The Urgent Need for AI Wellness: Why We Must Act Now

AI companionship is reshaping how young people form connections, but with it comes unprecedented risks. Schools, employers, and healthcare providers must act now to guide responsible AI use. From teaching students healthy boundaries with AI to offering AI wellness resources for families, every part of the community has a role to play. We cannot wait for legislation to catch up—protecting our children's mental health in the age of AI requires immediate, coordinated action. The time to act is now.

Scroll By ChoiceOctober 23, 2024

Digital Wellness Trampoline: Smiles, Skills and Surprises

The Digital Wellness Trampoline is a comprehensive approach to navigating our digital lives. Its strength lies in its adaptability.

Companies have implemented the framework to define positive digital cultures, enhancing employee productivity and well-being.
School districts have integrated it into their phone-use policies, guiding students, staff, and parents toward shared digital wellness goals.
Individuals and families have built personal trampolines, customizing the framework to suit their unique digital habits and needs.

Its simplicity—paired with measurable progress—makes it broadly accessible.

Scroll By ChoiceOctober 20, 2024

Why is it hard to talk about screentime?

From Burnout At Work, Loneliness at Home and Distractions in School - imbalanced relationships with technology affect us deeply. Yet, we don’t have the words to talk about it. Let’s learn how to talk about screentime!

Scroll By ChoiceApril 8, 2024

Bored at work and hooked to screens!

Do you feel bored and disengaged at work? Do you find yourself scrolling through social media or playing games on your phone instead of focusing on your tasks? Workplace boredom is a common and serious problem that affects millions of workers across different industries and roles. It can lead to low productivity, poor performance & stress. This article explores options to reclaim the power that devices can sometimes take away and use the boredom for positive purposes!

Scroll By ChoiceJanuary 25, 2024

Can't lose weight? How's your Screentime?

Lots of us are eating while watching TikTok or scrolling through Instagram. Some even check emails during meals. But here's the thing: How does this impact your weight? Let's see how this habit might affect your ability to stay on top of your weight management goals.

Scroll By ChoiceJanuary 22, 2024

Instagram: Delete, Reinstall, Repeat. The tiring loop.

“I usually delete the app from my phone and sparingly use it from my desktop computer, which reduces the amount of time spent, but one way or another, I always end up downloading it again... In a never-ending circle of wasting time. - Reddit user” From burnout to lost creativity and poor wellness. Being constantly connected to devices creates challenges for workplace professionals, entrepreneurs, teens and young adults. What causes this and what can you do about it?

Scroll By ChoiceJanuary 21, 2024

Comparing 3 common tools to manage screentime

Most people don’t need to go too far into their day before they’re staring into a screen. 2 out of 3 people report checking email within the first 30 minutes of waking up. When looking for solutions, there are 3 ideas that come up frequently. Muting notifications from apps, turning your phone’s display to grayscale or finally trading your smartphone for a feature-less (or dumb) phone. In this article we compare the pros and cons of each approach.

Scroll By ChoiceJanuary 19, 2024screentime, dumb phones, turn off notifications, greyscale, distraction, focus

So, you've returned to the office. How's your Digital Wellness?

Companies are normalizing at 3 days in the office. So now, not only are you spending time commuting – your phone enables you to work outside of “in-the-office” hours responding to e-mail and IMs. From the grocery line, while driving, or after putting the kids to bed. This digital debt, if unmanaged, is a sure way to burnout. And that’s bad for you and costly for your company.

Scroll By ChoiceNovember 30, 2023

How can I lower my screentime?

Should screentime be managed the same as smoking? Or are seatbelts in a car a better analogy? The digital transformation of our lives have left us checking emails more than 80 times a day and spending more time on our devices than with each other. We’re trapped in an epidemic of loneliness at home and burnout at work — and yet, the only tools we have are constraints based and limited. It’s time to think outside the box and solve the root cause not the symptoms.

Scroll By ChoiceNovember 13, 2023

Are 5-Star Ratings Harming Your Digital Wellbeing?

Rating systems provide signals about the quality of an experience or product you may be considering buying. However, these systems can also make you more susceptible to falling into endless productivity and creativity draining traps on the internet, affecting your digital wellbeing.

Scroll By ChoiceMay 15, 2023

Learning to thrive alongside technology

Becoming outraged by things we didn’t even know we cared about and being “always-on” at workplaces that tell you to take unlimited days off; we’ve paid a price in the form of contracted attention spans and decreased productivity. Abstinence centered approaches creates vicious guilt cycles which are entirely too harmful for creative productivity to thrive. What’s the path forward? The answer may be in boosting our innate human attributes.

Scroll By ChoiceMay 8, 2023