Dr. Jameca CooperForensic Psychology Consultant, Emergence Psychological Services · Board Certified Counseling Psychologist and Forensic Psychology Consultant

Time to prioritize peace over pings 📴 #newyear #newyearresolution #newyearnewyou #2025resolutions

7 Jan 2025 · 0 min

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In this brief New Year’s‑resolution style video, Dr. Jameca Cooper addresses psychologists and urges them to reclaim mental peace by disabling phone notifications, especially text alerts. She recommends starting with the most intrusive notifications, checking the phone only at set intervals (e.g., every 30 minutes or hourly), and relying on phone calls for genuine emergencies. The overall message is that constant alerts are unnecessary and harmful to focus, and a disciplined, limited‑check routine can restore calm while still ensuring critical communication.

My one New Year's resolution suggestion for you as a psychologist is to shut down those phone notifications. Start with the big ones first, like text messages, because guess what? You don't need to know everything right when they send it. You can go back and check your phone. You can check every 30 minutes, every hour, because people that need to get in contact with you if it's an emergency, guess what they're gonna do? They gonna call you.