How to Break Up with Your Phone, Revised Edition: The 30-Day Digital Detox Plan

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? Do you say you want to spend less time mindlessly scrolling, but have no idea how to do so? 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 screen-life balance and a long-term relationship with technology that feels good.

Now fully revised and updated, this easy-to-use guide begins by showing you how our smartphones and apps are designed to be addictive and how the time we spend on them is 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 user-friendly 30-day plan that has already helped thousands of people 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, this is the ultimate guide to digital detoxing. With over 100,000 copies sold and thousands of fans worldwide, it’s guaranteed to help you put down your phone—and come back to life.