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If you have a smartphone, you’ve felt the guilt. We’ve all experienced it. We use our phones too much, and we feel enslaved. But how can we fix it? We delete apps, we try to use our phones less, but inevitably we go back to our old ways. The problem is that we never address the root problem, which is ultimately spiritual. If we want to form a new, healthy relationship with technology, we need to sever our unhealthy attachments — including to our phones. That’s what T. J. Burdick helps us do in this fine book. Through timeless spiritual practices you’ll learn how to treat your phone prudently, as a tool and not an addictive slot machine. If you want to master your tech, and not the other way around, put down your device and read this book!

— Brandon Vogt, content director at Word on Fire Ministries

If left unchecked, technology addiction can be a major source of unhappiness, a drain on personal productivity, and a potential lure to sinfulness. In Detached, T. J. Burdick provides a systematic retreat approach to help us gain control over our devices and our own behavior. Based upon timeless truths of the Faith, this twenty-one-day retreat offers a helpful framework for placing our overly wired lives back into balance and well-being.

— Lisa M. Hendey, author of The Grace of Yes

Has your life become too phony? Are you so attached to your phone that you never feel at rest without it, while you neglect the family and friends who are attached to you, and the God who gave you all life? If you would seek to change your priorities and grow in a life of genuine happiness and holiness, then set aside that glowing rectangle for just a while and let T. J. Burdick guide you on the twenty-one-day retreat within the wise, warm pages of Detached: Put Your Phone in Its Place. Replete with startling scientific findings, humorous personal anecdotes, and penetrating insights of the Church and her saints, this book will withdraw you from worldly technological addiction and direct you toward appropriate use of the wonders of technology, as you advance toward greater intimacy with God, and reorient toward the people and things that truly matter the most.

— Kevin Vost, Psy.D., author of How to Think Like Aquinas

Whether your relationship with your phone is under control or spiraling into chaos, you need this book. T. J. Burdick uses timeless wisdom and insight to steer you into a life where you are controlling your phone, not the other way around.

— Sarah Reinhard, author and blogger, SnoringScholar.com

All who desire true happiness will read Detached from T. J. Burdick. Many may be intimidated by the idea of a permanent hiatus from their phone and apps, but T. J. convincingly proves that it is possible with this thoroughly researched and shrewdly crafted approach to using phones in the right proportion and with the correct purpose.

— Shaun McAfee, author of Reform Yourself! and founder of EpicPew.com