Christina Malecka is the founder of Digital Mindfulness Retreats. She hails from Seattle, a city that she has seen transform dramatically over her lifetime with the arrival of Amazon and the massive influx of the technorati. She has a psychotherapy practice rooted in her experience as a community environmental activist, which she characterizes as a “macro to micro shift to social change.” Christina has observed her clients evolve through the tech revolution, struggling with the anxiety, FOMO, and general distress that results from a toxic relationship to social media and technology.   As Max Stossel recently put it: “Social media has poured gasoline on the embers of our “not-enoughness.” Enough said.    In this episode, we discuss: How social interactions through digital platforms deprive us of the social cues like voice and body language essential to human understanding How the “always-on” expectation of social media and the tech industry causes us to live in a state of continuous stress How the experiential model of retreats is an effective approach for personal change and growth beyond therapy and self-hacking How the stress state caused by toxic engagements with technology rewire us for unhappiness and anxiety at the most basic levels How social media is designed to take maximum advantage of our ability to be manipulated by stress and reward BONUS: Christina Malecka leads us through a 10-minute meditation to move us from fight-or-flight mode into resting state   GO DEEPER  Sign up at experiencejomo.com for gentle humor, powerful insights, and actionable tools for you to find joy each and every day. Join the JOMO community and discover all the wonderful ways you can transform your life and find well-being and success.   Favorite Quotes “On social media, we’re looking for validation, and we’re not getting it in an embodied way… we go there to feel a sense of connection, but physiologically, we don’t get it.”   “If we want to be spending less time on screens, we have to have a sense of what else is important to us.”   Sponsors Hover has a domain name for whatever you’re passionate about. Get 10% off your first domain name, and start laying the groundwork for your next big idea, by visiting hover.com/jomocast.   Follow Christina Malecka:  https://www.christinamalecka.com/ https://www.digitalmindfulnessretreats.com/ Call to Action If this episode sparked some new ideas, I would love your support. Subscribe in iTunes (or wherever you listen) and write us a review. Every rating helps us attract new listeners, which helps us to keep making the show!    If you want to be empowered to experience the joy of missing out in your daily life, become a JOMO member and engage directly with Christina at www.patreon.com/experiencejomo