Lost in Scrolling?

3 June 2025 Real Deep Recovery

“Social media is like your own personal brand of junk food; some is just added calories.”
― Nanette L. Avery

I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that many of you may struggle with wasted time on your cell phone. Right? You don’t have to be an addict or alcoholic to have lost hours to scrolling on facebook or tiktok, playing endless games of some mindless thing like candy crush or tetris or a million other mindless other games, or maybe you are a “real gamer.” This may not be a problem for you if you maintain your regular life fairly well, but what if…

What if you have dreams of accomplishing some sought after goals, and those goals never come to be?

What if your scrolling is tied to some betting on fantasy games, or casino games, or???

What if you are using the gaming for a dopamine fix that actually is medication for depression or anxiety or ADHD?

What if hiding out on your phone or computer is a way to escape fears or anxiety or feeling like you just don’t fit in?

When is the point where we have to turn around and face ourselves and ask if scrolling and playing and looking at pictures and reels is actually an escape from life rather than life itself?

If you are getting a little uncomfortable right now, you might want to consider joining my three-day challenge.

I’m not suggesting this because this is a horrible problem…

I’m suggesting that there might be a solution that would be less painful than you imagine, and more helpful and uplifting than you thought would occur. Sometimes change is so unimaginable that we have to trick our minds into turning the corner.

That’s what happened to me when I got sober…that night I thought I had a date. Only the guy said he “had to get a slip signed” so would I mind stopping in at this meeting so he could get that done… Dirty trick. I ended up hearing a woman talk about her feelings when alcohol wasn’t working any more and that was me!! Luckily, she talked about the solution as well, and I ended up staying. Over time, I learned a bunch of coping mechanisms, found community, and in the end, a practice of mindfulness. THAT was the thing that really opened the door to change.

So now I have a program that is all about envisioning new ways to live life. Solution-focused ways that involve making choices, focusing on purpose and vision, actively selecting what works and what doesn’t, keeping accountability and creating a world that will get me (and you) moving toward a life that matters.

I call it my PEAK program.

It’s basically about moving away from the stuff that doesn’t work and is causing things to go wrong, towards things that will make stuff RIGHT.

I like peace. I hate chaos. I’m in favor of choice. If you think things like that might work for you, drop me a line. It’s entirely up to you.

Namaste.