ABOUT

Hi, I’m Catherine.

I’m 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 has been viewed more than 5 million times.

I speak and lead workshops and retreats about fun, creativity, productivity, and screen/life balance for clients including major conferences, Fortune 500 companies, business organizations, schools, health organizations, community groups, and hotels and retreat centers, among others.

My ultimate goal is to help people scroll less and live more.

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View fullsize What makes me laugh in an “isn’t honesty refreshing?” way...⁠ ⁠ Is that “genuinely needing/wanting to have it” only accounts for 11% of phone pickups.⁠ ⁠ 🧮 If you do the math, that means that 89% of your/our phone grabs
View fullsize September Screen Time Reset: #TeacherTip⁠ ⁠ Use the EdTech Triangle to Decide When to Use Technology at School ⁠ ⁠ I love this FREE resource, which was created by the people at @everyschoolorg⁠ ⁠ Described as “the first and only research-based
View fullsize If you take away phones (and create no-phone zones📵)...⁠ ⁠ You’re going to need to provide easy ways for people to connect. ⁠ ⁠ 💡 My family likes to keep a bowl of conversation prompts on the table. You can find some online easily, but don&rs
View fullsize Allow me to invite you, 24 hours before the fact, to a Girl Power singalong party hosted by me and Laurie Santos (host of the Happiness Lab podcast). 9/28 7-10pm at the Black Squirrel club in Philly. Link for tickets is in my LinkTree. (That's me in
View fullsize Let’s explore some stats shared by the #freetheanxiousgeneration team: “Two remarkable surveys were released this past month documenting the widespread agreement and groundswell of support among educators for implementing phone-free scho
View fullsize Take your phone from TEMPTATION to TOOL. 📲 ALSO (and very importantly), I created this entire process with the intention to NOT restrict my phone use. Instead, I encourage you to ask yourself, “What do I want to pay attention to?” By
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View fullsize In my last tip, we got your family's phones out of the bedrooms at night and created a central charging station. Now, take this idea a step further by creating "no-phone" zones, where phones are not allowed. You've already established be
View fullsize Just this week, Instagram announced the launch of Teen Accounts for Instagram. This new type of account includes features designed to protect teenagers (and younger kids who aren’t supposed to be on the platform to begin with) from some of the
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View fullsize In July, the Senate passed the proposed Kids Online Safety and Privacy Act by an astonishing, bipartisan vote of 91-3. The House of Representatives is now considering the bill — and big tech is in the process of trying to water it down and bl
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