When Distraction Replaces Regulation

So often what we reach for to feel safe can really pull us away from ourselves.

In this clip, Mark Groves reframes codependency not as a relationship problem, but as a pattern of sourcing safety outside of ourselves. That pattern can show up with people, and it can also drive our behaviors.

Scrolling. Checking. Distracting instead of regulating.

Mark points out how technology is especially skilled at targeting the internal places where we still prioritize approval, soothing, or certainty over sovereignty. Social media algorithms don’t create those wounds; they simply reveal them.

Seen this way, triggers stop being something to avoid at all costs. They become information, and therefore opportunities to build mastery rather than self-abandonment.

From The Psychedelic Podcast #335 with Mark Groves.
Full episode: https://youtu.be/v7KF13goLIA

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