Media Rehab

Each day, our senses and our minds are steeped in a dense soup of digital and analogue media that shapes how we feel, what we think, and how we show up in the world.

From morning notifications to evening binges, a highly individual blend of media has become as essential to our daily lives as the food we eat. Yet unlike our growing awareness of physical nutrition, we rarely pause to examine how our media consumption is impacting us, inside and out.

But consider this
01Media has an outsized hold and influence over our time, minds, and brains through the sheer volume of our daily consumption
02Vast parts of the media ecosystem are built on business models and delivery systems in service of profits, not our wellbeing
03The incoming, generative AI-driven media cycle is exacerbating present social & cultural challenges around our shared reality, attention, and emotions

The calls to improve our diets have grown louder and more urgent — however, they are often limited to diagnosis without guidance, static to-do lists, or focused on a category of platform and/or device detached from the reality of blended consumption.

Media Rehab takes a different approach: an experiential, structured programme that will help you systematically take your diet apart, scrutinise it with curiosity (and without judgement), and rebuild it to work for, rather than against, you.

Over 21 days, you'll be conducting an experiment in which your mind is your lab and the contents of your daily media soup your materials.

Together, we will examine
Feelings
  • Your diet's impact on your emotions & actions
Soups
  • The components of your diet & how they are (or aren't) serving you
Rhythms
  • Your consumption habits & how they align with your daily rhythms

Using a combination of guided observation and reflection, you will build an understanding of the difference between consumption that nourishes and that which depletes you.

In turn, you'll make commitments around what to keep, what to reduce, and what to move towards.

Here's what past participants have to say about it:
"No shame. No moralizing. No 'delete all your apps' extremism. Instead, Media Rehab asks you to simply observe your media habits — and notice how they actually make you feel. I participated earlier this year, and it meaningfully shifted my habits — especially the constant context switching that was quietly destroying my focus."
"After Media Rehab, I feel a lot better. It helped me relax. I found the kind of media that I think is going to be healthier for me. It's going to keep me from being anxious about everything. And it was really fun!"
"I highly highly highly recommend it to anyone interested in building media resilience. I was always aware of my media habits on a surface level, but Media Rehab helped me to understand them at a deeper level."
"For a long time I've seesawed between wanting to stay aware of what's going on in the world but then being driven away after too much doomscrolling. This programme really gave me the language to differentiate between which media sources were helping and which were harming me."
"If you don't want to hire 'cognitive security agents' like Grimes, are tired of being bombarded by ragebait, and want to cultivate a healthier relationship with media — check out the thoughtfully designed, ingenious Media Rehab."
"More fun and longer lasting impact than Dry January…"
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Our focus

Rather than devices, apps, or platforms, Media Rehab focuses on the contents of your media: the stories, narratives, and ideas that enter your mind through your senses and shape your thoughts, beliefs, and sense of self.

We won't instruct you on what to read, watch, listen to, or who/what to follow. Instead, we provide frameworks that help you discover what works for you — and what doesn't.

The format

3 connected protocols — Feelings, Soups & Rhythms — providing different lenses through which to observe your current diet.

21 days in total — 5 per protocol, bookended by a baseline audit and a day of integration.

No changes to your media diet are required throughout the programme.

Benefits

Cognitive & emotional wellbeing: a quieter mind, calmer nervous system & clearer thoughts

Agency over what & when you consume; your diet will serve you, not media creators or platforms that disregard your wellbeing

Stronger filters for navigating current & future media cycles, recognising malnutritious media to minimise or avoid