Kari Johnson

“The point is that many of the same feel-good brain chemicals and reward loops that drive addictions are also released and activated when we check our phones.”
― Catherine Price, How to Break Up with Your Phone, Revised Edition: The 30-Day Digital Detox Plan

“Multiple studies have associated the heavy use of smartphones (especially when used for social media) with negative effects on neuroticism, self-esteem, impulsivity, empathy, self-identity, and self-image, as well as with sleep problems, anxiety, stress, and depression.”
― Catherine Price, How to Break Up with Your Phone, Revised Edition: The 30-Day Digital Detox Plan

“we first have to understand just how deeply we are already loved that way—by God. Then we can love each other out of the response to His love for us.”
― Nicole Deese, All That Really Matters

“If we do not first choose discipline for ourselves, we cannot expect to instill such a character trait in little people whose impulse control is spotty at best and whose emotions dangle on the gossamer thread of a missed nap. We must train ourselves to remember that we, not they, are meant to be the emotional thermostats of our own homes.”
― Abbie Halberstadt, M Is for Mama: A Rebellion Against Mediocre Motherhood