COURSES

Struggling with screen time? Want to have more fun?

I can help. Sign up for my text message-based courses and I’ll send you a voice memo each day with an evidence-backed assignment and interactive prompts telling you exactly what you need to do (and delivered where you need help the most: on your phone).

  • Let Me Coach You Through a Phone Breakup!

    My 30-day SMS-based course will help you create a healthier relationship with your phone.

  • Take the "Find Your Fun" Course

    My 14-day SMS-based course will help you have more fun and feel more alive!

Do you and your phone need better boundaries?

Take the 30-Day Phone Breakup Course and Keep What You Love—While Eliminating What You Don’t

I’ve adapted my book, How to Break Up With Your Phone into this 30-Day Phone Breakup text message course because... where better to learn how to break up with your phone than ON YOUR PHONE!?

The course takes a proven approach that’s grounded in science. It will free you from phone obsession and empower you to have a productive—not compulsive—relationship with your phone. Sign up now, and every day you'll receive a voice message from me, delivered via text message, with a daily assignment telling you exactly what to do, plus interactive prompts to keep you on track. It’s easy and you can do it at my pace—or yours.

“Catherine Price is the Marie Kondo of brains.”

—Kevin Roose, The New York Times

You'll keep what you love about your phone, reduce or eliminate what you don’t, and make customized changes to your settings, apps, environment and mindset that will enable you to take back control of your life—both on and off your phone. So, let’s get started!

Follow the steps of the 30-day course, and you will:

  • Gain conscious control of your phone use

  • Reduce your mindless scrolling

  • Become more present and engaged with the people around you

  • Sleep better and think more clearly

  • Rebuild your attention span and enhance your creativity

  • Have a healthier relationship with your phone and other devices

  • Take back your life!

Know someone who needs to break up with their phone?

You can give this course as a gift!

Testimonials:

“I just finished the 30-day phone breakup, and it's transformed my relationship to my phone and refocused my brain far beyond what I'd even hoped."

"This course was incredibly worthwhile and I looked forward to the daily messages and ideas! I want to give this class to everyone in my family and circle."

"Probably this was the best value for the biggest self improvement out there.”


Do you feel a little dead inside?

You need to find your fun!

14 days of Practical Tips & Evidence-Backed Strategies to Help Bring You Back to Life

Do you ever feel like you’re just going through the motions, not fully engaged, lacking focus, and not completely present in the moments that matter? When's the last time you had fun?

This 14-day interactive, text-message course, based on my book The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again, is designed to help you Find Your Fun, so that you can rediscover what makes you feel the most alive. And as an added benefit, you’ll become happier, healthier, more productive and creative, and less stressed, too.

Each day, you'll receive a text message with an audio message from me in which I describe the day's assignment, plus resources and interactive prompts to keep you on track. Sign up now, and in two weeks, you'll be well on your way to a more fun-filled life.

Know someone else who could use more fun? Give the course as a gift, and do it together!

In 14 Days, You Will:

  • Understand the factors and ingredients that create True Fun.

  • Identify your unique “fun magnets” and create a plan to break out of ruts.

  • Learn how to use my SPARK framework to attract fun and make it more likely to occur in your life.

  • Understand the difference between “true” and “fake” fun, so that you can spend your time on things that help you flourish.


Testimonials:

“It’s been illuminating, motivating and has helped me move to the next level in my well-being journey. I had been focused on connection and delights and gratefulness but this was the piece of the puzzle I needed next. Thank you!”

“This course lifted my spirit, confirming the fun I already have in my life and helping me realize it doesn’t have to go away ever. It is just waiting to be found!”

“This course is transformative for well-being in a very accessible and motivating way.”

“I feel like it has unlocked a door that I’ve been keeping shut in my head.”

“I loved this course and the format of how it was presented. Thank you for enriching my life with more fun and for teaching me how to share this process with others, so I can spread the joy.”

Meet Your Coach

I’m Catherine Price, an award-winning health and science journalist, speaker, founder of Screen/Life Balance, and bestselling author of books including How to Break Up With Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life, The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again, and Vitamania: How Vitamins Revolutionized the Way We Think About Food. My journalistic work has been featured in publications including The Best American Science Writing, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, and Popular Science, and my TED talk on fun was the 2nd most viewed for all of 2022.

I created the Phone Breakup Challenge to help people, including myself, create healthier relationships with their devices and get back to what really matters to them. Breaking up with my own phone has changed my own life for the better, and I’m confident it will do the same for you.

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Catherine Price is the Marie Kondo of brains

— Kevin Roose, The New York Times

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