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Now fully revised and updated, this evidence-based, user-friendly guide presents a 30-day digital detox plan that will help you set boundaries with your phone and live a more joyful and fulfilling life.
"I wrote The Anxious Generation to help adults improve the lives of children. Many readers have asked me for a version of the book aimed at helping adults and teens help themselves. Catherine Price has written the best such book."-Jonathan Haidt
Do you feel addicted to your phone? Do you frequently pick it up "just to check," only to look up forty-five minutes later wondering where the time has gone? Does social media make you anxious? Have you tried to spend less time mindlessly scrolling-and failed? If so, this book is your solution.
Award-winning health and science journalist and TED speaker Catherine Price presents a practical, evidence-based 30-day digital detox plan that will help you break up-and then make up-with your phone. The goal: better mental health, improved screen-life balance, and a long-term relationship with technology that feels good.
Now fully revised and updated, this engaging, user-friendly guide explains how our smartphones and apps are designed to be addictive and how the time we spend on them is increasing our anxiety and damaging our abilities to focus, think deeply, form new memories, generate ideas, and be present in our most important relationships. Next, it walks you through an effective and easy-to-follow 30-day plan that has already helped thousands of people worldwide break their phone addictions and feel more fully alive.
Whether you need help for yourself or for your family, friends, students, colleagues, clients, or community, How to Break Up with Your Phone is the ultimate guide to digital detoxing. It's guaranteed to help you put down your phone-and come back to life. "I wrote The Anxious Generation to help adults improve the lives of children. Many readers have asked me for a version of the book aimed at helping adults and teens help themselves. Catherine Price has written the best such book. How to Break Up with Your Phone is deeply researched, yet playful. It is hard hitting but will touch your heart gently. Above all, it will help you regain your attention, your time, and your life in just thirty days. If you are a human being and you own a smartphone, you need this book."-Jonathan Haidt, Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, New York University–Stern School of Business, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Anxious Generation
"The Marie Kondo of brains . . . for the first time in a long time, I'm starting to feel like a human again."-Kevin Roose, The New York Times
"A slim, insight-packed volume that's both a primer on the toll smartphone overuse can take on our mental and physical health, and a practical manual for a 30-day reset designed to put you on a path to moderation, this is a book whose message couldn't feel more timely, or more urgent. (No, really: after finishing the whole thing in one horrified sitting, I immediately pre-ordered 3 more copies for friends and family.)"-Sarah Karnasiewicz, Health
"Price dissects the way her phone has impacted her personal and professional lives, and gives practical advice on how to forge a healthier relationship with technology-without the fear mongering."-Refinery29
"The most important book I've read in years. Life-changing."-Sali Hughes, The Pool
"Could be one of the most important books to be published in recent times."-9Honey
"To design a more joyful life includes reframing some of our old perceptions and habits. Almost no single thing in modern life deserves a reframe more than the smartphone. In How To Break Up with Your Phone, Price offers an accessible and clever way to accomplish that reframe and discover more time and energy for a better life."-Dave Evans, coauthor of Designing Yo
"I wrote The Anxious Generation to help adults improve the lives of children. Many readers have asked me for a version of the book aimed at helping adults and teens help themselves. Catherine Price has written the best such book."-Jonathan Haidt
Do you feel addicted to your phone? Do you frequently pick it up "just to check," only to look up forty-five minutes later wondering where the time has gone? Does social media make you anxious? Have you tried to spend less time mindlessly scrolling-and failed? If so, this book is your solution.
Award-winning health and science journalist and TED speaker Catherine Price presents a practical, evidence-based 30-day digital detox plan that will help you break up-and then make up-with your phone. The goal: better mental health, improved screen-life balance, and a long-term relationship with technology that feels good.
Now fully revised and updated, this engaging, user-friendly guide explains how our smartphones and apps are designed to be addictive and how the time we spend on them is increasing our anxiety and damaging our abilities to focus, think deeply, form new memories, generate ideas, and be present in our most important relationships. Next, it walks you through an effective and easy-to-follow 30-day plan that has already helped thousands of people worldwide break their phone addictions and feel more fully alive.
Whether you need help for yourself or for your family, friends, students, colleagues, clients, or community, How to Break Up with Your Phone is the ultimate guide to digital detoxing. It's guaranteed to help you put down your phone-and come back to life. "I wrote The Anxious Generation to help adults improve the lives of children. Many readers have asked me for a version of the book aimed at helping adults and teens help themselves. Catherine Price has written the best such book. How to Break Up with Your Phone is deeply researched, yet playful. It is hard hitting but will touch your heart gently. Above all, it will help you regain your attention, your time, and your life in just thirty days. If you are a human being and you own a smartphone, you need this book."-Jonathan Haidt, Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, New York University–Stern School of Business, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Anxious Generation
"The Marie Kondo of brains . . . for the first time in a long time, I'm starting to feel like a human again."-Kevin Roose, The New York Times
"A slim, insight-packed volume that's both a primer on the toll smartphone overuse can take on our mental and physical health, and a practical manual for a 30-day reset designed to put you on a path to moderation, this is a book whose message couldn't feel more timely, or more urgent. (No, really: after finishing the whole thing in one horrified sitting, I immediately pre-ordered 3 more copies for friends and family.)"-Sarah Karnasiewicz, Health
"Price dissects the way her phone has impacted her personal and professional lives, and gives practical advice on how to forge a healthier relationship with technology-without the fear mongering."-Refinery29
"The most important book I've read in years. Life-changing."-Sali Hughes, The Pool
"Could be one of the most important books to be published in recent times."-9Honey
"To design a more joyful life includes reframing some of our old perceptions and habits. Almost no single thing in modern life deserves a reframe more than the smartphone. In How To Break Up with Your Phone, Price offers an accessible and clever way to accomplish that reframe and discover more time and energy for a better life."-Dave Evans, coauthor of Designing Yo