Calm, Cool, and Connected: 5 Digital Habits for a More Balanced Life

For those feeling overloaded with technology? Let?s face it: most of us are on our phones or computers way more than we?d like to be, and more than what?s even beneficial. We know that overuse of technology is harmful to our health and relationships, but how can we rewire our digital habits for a healthier life? In Calm, Cool, and Connected, Arlene Pellicane will walk you through an easy 5-step plan that will help you center your life on Jesus and love others by decluttering your screen time. By introducing a few easy habits into your daily routine, you can transform your relationship with technology and enjoy more time with God and others. It's easy to become consumed and preoccupied with our devices. In turn, we begin to suppress or ignore what?s most important, focusing instead on the urgent and sensational. Let this book guide you toward balanced technology use, and thus a more balanced life.  Review Calm, Cool, and Connected is the book I have been wishing someone would write. Filled with practical insights and helpful tips, it is a manifesto for all of us parents who are navigating the new frontier of raising kids who have the world at their fingertips, literally. If you ever struggle with guilt about how much your kids are on screens or wage battle with your own proclivity to check email six times an hour, Arlene offers sanity without shaming and provides a way forward that is both life giving and realistic.Mandy AriotoPresident and CEO of MOPS International and author of Starry-Eyed: Seeing Grace in the Unfolding Constellation of Life and Motherhood  In this screen age of distraction, disconnection, and addiction, Calm, Cool, and Connected offers us a better way. Thank you Arlene-this book is timely, extremely practical, and a great resource. Sylvia Hart FrejdFounder and Executive Director Center for Digital Wellness Liberty UniversityWould you like a healthier family life? More joy? Deeper connections? Have you noticed your children being stressed and anxious? What about you? Arlene Pellicane will help you see how your technology use is relevant. Yes, yours. Children tell me all the time that they wish their moms would put down their phones. Many moms want to. Arlene will help you do that and more. Her personal illustrations, compelling data, and practical ideas will inspire you to make realistic changes. They?re doable, directly related to real concerns, and will result in greater contentment. You can learn to be a new and better you!  Kathy KochFounder/president of Celebrate Kids, Inc., and the author of Screens and Teens: Connecting with Our Kids in a Wireless World In today?s culture, no longer are phones used just for calling; instead, they are multipurpose mechanisms that are calling the shots in our lives-dictating how we spend a great majority of our daily waking moments. As a result, I can only think of about three people I know personally-who don?t own a cell phone-that wouldn?t benefit from the advice in Calm, Cool, and Connected. For the rest of us, the time is long overdue! Arlene?s wise insight into this tangled, technical problem coupled with scads of creative, concrete solutions will inspire you to put down your devices so you can spend less time touching screens and more time touching lives instead.  Karen EhmanProverbs 31 Ministries speaker and New York Times bestselling author of Keep It Shut and Listen, Love, Repeat  Arlene Pellicane has addressed head-on the silent foe of our day-our dependence on technology. As we steward ourselves and the next generation, all moms should read Calm, Cool, and Connected! It?s a beautiful blend of practical and spiritual reasons why our dependence on cellphones harms the very things we long for most. Arlene wraps the warnings about the hidden dangers of our phone in a way that brings hope and reminds us, it?s not too late to change. Glynnis WhitwerAuthor of Doing Busy BetterExecutive Director of Comm