Tanya has written two books on our relationship with technology: ‘OFF: Your Digital Detox for a Better Life‘ is a pocket-sized guide for all ages on switching off and enjoying a more balanced relationship with tech. ‘Stop Staring at Screens!‘ is a practical handbook for families to read together to find ways of living happily with screens at home. Tanya is currently working on her third book.
Tanya’s digital detox book ‘OFF: Your Digital Detox for a Better Life‘ is a guide to introducing some balance into our increasingly screen-dominated lives: prompts, exercises and suggestions to reclaim your life back from your phone.
“A beautifully illustrated pocket guide to small tips and tricks to step away, to log off and stop visiting the ‘drug dealer’. Tanya forced me to look honestly at my habits, and now I know how to change them.“
The Pool
“A powerful tool for anyone seeking to reclaim their life from digital distraction and automated anxiety. Do-able suggestions for how one can nudge oneself back into 3D living.“
Punkt
“An excellent, engaging little digital detox book full of common sense advice to help us reconnect with ourselves and others, and to remind us how much of our “precious and limited” time is being wasted every day attached to screens of various sorts at the expense of real–life relationships. An easy, entertaining and informative read, the book also contains many interesting facts about how new technology is reshaping our brains, for the worse, and disturbing a whole series of bodily functions. A must–read not only for parents but for all their screen–addicted offspring. Mine for one will be reading it shortly.”
Amazon UK 5* Review
“OFF is everything that is lovely about analogue. The book itself is finished to a high quality; you want to touch it, to hold it. Within, there is no preaching. The narrative points the reader in the direction of thinking about how to achieve a balance in their lives – how a life might actually be improved by logging off now and again. (Shocking, I know.) I greatly enjoyed the book and will be making some subtle changes to the role that my beloved tech plays in my life.”
Amazon UK 5* Review
“Lovely digital detox book filled with great advice, quotes and fantastic photography. Taking breaks from our 24/7 culture is so important and this little books shares practical ways to actually achieve it, even if you lead a hectic lifestyle (who doesn’t!). This is a pocket guide you actually need in your life. Everybody will be able to relate.”
Amazon UK 5* Review
“LOVED this digital detox book. I think we all have too much screen time and internet in our lives. This book is packed with loads of simple, un-menacing and easy-to-follow suggestions to help you take regular breaks from your screens and claim some of your life back!”
Emily Luxton
Tanya’s practical digital detox handbook for families ‘Stop Staring at Screens!‘ is a guide on how to cut down on rows about screens at home and develop your own family plan to live with them healthily and happily.
“This is a great little book, surpassed my expectations. It manages not to be preachy and acknowledges that most of us have this problem and gives small exercises to try and things to think about to start heading in the right direction.
It’s not unrealistic in suggesting you stop all screen usage, it rather focuses on positive relationships within the family. Not using screens when talking to each other is the first rule we have implemented, which is a small but important step in valuing each other over screens. Sharing our screen experiences is another idea that appeals to our family, enjoying our screen time without isolating ourselves.
It’s a good book to dip in and out of and it is helping us take small steps to redress the balance of screen time in our lives.”
Amazon UK 5* Review
“Simple techniques and advice to start a conversation with your family about tech boundaries – loved it!”
Amazon UK 5* Review
“An excellent read – which doesn’t surprise me as I have seen the author on TV several times recently and she always seems to have good, credible ideas about keeping tech consumption under control. I also read her last book, Off, which, like this one is beautifully and clearly presented. A book on this subject for the whole family is most welcome – thank you!”
Amazon UK 5* Review
“This book should be in every household and school. It’s got plenty of practical and positive suggestions on dealing with screen time battles and includes some lovely ideas of what to do instead..a must have !!”
Amazon UK 5* Review
“I love this book. The premise is so simple and so hard in practice. This book has given me so much practical advice to easily implement with my children.”
Amazon UK 5* Review
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