You Don't Have To
Do This Alone
Coaching with Michael — practical help from lived experience
Maybe you've deleted the apps a dozen times and reinstalled them a dozen times. Maybe you're up at 3am scrolling again, hating it, unable to stop. Maybe the people you love have started saying something about it, gently, and it stung because they're right.
If any of that is you — welcome. You are not weak, and you are not broken. These machines were engineered by thousands of very smart people to defeat exactly your willpower, and they are very good at their job. It was never a fair fight. The way out isn't more self-blame. It's understanding, structure, and not doing it alone.
"I used to spend way too much time on my phone and could barely get anything done. I was always wondering when I'd get a message back, and sometimes even woke up in the middle of the night to check something. It was horrible. My life was not my own."
That's me — not a client. I grew up in a Cambridgeshire vicarage, my father a priest, my mother a yogi. In November 1998, at nineteen, something happened in a candlelit room that set the course of my life, and I've been practicing and teaching meditation ever since. And still — I threw my first phone into a lake in 1999. I've buried a locked metal box in the Sedona desert to get free of my own devices. I built an online business and watched the tools I used for freedom slowly take my attention hostage.
So I went all the way into the question: why are these things so addictive, what are they replacing, and what does it actually take to come back? The answer became a method — the 4 Stages of Freedom — a free program, and a book, Entranced. I teach from my own experience of trying to change these patterns. If repeated attempts keep failing, Media Addicts Anonymous and ITAA offer free meetings every day.
My Story, In My Own Voice
Simplify Your Life, 3X Your Productivity
And Live Your Values
Your Attention
Break the checking habit at the root — not with willpower, but by de-weaponizing your devices, closing the open loops, and doing a real detox with accountability that holds.
Your Story
Underneath every media addiction is a faulty story about what you need and who you are. We expose it, and write the one that's actually true.
Your Purpose
The trance fills a hole. The lasting cure is a life that doesn't have one: meaningful work, real connection, and time for what you truly love.
Tell Me Where You Are
There's no sales call and no scheduling scramble. Fill in the short application — what's going on, what you've tried, what you want — and if I can help, I'll be in touch personally.
Not yet — try the free one-day detox
Prefer to start on your own? The whole course is free — normally $297, my gift to you.
More Of My Work
Digital Detox is one part of it. If you want the meditation, the teaching or the writing:
"May you be a fully satisfied soul who has attained everything, needs nothing and is fully successful."