We have willingly been mentally restrained by technology, daily gifting our captors the mental cuffs to keep us psychologically bound. Haven’t you realized this yet? Then they already have you. While this may seem like an intriguing sci-fi movie, it is the reality of our current digital overwhelm. To break these invisible chains, we must prioritize intentional self-care and commit to nurturing selfhood in the digital age. Only by reclaiming our attention can we move from being mere data points back to being the conscious architects of our own lives.

To discover the necessary process of nurturing selfhood in the digital age, Harvesting Happiness Podcast host Lisa Cypers Kamen welcomes cultural analyst, researcher, speaker, and author Patricia Martin.

Patricia explores the new frontier of intermittent reinforcement that jams the human operating system, and how her book, Will the Future Like You? Reflections on the Age of Hyper-reinvention, can help people prepare for what’s coming next and reclaim autonomy in an AI-driven world.

Patricia Martin—Self-Care in Digital Overwhelm:

• How big tech manipulates online identities and weaponizes data. {2:34}
• Nurturing selfhood in the digital age. {15:36}
• Self-care and digital overwhelm require wading through our darkness. {22:00}
• When ads and algorithms hijack your sense of self. {34:21}
• Creating content for the greater good, like an identity and technology podcast. {37:11}

Meet Our Guest:

Patricia Martin, MFA, is a cultural analyst, researcher, and speaker whose work explores how we make meaning in a rapidly changing world. She’s the author of four books, including the soon-to-be-released Will the Future Like You? Reflections on the Age of Hyper-reinvention. Patricia holds an MFA in nonfiction from Bennington College, along with postgraduate certifications in medical narrative from Duke University and in Jungian theory from the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago, where she also teaches writing. Patricia is the host of the psychology podcast Jung in the World.

“What we are doing on the internet is being weaponized against us.” — Lisa Cypers Kamen

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