About the Author
Catherine Price is an American author and science journalist. Price is also a speaker and consultant. She has given talks and workshops on digital well-being and mindfulness in a variety of settings, including schools, businesses, and non-profit organizations.
Summary
How to Break Up with Your Phone is a book written by Catherine Price. It provides practical tips and strategies to help readers reduce their dependence on smartphones and improve their overall well-being. The book tells you the ways in which smartphones can be addictive and how excessive phone use can negatively impact mental and physical health.
The author emphasizes the importance of being mindful and intentional about phone usage, and provides a 30-day plan to help readers gradually break their phone addiction. This plan involves gradually reducing phone usage, establishing new habits and routines, and finding alternative activities to fill the time once spent on the phone.
The effects of phone use on sleep, relationships, productivity, and creativity are raised. It also provides tips for addressing these issues. Price stresses on the importance of setting boundaries around phone usage and making intentional choices about when and how to use the phone.
The book encourages readers to be more mindful about their phone usage and to develop healthier habits and routines that prioritize human connection, creativity, and self-care.
Review
Neither I nor Catherine Price are trying to convince you that a happy existence isn’t possible with a smartphone. The headline “How to Re-establish Power In Your Relationship With Your Phone” might have been more appropriate (albeit less catchy).
As long as individuals are using their phones for the purposes they intended, Price has no issue with it.
