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.
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.
On sale: February 13, 2018
Page count: 192 Pages
ISBN: 9780399581120
Catherine Price is an author, speaker, consultant, and health and science journalist. Her work has appeared in a multitude of publications including
The New York Times,
The Washington Post, and
Popular Science, and she also runs the newsletter-turned-podcast
How to Feel Alive. Her speaking engagements include TED, the Aspen Ideas Festival, and SXSW. Catherine is also the author of
Vitamania,
Mindfulness: A Journal,
The Big Sur Bakery Cookbook, and
The Power of Fun.
"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
"A comprehensive, step-by-step solution to spending less time with your phone and more time doing the things you love."
—Booklist
"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 Your Life and adjunct lecturer in the Product Design Program, Stanford University"Price's book is an invaluable guide of how--in the author's own words—to turn your phone back into a tool, not a temptation. In these dopamine-drenched days of the smartphone era, hours can be lost to the mindless scroll. Price's easily digestible tome is practical, not preachy, and a must-have for even the worst phubber."
—Pandora Sykes, journalist and former Fashion Features Editor at The Sunday Times Style"Fascinating, entertaining and extremely timely. Your phone is an abusive partner—get rid now."
—Will Storr, author of Selfie
