We hate to say it, but one of the most significant relationships we have as modern women is the one we have with our phone. But while we have many good reasons for using them, we have to admit that our phone usage has an impact on our relationships and on our mental health. Today, we get honest about those impacts, and ask the practical question - short of building a time machine to the 1990s, is there anything we can do to improve things?

Listen to learn more about:

• how our phone usage harms our most important (and even very casual) relationships
• a few of the ways our phones damage our mental and physical health
• some practical suggestions to change your relationship with your phone

Plus, Jess ruins everything for everyone by making a plan (and thereby causing a blizzard which kept her kids at home which wrecked the plan); Andrea and Jessica wrestle with the word ironic (thanks, Alanis!); and we reveal how we discover Tik Tok trends (via MSNBC articles about 3 months later… tell me you’re a millennial without telling me you’re a millennial!)

Like this episode? Check out these:

• Exploring Mommy Wine Culture During Dry January (January 9, 2024) - if you want to explore another tricky cultural topic that has pretty straightforward research about it
• So You Lost Your Shit... (September 20, 2023) - if you're looking for the episode where we discuss the difference between guilt and shame.
• New Year, New You? (January 2, 2024) - cause we mentioned that Jessica has some feelings about New Years Resolutions

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Honest Women is the podcast for every woman juggling the demands of modern life (while trying to keep her shit together) and finding that it’s all just a little more difficult than she thought it would be. Your hosts, Andrea Burkly and Jessica Hutchison, are two very real mental health professionals who are taking honest conversations from inside their offices to the outside world.

Disclaimer:

Please note while this podcast features two therapists, and may feel very therapeutic, this is not therapy! Please be entertained, and know that through our creative content, we are not providing mental health care. No diagnosis. No treatment. No medical advice. Just creative content. Please seek appropriate mental health support in the real world.

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