Stories from the other rooms
Letters from people who took the pledge and found it helpful.
"I haven't seen the glow of a screen in my bedroom for six months. My dreams are more vivid, and my mornings are actually mine again."
— Sarah J., London
"Leaving my phone at the door felt like losing a limb for three days. On the fourth day, I finally heard the birds in the yard."
— Marcus T., Bristol
"My kids stopped asking me to look up from my phone — because there was no phone at the table. They just started telling me things again."
— Priya R., Manchester
"I read four books in the month I tried it. The last time I read four books in a month I was twelve."
— Daniel A., Cardiff
"I thought I'd feel disconnected. I felt found. The phone was the disconnection."
— Margot K., Glasgow
"My husband and I started taking walks again after dinner. We've been married eleven years and somehow forgot we used to do that."
— Hannah O., Edinburgh
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