changing the relationship you have with your phone, that's a good thing. 65 00:05:05,834.58163265 --> 00:05:07,359.58163265 The enemy wants us to be comfortable. 66 00:05:08,549.58163265 --> 00:05:09,59.58163265 Right. 67 00:05:09,509.58163265 --> 00:05:19,979.58163265 God says it's in the moments of discomfort when we will rely on him and learn just how much we can trust him. 68 00:05:21,886.24829932 --> 00:05:39,936.24829932 If this is stirring something in you, if a part of you is thinking, I know I need this, but I'm just not sure I'm ready, I want you to pay attention to that because sometimes the reason God says now is because some of you genuinely cannot afford to stay in the same patterns for another little bit of time. 69 00:05:40,326.24829932 --> 00:05:41,256.24829932 You need this now. 70 00:05:41,256.24829932 --> 00:05:42,846.24829932 You truly need it now. 71 00:05:43,26.24829932 --> 00:05:44,46.24829932 Not another month. 72 00:05:44,136.24829932 --> 00:05:44,946.24829932 It can't wait. 73 00:05:45,456.24829932 --> 00:05:48,36.24829932 Not another season, not when things calm down. 74 00:05:49,506.24829932 --> 00:06:03,906.24829932 Because the longer we stay in patterns of distraction, avoidance, overstimulation, and emotional exhaustion, the harder it becomes to hear God clearly and the easier it becomes to slip right back into survival mode. 75 00:06:05,386.24829932 --> 00:06:11,466.24829932 If you go to the sales page of this program that I've created, I want you to go watch the video. 76 00:06:11,946.24829932 --> 00:06:14,406.24829932 I included I think my hair's pulled back. 77 00:06:14,796.24829932 --> 00:06:18,906.24829932 Wasn't planning on doing a video, but there was just urgency. 78 00:06:19,26.24829932 --> 00:06:22,926.24829932 I was sensing, and I'm sensing it now. 79 00:06:22,926.24829932 --> 00:06:27,836.24829932 Again, there's things that are going on in your life. 80 00:06:29,291.24829932 --> 00:06:32,981.24829932 Maybe even in your home that you do not even know of. 81 00:06:33,41.24829932 --> 00:06:36,71.24829932 You don't know what's happening because you're distracted. 82 00:06:36,71.24829932 --> 00:06:40,811.24829932 And I don't say that to shame you because it's, it's definitely not what I would want to do. 83 00:06:42,581.24829932 --> 00:06:48,751.24829932 But I know because I've been there, I know the things that I almost missed. 84 00:06:49,111.24829932 --> 00:06:56,911.24829932 And honestly, some of the things I did miss when I wasn't paying attention and when I was slipping in survival mode. 85 00:06:57,481.24829932 --> 00:07:06,31.24829932 It is why I do everything that I do, all of the coaching that I do, life coaching, this workshop, everything one-to-one. 86 00:07:06,511.24829932 --> 00:07:10,471.24829932 I do it all from this place because I know what I missed. 87 00:07:10,471.24829932 --> 00:07:34,171.24829932 I know what I almost missed, and it was big and it was heavy, and it was hard, and I am so thankful that I was able to wake up and pay attention and see the things that was in front of me before it was too late and disaster happened and we suffered consequences that would be life changing and very traumatic. 88 00:07:35,206.24829932 --> 00:07:38,236.24829932 I also want you to remember, your mind deserves rest. 89 00:07:38,236.24829932 --> 00:07:39,946.24829932 Your heart deserves clarity. 90 00:07:40,366.24829932 --> 00:07:46,246.24829932 Your home deserves your presence and your walk with Jesus deserves room to breathe again. 91 00:07:46,666.24829932 --> 00:07:51,196.24829932 And that's why we're beginning this together now, not outta pressure, but outta purpose. 92 00:07:51,901.24829932 --> 00:07:54,781.24829932 But also again, that sensitive urgency. 93 00:07:55,336.24829932 --> 00:07:56,326.24829932 Here's what you need to know. 94 00:07:56,416.24829932 --> 00:07:58,96.24829932 Doors are officially open. 95 00:07:58,336.24829932 --> 00:08:05,236.24829932 We begin December 1st, and when you join now, you actually are gonna get three bonus sessions completely free. 96 00:08:05,506.24829932 --> 00:08:12,196.24829932 December 1st, December 8th, December 15th, before the full 12 weeks officially begin in January. 97 00:08:12,226.24829932 --> 00:08:13,186.24829932 Yay. 98 00:08:13,396.24829932 --> 00:08:20,446.24829932 That means more support, more structure, more accountability, and more space for God to move before the year even ends. 99 00:08:20,686.24829932 --> 00:08:24,496.24829932 I am here for it, and I hope you are too, and if you're feeling that tug. 100 00:08:24,586.24829932 --> 00:08:30,526.24829932 That knowing, don't wait for perfect conditions because perfect conditions will never come. 101 00:08:30,586.24829932 --> 00:08:31,426.24829932 Just say yes. 102 00:08:31,696.24829932 --> 00:08:38,326.24829932 Let this be the moment you choose peace over pressure, presence over distraction, and alignment over avoidance. 103 00:08:38,596.24829932 --> 00:08:40,6.24829932 Click the link in the show notes. 104 00:08:40,6.24829932 --> 00:08:45,556.24829932 Join us inside the 12 weeks screen time reset, and I will see you on the inside, friend. 105 00:08:45,676.24829932 --> 00:08:48,706.24829932 Until next time, put your phone in the other room. 106 00:08:48,916.24829932 --> 00:08:52,696.24829932 Take a deep breath and trust that God is already ahead of you in this. 107 00:08:52,696.24829932 --> 00:08:53,176.24829932 Yes. 108 00:08:53,176.24829932 --> 00:08:57,621.24829932 And that's a wrap friend, if today's episode spoke to you, don't let this be the moment. 109 00:08:57,781.24829932 --> 00:09:00,631.24829932 You hit pause and go right back into that same cycle. 110 00:09:00,901.24829932 --> 00:09:12,901.24829932 Whether you're ready to go all in and commit to six months of breakthrough coaching, or you only want a single unstuck session right now, you'll find all the links in the show notes or on my website at Melissa bat. 111 00:09:13,411.24829932 --> 00:09:15,786.24829932 That's Melissa bat with two ts.com. 112 00:09:16,411.24829932 --> 00:09:19,21.24829932 Slash breakthrough dash coaching. 113 00:09:19,231.24829932 --> 00:09:21,571.24829932 Let's keep taking those baby steps together.