Christie Walsh with Real Battle Ministries

Christie Walsh is the Director of Development for Real Battle Ministries. She has a B.A. in Economics from the University of California at San Diego. As a Management Analyst for one of the largest healthcare providers in Southern California, she found great satisfaction from finding solutions to gaps in healthcare delivery. This ultimately prepared her for her life’s greatest challenge, parenting! While raising three children, each a year apart in school and who are now all in college, her family experienced significant negative effects from digital media overuse. Observing the dysfunction and the destructive behavior from technology overuse, she realized she had to proactively get help for her family, only to find an enormous gap in services. There were books to read, apps to install on computers and devices, but very few specialists to guide people through a process of resolving the problem and preventing more serious problems. Dr. Andrew Doan’s book, “Hooked on Games”, was instrumental in connecting the neurochemistry processes stimulated by digital media with destructive, self-limiting behaviors. Consulting with specialists and thought leaders in this new and burgeoning field provided the tools to convince her family to limit digital media use. While spending 10 years dedicated to studying the issue and finding solutions for her family, she realized this is an issue that is affecting the best and brightest of our youth, is a worldwide phenomenon, spans every age group and must be made known. She co-authored the "Digital Vortex Survival Guide: Behaviors, Digital Media, & the Brain".