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…this is 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.

Why I Created Digital Detox

🎥 Watch this 5-minute video to hear the story behind Digital Detox, the neuroscience, and how the course can support your healing.

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Meet your Instructor

Abby Payne helps overwhelmed professionals escape the endless scroll and step into calm, clarity, and presence. Burned out in the ICU and stuck in late-night screen habits, she discovered the neuroscience of digital overwhelm—and built a roadmap back to freedom.

Through her Digital Detox Program, Abby shows you how to reduce anxiety, sleep better, and cut screen time—so you can stop surviving on autopilot and start living fully, intentionally, and guilt-free. It’s not about quitting screens—it’s about reclaiming your life.

Imagine waking up without that familiar knot of stress, fully present for the people you love, and finally able to focus on the work and moments that matter most. Abby’s approach blends science, soul, and real-world tools to guide you from overwhelm to ease—because life is too short to live in a digital fog.

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Preview Course curriculum

This Prep Work module will help you feel grounded, informed, and ready to make the most of your Digital Detox.
You’ll:
- ✨ Get a Full Course Overview
- 🛠️ Set Up The Blocking App
- ✅ 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. 💫
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: Setting Intention & the Key to Habit Change
- 🎧 Podcast Homework: Understanding Your Dopamine Pathways (Part 1)
- ✍️ Journaling
- ✅ Module Quiz
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
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
- ✍️ Reflective Assignment:
- ✅ Module Quiz
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
- Reading Assignment
- Guided Meditation
- ✅ Module Quiz
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
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: Separating Worth from Work
- ✍️ Movie Review Assignment!
- ✅ Module Quiz
Neuroscience shows we 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
- 🧘‍♂️ 4-Day Meditation Challenge with Recordings by Nurse Abby
- ✍️ Optional Space for Deeper Reflection
- ✅ Module Quiz
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
- ✅ Final Quiz

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💬 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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