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“Breaking up with your phone means giving yourself the space, freedom, and tools necessary to create a new, long-term relationship with it, one that keeps what you love about your phone and gets rid of what you don’t.”

How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life by Catherine Price

April 13, 2022 by cheerbrarian 7 Comments

In one word: Transformative I was a late adopter of the smartphone, someone who said that they didn’t need or want “all of that” on their phone. In 2010 I started a new job and at the end of my first meeting at my new gig, everyone pulled out their phones to plan the next meeting and I realized I was the only person who was going to have to go back to my office to consult a calendar. I saw then that I “needed” […]

Filed Under: Health, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Catherine Price, dangers of technology, How to Break Up with Your Phone, Mental Health, personal development, Self-help, social media

cheerbrarian's CBR14 Review No:13 · Genres: Health, Non-Fiction · Tags: Catherine Price, dangers of technology, How to Break Up with Your Phone, Mental Health, personal development, Self-help, social media ·
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I just need to focus on me right now

March 2, 2018 by Dusty Highway 2 Comments

Over the last three months, I’ve been trying to get my life in order, throwing out the things I don’t want/like/need, part middle-aged decluttering and part long-term strategy to go on offense against depression. I’ve already given up alcohol, caffeine, and sweets. My next target: mindless phone use. So when Lollygagger mentioned How to Break Up with Your Phone in a Pajiba comment, I knew it was going to the top of my BUY IT NOW list. She reviewed it here on CBR the day […]

Filed Under: Health, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #CBR10, Catherine Price, How to Break Up with Your Phone, Psychology, Self-help

Dusty Highway's CBR10 Review No:10 · Genres: Health, Non-Fiction · Tags: #CBR10, Catherine Price, How to Break Up with Your Phone, Psychology, Self-help ·
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