Special Pricing Until Tuesday 9/15!
Stop feeling out of control around your phone.
Scroll less. Feel calmer. Get your attention back. And have more time for actually living your life.
Take your life back from the scroll.
Maybe you’ve noticed your phone habits have gotten a little… out of control. Like you’re addicted to it or something. Or plainly, you’re just tired of being on your phone so much.
Can’t read a book without reaching for your phone.
Can’t watch a show without scrolling at the same time.
Attention span is shot.
Screen time is beyond.
Open Instagram, close Instagram, and somehow open Instagram again????
Hours lost to TikTok and brain feels like mush.
Reach for your phone when you’re bored. Tired. Lonely. Overwhelmed. Avoiding something. Waiting in line. Watching TV. Eating lunch. Going to bed.
Somewhere along the way, scrolling became the answer to everything.
And half the time, we’re not even enjoying it anymore.
We doomscroll, feel like sh*t, then scroll MORE to feel better about it.
We compare ourselves to everyone because everyone is right there. Their followers. Their likes. Their shares. Their seemingly perfect lives.
And eventually we find ourselves thinking: Why can’t I stop scrolling even when I don’t want to be scrolling anymore? Why can’t I put this f*cking phone down?
That’s the cycle The Phone Pause is designed to interrupt.
Because you don’t just want to spend less time on your phone.
You want to want your phone less.
You want to feel calm around it. Like you’re the one in control—not that little device in your hand.
Welcome to The Phone Pause.
It’s time to get re-obsessed with your own life.
Wouldn’t it be nice if…
you could read a book for 2 hours without dying for a scroll?
you could watch an entire movie without picking up your phone?
you could enjoy social media for a while and then—wild concept—be done?
you could wait in line without immediately reaching for your phone?
you could have hobbies you actually lose yourself in?
you could think for yourself again without crowdsourcing your opinions?
you could text back when you text back?
you could leave your phone in another room and forget it’s there?
you could spend time with someone without scrolling and half-listening?
you could get your attention span back?
be bored again without it being an existential crisis?
feel calm around your phone?
in control around your phone?
use it when you want it…
and put it the hell down when you don’t?
Your phone can have a place in your life. It just doesn’t run your life.
And all that attention you were giving away becomes blissfully available again.
For your ideas. Your friends. Your family. Your kids. Your interests. Your creativity. Your passions. Your dreams. Your hobbies.
Your actual life.
This isn’t just a nice list of things that sound good.
You’re not actually at the mercy of your phone. You just haven’t built a calm, balanced, intentional relationship with it yet.
And how could you have?
Phones and social media showed up and just… took over our lives. Most of us never paused long enough to even ask: How do I actually want my relationship with my phone to be?
That’s exactly what The Phone Pause is designed to help you figure out.
So, what exactly is The Phone Pause?
The Phone Pause is a 3 week digital course designed to interrupt the unconscious way you use your phone and help you build a calmer, more intentional relationship with it.
Through a combination of audio lessons, reflections, and worksheets, you’ll come out the other side with a whole new way of relating to your phone and social media.
Right now, you might be scrolling on autopilot. You might feel like your phone habits are not sustainable. You might have no idea how to stop.
There’s nothing wrong with you. Simply put, you need to just get intentional about your phone and almost all of these issues will be solved.
Each day, a new Pause will unlock inside your Dashboard:
an audio lesson
or a reflection
or something to pay attention to
or an experiment
or a fun, simple worksheet
or a combination of all of them
All of it intentionally designed to be powerful, transformative, and help you change your relationship to your phone.
There’s nothing live. No set time you need to show up. Just log in each day, go through what’s been unlocked, and then go live your life.
Over the 21 days, you’ll start seeing your phone use much more clearly—and that awareness gives you the chance to make different choices instead of automatically reaching, opening, scrolling, and repeating.
By Day 21, you’ll use everything you’ve learned about yourself to create your own Digital Wellness Plan for how you actually want your phone and the internet to fit into your life.
After 3 weeks, what will be different?
You will have a new relationship with your phone—one built around awareness and intention instead of constantly trying to force yourself away from it.
You’ll break the compulsive cycle of reaching, opening, scrolling, and repeating.
What I want is for you to feel empowered around how you use your phone, because once you become aware of something that isn't working for you, it becomes much harder to keep doing it automatically.
What you’ll get during The Phone Pause
You’ll get something new every day for 3 weeks, but here’s a little preview of where we’re going:
Week 1: Understand your relationship with your phone
You’ll look at how you currently use your phone
What you actually want from the internet
How your feeds make you feel
What you want your relationship with social media to look like instead
You’ll also audit your feeds and start intentionally shaping what gets your attention
Week 2: Understand why you scroll
You’ll learn to recognize what I call Scroll Spirals—the moments you automatically reach for your phone and pass the point where scrolling no longer feels good
You’ll find out what you’re actually looking for when you scroll and learn how to pause before the scroll takes over.
You’ll explore boredom, avoidance, comparison, outrage, consumption, and the point where scrolling stops feeling good but you keep doing it anyway.
Week 3: Create a new relationship with your phone
You’ll learn about what I call the Connected Era, which is where I think we’re going and about the other eras we’ve been in
How to create your own Upward Spirals, which are better ways to respond to what you actually need
You’ll establish healthy and personal phone boundaries that make your life better
You’ll learn how to reclaim your attention
You’ll rethink who and what gets access to you
And you’ll identify how to use your phone for genuine connection and how to reinvest in your offline life so you can scroll way less and live way more
Finally: Build your own Digital Wellness Plan
You’ll pull everything you’ve learned together: your Scroll Spirals, Upward Spirals, phone boundaries, attention intentions, what you want more and less of online, and the parts of your life you want to protect from your phone
Then you’ll compare where you started on Day 1 with where you are after 21 days—and leave with a clear vision for how you want to use your phone going forward
Hi, I’m Jamie Varon and I’m the founder of The Phone Pause
I’ve spent most of my adult life on the internet.
In 2009, I went viral for the first time. Since then, I’ve built an audience, career, businesses and much of my creative life online.
I love the internet. And I can also acknowledge there is a lot going on there that I am not a fan of.
But after spending nearly two decades living and working online, I’ve become deeply interested in these questions:
How do we go online without letting it take over our life?
How do we curb the addictive nature of social media?
How do we scroll without it becoming a replacement for living?
How do we actually develop a balanced, intentional, & calm relationship with our phones, social media, and the internet in general?
I created The Phone Pause to explore those questions and to create a movement around digital wellbeing that relies on curiosity and awareness.
I’m not interested in doom, gloom, shame, or blame. I’m interested in co-existing with the internet, finding the good in what it offers, and then living the hell out of my life with full presence and enjoyment.
I’m the author of the novel Main Character Energy, named an Amazon Best Romance of September 2023, as well as the novel Charlie Quinn Lets Go, both published by HarperCollins. I’m also the author of self-help book Radically Content and Radically Content: The Journal, both published by Quarto. I’m also the author of The Alchemy Within, self-published under my own imprint.
With more than 300,000 followers across social media, my writing has been viewed and shared millions of times—including by Kelsea Ballerini, Khloé Kardashian, Camila Cabello, Chrissy Metz, Lucy Hale, Maren Morris, Shay Mitchell, Lil Nas X, and Hayley Kiyoko.
I’ve been interviewed on various podcasts, including The Financial Diet, The Deep Dive with Jessica St. Clair and June Diane Raphael, The Everygirl Podcast, and Work in Progress with Sophia Bush.
Beyond my books, I’ve spent nearly two decades building a career on the internet—writing, creating, building audiences, launching businesses, and developing digital experiences and educational programs that have reached people around the world. I have created several digital courses, including Live with Intention, Bring the Magic Back, Write That Book, and The Reality Rewrite.
I’ve been featured in:
The Phone Pause
Cheat Sheet
What is it? A 3 week digital course.
Is it live? No.
Where is it? Online.
How often? Something new every day.
What am I doing? Learning and examining how I use my phone, the internet and social media—and deciding how I actually want to use them so I spend less time scrolling and more time living.
Are you going to tell me to stop using my phone? No.
When does the first Pause unlock? September 15.
What does it cost? Just one payment of $21, until 9/15, when the price goes up.
Are there refunds? Yes. If you get halfway through The Phone Pause and realize it’s not for you, just email me and I’ll refund you.
Do I get the content forever? Yes. Once something unlocks, it’s yours to keep.
Can I sign up anytime? Yes, but if you sign up before 9/15, you’ll get The Phone Pause for the lowest price it will ever be.