Unplugged: Using the Twelve Steps for Cyber Addiction by Josh Grant

Have you ever wondered why you keep reaching for the screen even when you promised yourself you wouldn't?

Somehow minutes became hours after you told yourself:

• Just five more minutes
• Just one more video
• Just one more game
• I'll stop after this purchase

Before you knew what happened, hours passed and the same cycles begin again.

The problem was never the technology itself. Phones, apps, games, shopping sites, streaming platforms, and online communities are part of modern life. The problem begins when technology stops being something you use and becomes something you turn to for escape.

Unplugged: Using the Twelve Steps for Cyber Addiction is a practical recovery workbook for anyone struggling with internet addiction, social media addiction, gaming addiction, smartphone addiction, excessive screen time, online shopping addiction, or other compulsive digital behaviors.

This book does not ask you to throw away your phone, quit technology, or disappear from the connected world. Instead, it helps you understand what you may actually be reaching for beneath the screen: relief from stress, anxiety, boredom, loneliness, fear, shame, comparison, or emotional discomfort.

Using the proven principles of the Twelve Steps, Unplugged guides you through a process of self-discovery, honesty, healing, and lasting change.

Inside this workbook, you will learn how to:

• Understand the cycle of cyber addiction and technology addiction
• Identify triggers that lead to compulsive scrolling and digital escape
• Recognize the emotions behind unhealthy screen habits
• Reduce excessive social media use and endless scrolling
• Develop healthier gaming habits and online boundaries
• Address compulsive adult content behaviors
• Break cycles of online shopping and impulsive buying
• Manage cravings without relying on screens for relief
• Create healthier smartphone and internet habits
• Restore relationships affected by excessive technology use
• Build emotional awareness and healthier coping skills
• Apply the Twelve Steps to modern behavioral addiction

Unlike many digital detox books that only focus on limiting screen time, Unplugged goes deeper. It helps you understand why the pattern exists in the first place.

Real change begins when you understand the cycle and learn how to interrupt it.

This recovery workbook includes:

• A cyber addiction self-assessment
• Twelve Step exercises adapted for technology struggles
• Guided recovery worksheets
• Personal inventories
• Reflection questions and writing prompts
• Meditation and prayers
• Practical tools for reducing cravings
• Screen time management strategies
• Digital wellness exercises
• A 30-Day Digital Reset plan
• Resources for continued recovery and support
  

Whether your struggle involves your phone, social media, gaming, online shopping, streaming, adult content, endless videos, or constantly needing to check notifications, this workbook provides a path toward a healthier relationship with technology.

Recovery is not about rejecting the modern world. It is about finding freedom within it.