An 8-Week Self-Guided Program
Reset your nervous system.
Reclaim your attention.
Restore your peace.
Digital detox
The Truth:
This is a Nervous System Emergency
We weren’t meant to live like this—always "on," always reachable, endlessly scrolling through other people’s lives while losing touch with our own.
This isn’t just a bad habit. It’s a public health crisis.
As a nurse, I see it in the body.
As a healer, I feel it in the heart.
As a human, I’ve lived it in my own life.
We are overstimulated, overextended, and disconnected from the most sacred thing we have: our own attention.
➤ This isn’t about giving up your phone.
➤ It’s about getting your life back.We weren’t meant to live like this…
“I took the Digital Detox course with Nurse Abby in August 2024 and I am still using nearly all of the practices I learned almost a year later. The education, information, and support I received from this course truly helped me change my life. ”
What is the Digital Detox program?
An 8-week self-guided journey to help you untangle from digital overwhelm and reconnect with your natural rhythm—body, mind, and soul.
This isn’t a restrictive detox. You’ll move through weekly lessons, somatic practices, and reflection tools that rewire habits with compassion, not shame.
It’s not about cutting tech completely.
It’s about reclaiming your presence, peace, and power.
Is This for You?
Digital Detox is for the sensitive, smart, soulful person who’s mastered pushing through—but feels something’s off.
You might be:
🫀 Emotionally aware but mentally scattered
🌀 “Fine” on the outside, anxious inside
📱 Caught in loops of scrolling and checking
🌿 Longing for stillness, structure, and breath
🧬 Curious about the science behind stress and screens
🔮 Ready for deep change—not productivity hacks
If you're a science-loving soul-seeker, you're in the right place.
Not for You If…
If you’re only looking for a productivity hack or aren’t open to somatic or spiritual work, this might not be the right fit — and that’s okay.
Why Willpower Isn’t Enough
This isn’t a personal failure. Your brain is doing what it’s wired to do:
✔︎ Seek safety and pleasure
✔︎ Avoid discomfort
✔︎ Stay alert to threat
In a world of constant stimulation, fear-based news, and infinite scrolls—of course it’s hard to unplug.
➞ The digital world is designed to be addictive.
➞ Your presence = their profit.
What You Really Need:
Thoughtful guardrails
Gentle structure
A nervous-system-safe skillset
This detox is rooted in compassion, brain science, and somatic tools—not guilt or grit.
Preview Course curriculum
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Before diving into Module 1, this Prep Work module will help you feel grounded, informed, and ready to make the most of your Digital Detox.
Here’s what you’ll do:
✨ Welcome Message & Course Overview (22:36)
🛠️ Tech Walkthrough: How to Set Up ScreenZen (29:01)
✅ Practice Quiz to Warm Up Your Brain
Once you’ve finished, you’ll be fully ready to begin Module 1 with clarity, intention, and the right tools in place. 💫
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We are all creatures of habit, and there’s a real science behind how those habits are built and how they can be rewired. When we bring awareness to our patterns, we create the space to make empowered choices. And that’s where all transformation begins.
In this Module:
🧠 Video Lesson: Awareness, Intention & the Science of Habit Change (25:59)
🎧 Podcast Homework: Understanding Your Dopamine Pathways (Part 1)
✍️ Journaling Assignment to Get Clear on Your "Why"
✅ Module Quiz
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This Module introduces dopamine—your brain’s motivation and reward chemical. Building on the podcast homework from Module 1, you’ll learn how the digital world affects your dopamine system and your overall brain health and how to begin gently rebalancing it, so you can experience more joy, clarity, and presence in everyday life.
In this Module:
🧬 Video Lesson: How Digital Life Disrupts Motivation & Reward (33:45)
🎧 Podcast Assignment: Deep Dive on Dopamine (Part 2)
✍️ Journaling Prompt
✅ Module Quiz
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In this Module, we’re tuning in to the wisdom of your nervous system. Your nervous system is an ancient intelligence, fine tuned and passed on by our ancestors. In this lesson, you’ll learn how your body responds to stress, stimulation, and screens—and how to come back into regulation.
This isn’t about restriction; it’s about reconnecting with the calm and safety that already lives inside of you.
Inside this Module:
🧘♀️ Video Lesson: Crash Course in Nervous System Regulation (42:19)
✍️ Reflective Assignment: Your Body’s Signals
✅ Module Quiz
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This module is about getting honest and compassionate with the state of your nervous system. Sometimes, our nervous system can get 'stuck' in the Fight/Flight or Freeze due to past experiences being held in the body. This is a protective and survival mechanism of the body and it doesn't mean there's anything wrong with you.
Understanding how this mechanism works is the first step to clearing that residual energy and finding calm without needing to turn to screens for numbing.
In this Module:
💥 Video Lesson: When the Nervous System Gets Stuck (33:37)
🎧 Podcast Assignment: Spiritual Impact of Screen Time
✍️ Guided Practice for Emotional Flow
✅ Module Quiz
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Integration is essential—this week is intentionally spacious. It’s your time to pause, breathe, and allow all you’ve been learning to settle more deeply into your body, mind, and life.
This Module Includes:
🌀 A full week to rest, integrate, and reflect
✨ Coaching Session #1 (if purchased bundle)
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In this Module, Nurse Abby guides you through the power of disconnecting from technology to reconnect with your true self and inherent worth.
Discover how stepping away from screens can help break free from productivity-based self-worth and low self-esteem. Embrace self-care and quiet reflection to nurture inner peace and restore balance in your life.
What’s Included:
🌙 Video Lesson: Shifting Your Identity to Match Your Intentions (38:42)
✍️ Movie Review Assignment: “Lights, Camera, Insight!”
✅ Module Quiz
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In today’s digital world, constant info and distractions overwhelm us. Mindfulness helps us stay present and focused. Neuroscience shows it can rewire your brain for peace and calm. In this module, Abby presents meditation as medicine, explores styles, and shows how mindfulness anchors you in a mindless world.
In this Module:
🌿 Video Lesson: How to Cultivate Presence in a Digital World (33:49)
🧘♂️ 4-Day Meditation Challenge with Recordings by Nurse Abby
✍️ Optional Space for Deeper Reflection
✅ Module Quiz
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The Final Threshold: Slaying your Dragon
Every hero faces a final test. In this lesson, we explore a timeless map of transformation: the Hero’s Journey. You’ll be invited to descend into your own inner cave and come face to face with what truly drives your scrolling.
This is where strategy meets soul. As the course nears completion, this reflection will help you uncover your long-term path—and prepare you, if purchased, for our final coaching session of integration and clarity.
In this Module:
🔥 Video Lesson: Crafting Your Long-Term Digital Detox Plan (35:58)
✍️ Final Reflection + Pre-Coaching Prep
✅ Final Quiz
Choose Your pathway
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✨ Self-Guided Course ✨
Move through the course at your own pace. Ideal for independent learners who are ready for transformation—without coaching or community.
What You Get:
✔️ Lifetime access to 8-week course
✔️ Weekly video lessons + quizzes
✔️ Podcasts, journaling, & science-backed tools
Investment: $397
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🌿 Course + Coaching Bundle 🌿
Get everything in the self-guided course plus 2 private coaching sessions with Nurse Abby to stay on track and deepen your experience.
What You Get:
✔️ Lifetime access to 8-week course
✔️ 2 × 1-Hour Private Coaching sessions (use within 12 weeks)
✔️ Structure, momentum, accountability
Investment: $597
Meet your Instructor
Meet Abby Payne, RN, Board-Certified Holistic Nurse Coach + Creator of the Digital Detox Program
Abby Payne is a Registered Nurse, Board-Certified Coach, and the creator of the Digital Detox program. After burning out in the ICU during the pandemic and turning to late-night scrolling to cope, Abby experienced firsthand the toll of digital overwhelm. That wake-up call led her to study the neuroscience of habit, screen addiction, and nervous system regulation.
Blending research with soul, she developed tools that helped her heal—and then began teaching others to do the same. What started as a live group experience now lives on as a self-paced course that has helped people reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and cut screen time by up to 90%.
With a clinical foundation, holistic lens, and trauma-informed approach, Abby guides people to reconnect with their bodies, values, and presence—without guilt or perfectionism.
My Approach
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science-backed
Digital Detox is based on research in behavior change, nervous system regulation, screen overuse psychology, and stress physiology. Lasting change occurs when we understand our behavior patterns and their root causes. Using practical, proven tools, sustainable transformation is possible.
With over a decade as a Registered Nurse and a Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach, I offer expert, compassionate, and tailored strategies to support your whole well-being.
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Holistic
As a Board Certified Nurse Coach (NC-BC), I know true wellness integrates mind, body, and spirit—all influenced by screen habits.
This course covers the mind (dopamine, habits, screen psychology), body (nervous system, somatic awareness, chronic stimulation), and spirit (mindfulness, meditation, sabbath, worth beyond productivity).
It’s about reconnecting with yourself, not perfection.
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Designed for Real life
This course isn’t about willpower—it’s about practical tools and proven blocking software to help you stop scrolling and start living.
Your life and nervous system are unique, so this course meets you where you are. You’ll set your own limits each week, based on your goals. Whether self-paced or guided, the focus is alignment—not perfection.
You already have the wisdom. This is the structure and support to bring it to life. By the end, you’ll feel more present, clear, and grounded.
💬 A note from me to you
I created this course for the version of me that felt stuck and addicted to my phone and had forgotten how to be still.
The one who could scroll for hours but couldn’t sit in silence for five minutes.
The one who didn’t know her body was asking for regulation, not more stimulation.
We live in a culture that celebrates speed, noise, and stimulation—but I believe the real revolution is presence.
You are allowed to slow down.
You are allowed to be here.
And you don’t have to do it alone.
With the right education and tools, peace and presence can be your new normal.
Let’s unplug together.
With love,
Abby
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Bachelors in Nursing
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CannyNurse Graduate
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Nurse Coach Board Certified
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Coach Mentorship Program
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Certified Holding Space Practitioner
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Certified Deep Transformational Coach