Lisa Snowdon

The model and TV presenter on how she swapped her phone addiction for forest bathing and board games!

- LAUREN TAYLOR

TV presenter Lisa Snowdon says she felt 'out of control' and 'massively overemotional' when she experienced burnout at the end of last year.

'I had too many tabs open on my brain,' says the 53-year-old, a regular on ITV's This Morning. 'Everything got on top of me, I was trying to do too much and saying yes to too many things. I wasn't listening to my body. I felt overemotional, burnt out.'

The changing season, the buildup to Christmas and the end of the year made her feel 'you've just got to push, push, push – and I didn't have any push left'.

Going on a 10-day digital detox retreat in Majorca helped to break the cycle – and face her reliance on her phone. 'It was really quite tricky for a few days, then totally liberating.

'It's almost like a constant battle,' she says of her relationship with her phone. 'Somebody will email me, I'll then check all my other apps and things like that. It's a sort of addiction.

'I needed to leave the country, I needed to give my phone to somebody or lock it in a safe in a resort somewhere.