“Never sleep with your phone,” says expert on Oprah Winfrey’s show

Expert Mel Robbins explained on Winfrey’s podcast why sleeping with a phone can cause anxiety.

Expert Mel Robbins recently appeared on Oprah Winfrey’s podcast, where she explained that one should never sleep with their phone. She explained how sleeping with the phone can cause anxiety and advised to keep it in the bathroom instead.

Mel Robbins suggests never sleeping with the phone.

During Mel Robbins’s appearance on Oprah Winfrey’s show, The Oprah Podcast, the author and expert on behavioural change spoke about the importance of not sleeping with the phone. She advised people to ‘never, ever sleep with your phone,’ instead put it in the bathroom.

Mel Robbins explains why sleeping with the phone is not recommended.

She told Oprah, “I’m not even going to talk about all the studies about how the phone in the room next to you interrupts your sleep. I’m going to talk about something that happens when you wake up.” She explained that keeping a phone next to you while sleeping is detrimental to your mental health and peace of mind. “So, the phone’s next to you, right? You’re lying in bed. The alarm goes off, and you pick up the phone. Here you are. You aren’t even vertical yet, and you have just allowed the world news and a thousand strangers on Instagram to walk into your bedroom. You’re checking emails and text messages, and you wonder why you’re stressed out and exhausted. You’re not even out of bed, and you have put all this other stuff in your brain, which means you are now the last thing on the list.”

Mel also explained, “Anxiety is higher for people in the morning. If you grew up in a traumatic household or experienced abuse, poverty, bigotry, or racism when you were little, you had a chaotic experience. If you’re waking up in the morning and the first thing you experience is anxiety, it is a sign of stored trauma. That’s why a lot of people have anxiety first thing in the morning. It’s stored trauma.”