A Month of Control     

What’s the first thing you touch in the morning and the last thing you see before you drop off to sleep? For far too many of us, the answer is our phones. Five women said “Enough!” and actively took steps to disconnect from their device and reconnect with what matters

Researcher and author Catherine Price remembers when it hit her: She was feeding her baby, and while her baby was looking into her eyes, Catherine was looking at her phone’s screen. She knew then that something had to change.

She started thinking seriously about the ways we interact with technology.

“I realized that if you add up the hours that we spend each day interacting with our phones, tablets, laptops, and desktops, many of us are spending the majority of our waking lives staring at a screen,” she says. “Sure, much of this screen time is useful or necessary. But there are a lot of other times when our screens distract us from things that are truly important to us — whether it’s the people we love or the activities that bring us meaning and joy.”