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Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.
Real footage of people dying circulates without any warning, sometimes buried inside a video that starts off looking harmless. Young people rarely raise this themselves, so it is worth asking.
Ask plainly what they have come across that they wish they had not seen, and how often it happens. There is no preparation before it and nothing…
The quietest damage comes from a young person deciding that feeling like this is simply how it is, because everyone around them feels it too.
Once distress counts as ordinary it stops being reported. Nobody mentions it at home, nobody brings it to an appointment, and years can pass with…
You are already off your phone somewhere. In lessons, at work, in the pool, driving. That is worth more than it sounds.
It quietly disproves the sentence people say most often about this, that they can never put it down. They already do, most days, for hours at a time.…
Sometimes the scrolling is not really about the scrolling. It is about the coursework, or the conversation, or the thing you have not let yourself think about since March.
You can usually tell by what happens when the phone goes. If the hours quietly move into something else equally absorbing and equally pointless, the…
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.
What you are on there for matters more than how long you are on. Scrolling to keep up with people you love is a different activity from posting and then watching to see who approved.
Use aimed at status, at likes, at managing how you come across tends to sit alongside feeling worse. Use aimed at staying in touch and sharing what…