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Zoe Sugg Promotes New Campaign, Digital Detox Day

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Zoe Sugg, the UK YouTuber, and Vlogger, better known as Zoella, has recently partnered with the organization “I am Whole” to campaign for a Digital Detox Day. Zoe recently posted a video to social media with “I am Whole” co-founder, Jordan Stephens with a surprise collaboration that fans were not expecting and that Sugg admits has been in the works pre-COVID.

The video showcases the pair talking about how excessive use of our phones and social media can take a major strain on one’s mental health, as people often feel uncomfortable or anxious when leaving their phones at home. Sugg and Stephens explain how without set boundaries, electronics can take over our day to day lives. They are also very careful to reassure fans that social media and electronics are not evil, however, we need to make sure they are not in control of our lives. They have come together to start a campaign entitled, Digital Detox Day.

 

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I’m super excited to finally be able to share the campaign we’ve been working on for SOOO long! I present to you : DIGITAL DETOX DAY! With both #Lush & @iamwholeuk (@jordanfstephens) we’ve created this campaign around how social media can affect our mental health and negatively impact our lives. The world of social media has many benefits, but over the years, it’s become more and more an extension of our hands and minds & we can find ourselves endlessly scrolling, comparing, judging, being cyber bullied, not setting boundaries and not knowing when to switch off. It can be the cause of anxiety, depression, sleeplessness, loneliness and low self esteem and over the years I’ve had thousands of messages from you all, including other creators who are struggling with how social media makes them feel, so this felt like the perfect campaign to put together. Over the next week, we’ll be sharing content here and over on @iamwholeuk on many of the topics linked with mental health and the digital world with some incredible panelists and fellow creators, friends and even my therapist! On Saturday 5th September we’ll be asking anyone and everyone (that’s you reading this) to switch off for mental health. A whole digital detox day where we put our devices down and re-connect and re-evaluate how social media makes us feel. We hope this week of content helps those of you who need it and ultimately we hope we can encourage you to find a way to have a better relationship with your device and improve your mental wellbeing. I’ve also worked closely with Lush to create a limited edition bath bomb “IRL” with money going into a one-off fund taking applications for grants from small, grassroots groups who work on mental health issues. Those are available in store and online NOW! (There will be a making of going live tomorrow). #digitaldetoxday 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

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The Digital Detox Day campaign is also sponsored by the popular bath and beauty brand, Lush. Zoe Sugg has worked with Lush to design and create her new bath bomb that is raising funds for mental health charities and is currently available at Lush.

The campaign encourages people to take a break from our phones, or as they call it, a digital detox day. Sugg and Stephens encouraged people on September 5 to take to social media and post a picture with the hashtag, #DigitalDetoxDay, and then sign off on social media for the entire day.

So join Zoe Sugg with Lush and Jordan Stephens with I am Whole to come together on September 5, for Digital Detox Day.