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Gatekeeping Your Peace

Gatekeeping Your Peace

When it comes to reducing cell phone use, we’ve all heard the advice. Turn off notifications. Unfollow and unfriend. But this advice? It’s stale. Shallow, even, because it does little to *actually* reduce time spent on screens.

We often discuss gatekeeping our homes and the responsibility that comes with deciding what gets granted admittance. On today’s show we identify what it means to be the gatekeeper of our peace by once and for all getting intentional with our tech.

 

Here’s a preview:

[10:30] Enter white space: How to incrementally extend the length of time between your cell phone checks

[12:30] Has the work-from-home movement ballooned our use of tech?

[18:30] Here’s the stuff you really, really should be deleting from your phone

[22:00] The one phone-related step you can take to improve your focus, well-being, and relationships

[26:00] Are you a phubber?

 

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When it comes to reducing cell phone use, we've all heard the advice. Turn off notifications. Unfollow and unfriend. But this advice? It's stale. Shallow, even, because it does little to *actually* reduce time spent on screens. Minimalists often discuss gatekeeping our homes and the responsibility that comes with deciding what gets granted admittance. On this episode of the Sustainable Minimalists podcast: identifying what it means to be the gatekeeper of our peace by once and for all getting intentional with our tech.

 

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We've come a long way. But not necessarily in the right direction.

From the the nostalgic days of AOL Instant Messenger to 2026's high-stakes, algorithmic landscape, constant connectivity has fundamentally shifted our attention spans, our peace of mind, and the way we show up for our families.

Worse, the desire to show up online often takes us directly out of real life. It's no surprise, then, that we're feeling the mental and emotional weight of the "scroll".

We don't have to throw our phones in a lake to find the reprieve we desperately need. On today's show author Emily Feldpausch argues that it isn’t about rejecting technology. It’s about reclaiming the intentionality that the algorithms try to take away.

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[5:00] Reflections on the shift from the early days of AIM and MySpace to the current user experience that often feels designed against us

[8:45] How being always on has eroded our collective sense of peace and altered the dynamics of modern family life

[18:00] How to stop checking in and start being present

[23:00] A candid look at 2026 internet culture, from shopping hauls to harmful beauty standards. Can we still find corners of the web that align with our true values?

[27:00] Emily's personal strategies for maintaining phone boundaries to protect her mental space

 

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