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How to Break Up With Your Phone

The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life

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How to Break Up With Your Phone

By: Catherine Price
Narrated by: Rosie Jones
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 Is your phone the first thing you reach for when you wake up? And the last thing you see before you sleep? Do you find the hours slip away as you idly scroll through your social media timeline?

In short, are you addicted to your phone?

If so, How to Break Up with Your Phone is here to help.

How to Break Up With Your Phone is a smart, practical and useful plan to help you conquer your mobile phone addiction in just 30 days - and take back your life in the process.

Recent studies have shown that spending extended time on our phones affects our ability to form new memories, think deeply, focus and absorb information, and the hormones triggered every time we hear our phones buzz both add to our stress levels and are the hallmark signs of addiction. In How to Break Up with Your Phone, award-winning science journalist Catherine Price explores the effects that our constant connectivity is having on our brains, bodies, relationships, and society at large and asks, how much time do you really want to spend on your phone?

Over the course of 30 days, Catherine will guide you through an easy-to-follow plan that enables you to identify your goals, priorities and bad habits, tidy your apps, prune your email, and take time away. Lastly, you will create a new, healthier relationship with your phone and establish habits and routines to ensure this new relationship sticks.

You don't have to give up your phone forever; instead you will be more mindful not only of how you use your phone, but also about how you choose to spend the precious moments of your life.
Read by Rosie Jones
(p) Orion Publishing Group 2018©2017 Catherine Price Communication & Social Skills Compulsive Disorders Mental Health Personal Development Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Spirituality Time Management Meditation Memory Improvement Health Habits

Critic reviews

The most important book I've read in years. Everyone I know needs it now. Life changing.
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.
By the time I was halfway through following Price's system, I was a convert (Caroline Crampton)
Entertaining (and also terrifying)... this is a book that should be available on the NHS
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 do just that.
Fascinating, entertaining and extremely timely. Your phone is an abusive partner - get rid now.
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.)
. . .a comprehensive, step-by-step solution to spending less time with your phone and more time doing the things you love.
This book should be number one! (CHRIS EVANS)
All stars
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Very engaging and informative, I have recommended to everyone I know who will listen

Fantastic

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Brilliant book ironically I listened to it on my phone ha but I did then purchase a hard copy as I feel it will be easier to follow the process having it written down in front of you. I’ll highly recommend if you want to be free from the rubbish that our phones show us each day and draw us in because time is precious.

Get precious time back !

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At the beginning of this book, I discovered that my mobile screen time was 32 hours a week average. I nearly cried!

Since then, my weekly screen time is down to 15h a week! I’m basically on 2 hours a day now and that’s mostly just tools like google maps, internet browser and SMS messages and calls.

I am experiencing moments of stillness without reaching for Instagram. I eat my breakfast just looking into the garden at the birds, I can watch a whole film without looking at my phone and pausing it and most importantly, I’m actually spending my time how I want to, not just using it up on my phone! I’m so happy that I’ve finally done this and will encourage everyone I know to use this book!

Changed my life

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This book will allow you to start reclaiming two of the most precious things that are being stolen from us by the relationship we have with our smartphone; attention and time. I was drawn to the book as I see the toxic effect of "trained distraction" effecting individual and organisational performance at every company I'm consulting for. You only have to look around in any public environment to witness the growing addiction to the smartphone (now so ubiquitous its almost become another organ to the human body). The habitual use constantly feeding a stimuli/response neurological cycle that is tearing their awareness away from the present moment and eroding the ability to focus, concentrate and enter deep thought. The audio narration is excellent and is as engaging as the material. Catherine Price has written an important book on a subject that is at the heart what the nature of human experience means in an increasingly digital world.

Essential Reading - a digital antidote

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I really enjoyed it. I think having the paper version would make it easier to do the exercises though.

Full of interesting (and worrying) stats

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