Do A Digital Detox
Choose the kind of help that fits where you are: understand your use, try one day offline, take a longer break, follow the course, or join a meeting.
Free written guide and complete course
Would You Like to Do a Digital Detox?
Start with the Digital Detox Experience. It helps you see how technology is affecting your life, plan a break that fits your needs and decide how you will use technology afterwards.
The Experience is part of the complete free course. The course adds Michael’s audio lessons and exercises.
Find out if you have a problem with technology
Twelve questions about your own week. Tap Yes for each sign that applies.
Take one day off your devices
Use the free Playbook to decide what goes off, what stays available and what you will do instead.
One day
Take a longer digital detox
How to plan a detox that lasts longer than a day, what to arrange before you start, and what to expect once you do.
A week or more
The whole programme · 40 sessions
The full course, free
Forty guided audio sessions in Michael’s own voice — about fifteen hours, and the programme that normally sells for $297. Four parts: what went wrong with technology, an honest look at your own use, twenty sessions that walk you through the detox itself, and the inner work that stops it coming back. Every session is open from the start; you do not have to finish one to reach the next.
Normally $297 · yours free
Join a free meeting with other people
Online meetings run every day. Twelve-step groups for phone, internet and media addiction, and what happens when you turn up to one.
Ongoing, free
Self-Assessment
How Much Is Too Much?
Twelve questions about your own week. Tap Yes for each sign that applies.
12 Signs Of Phone Addiction
Twelve questions about the phone itself. Written by someone who answered yes to all twelve.
12 Signs You Need A Digital Detox
Twelve signs across every screen, not only the phone — and what your count means.
Measure How Much Technology You Actually Use
Track three days of phone, computer, television and other screen use, then see exactly where your time goes.
Short Detoxes
The Digital Detox Playbook
Plan what to stop, what must remain available, what to do offline and who can help you keep the break.
My 21-Day Digital Detox Ended On Day 12
The original 2018 record: what Michael planned, where he checked, what the break exposed and why the experiment ended early.
How To Do A Digital Detox
The complete guide — why most fail and the 5 steps that work.
How To Do An Awesome Digital Detox
Anyone can put their phone in a drawer for a weekend. The reason most digital detoxes fail is not willpower — it is that nothing was put in the space where the screen used to be.
How To Do A Social Media Detox (Without Deleting Your Life)
You don't have to vanish, delete every account and move to a cabin. You have to change who is in charge.
How Long Should A Digital Detox Last?
Compare a one-day test, a week, two weeks and longer breaks. The evidence does not support one magic duration.
Benefits Of A Digital Detox
What changed for Michael, what two controlled studies found and what a short break cannot promise.
The Full Course
The Free Digital Detox Course — Four Parts, Forty Sessions
Experience freedom, clarity, joy, peace of mind and time to do what you truly love.
Part 1: The Wake Up Call
You can't walk out of a trap you can't see. Part 1 is about seeing it clearly — how the machine works, who built it, and what it has been quietly taking.
Part 2: Measure Your Technology Use
Measure your normal use and notice how you feel before, during and after it.
Part 3: The Detox — Twenty Guided Sessions
This is the program itself — normally $297, yours free. Twenty sessions in three phases: the set up, the experience, and go.
Part 4: The Inner Game
A detox that ends is a holiday. What makes it last is the inner game: understanding what you were really reaching for, and building a story — and a relationship with technology — that actually satisfies.
Groups & Meetings
Where to next