Screen time
The umbrella, the age-specific, and the device-specific. Seven guides, seven angles, one practice.
How to reduce screen time
The umbrella guide. Includes the Reduction Roadmap calculator that builds a week-by-week reduction plan, the research on what your hours are actually costing, and the 10-step playbook that holds.
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How to reduce screen time as an adult
The opportunity-cost framing. A Trade Calculator that shows what 547 hours a year could actually do.
How to reduce screen time on phone
The device-tactical guide. A Phone Friction Audit and the actual iOS and Android settings to change.
How to reduce screen time before bed
The sleep-science guide. A personalized Wind-Down Sequence Builder and the three bedroom rules that hold.
How to reduce screen time for kids
A Time Budget Visualizer mapped to AAP sleep targets, for parents of school-aged kids (6 to 12).
How to reduce screen time for teens
A symptom-to-domain diagnostic and the collaborative strategies that actually hold with 13 to 18 year olds.
How to reduce screen time for toddlers
A Screen Moment Coach for the witching hour, restaurants, flights, and other survival moments. Ages 1 to 5.
Addiction
The research, the self-checks, and the structural fixes that aren't another willpower lecture.
Screen addiction: signs, self-check, and how to take your attention back
The 1-minute Smartphone Addiction Scale, an interactive calculator that shows what phone interruptions cost in actual focus time, and the structural fixes that work where willpower doesn't.
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Shopping addiction
Compulsive buying is real, common, and worse in the phone era. A self-check based on the Bergen Shopping Addiction Scale and the dopamine loop explained.
Movies about addiction
A 100-film recommender with filters for substance, era, budget, and critics rating. Curated cuts for drug, alcohol, recovery, and behavioral compulsion.
Is addiction hereditary?
An interactive heritability chart across nine addictions, the population-vs-personal misreading, and why phone overuse sits lower on the heritability scale.
Anxiety
The 3 AM toolkit, the everyday triggers, and the structural fixes that match the research. Six guides, six angles.
Anxiety at night: what's keeping you up and what actually helps
A 3 AM toolkit with six evidence-based grounding techniques you can do without leaving bed, the research on why anxiety hits hardest at night, and the structural fixes that hold longer term.
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Positive affirmations for anxiety
A Personal Affirmation Builder, the research on what works (including what backfires), and 40+ believable affirmations sorted by anxiety type.
Anxiety symptoms in men
A hidden self-check with 20 male-coded patterns the standard diagnostic instruments often miss. The research on why male presentation differs.
Can caffeine cause anxiety
A Caffeine Load Calculator, the genetic variation (40x clearance rate difference), and the hidden sources most adults don't count.
Can melatonin cause anxiety
A Protocol Check, the dose problem most articles skip (US OTC is 10-30x the research-supported dose), and the supplement quality problem.
Can dehydration cause anxiety
A symptom Match-Up that surfaces the overlap most people miss, the research on 1-2% water loss and mood, and the 60-minute self-test.
Mental health
Apps, prompts, clarity, blocks, and quotes that don't try to fix you. Six guides for what gets in the way.
Mental health apps: the match finder and what actually has research behind it
An App Match Finder that sorts you to the right category first (meditation, CBT, therapy access, mood tracking, sleep, digital wellbeing), the research on what actually works, and honest evidence notes per category.
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Journal prompts for mental health
A Personalized Prompt Generator (108 combinations), 50+ research-anchored prompts by category, and the Pennebaker expressive writing protocol.
Mental clarity
An Inventory of cognitive load across six categories, the working-memory research, and the daily practices that produce clarity through subtraction.
Mental block
A diagnostic for six kinds of block (generation, decision, starting, execution, energy, avoidance), each with a different mechanism and a different fix.
Mental peace quotes
A Peace Card Builder, 8 contemplative themes, and 48 curated quotes (Buddhist, Stoic, Sufi, modern contemplatives) with honest attribution.
Positive mental health quotes
A Pep Talk Builder (8 situations x 3 tones), 50+ quotes from people who have been through something, and an explicit anti-toxic-positivity framing.
Hobbies
What to do with the hours back. The full encyclopedia, the audience-specific picks, and the curated cuts.
The complete list of hobbies (150+ examples, sorted)
The reference page. 150+ hobbies sorted by category, with a multi-axis filter widget for time, cost, indoor or outdoor, and calm vs. fun. The page to send anyone who asks "what are some hobbies."
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Hobbies for women
100+ calm, screen-free hobby ideas grouped by category and life stage. A small picker that matches a hobby to the time you actually have.
Hobbies for men
100+ calm, screen-free hobby ideas. Whittling, fishing, slow cooking, music, walks, woodworking. Not side-hustle rebranding.
Creative hobbies
40+ ideas for making something with your hands. Each with a small-start kit and a "what to make today" picker for when you want to be told what to do.
Pax Gate is a mindful app blocker
One small pause sits in front of the apps you open without thinking. The pause turns into a gratitude prompt, a quick reflection, or a mood log with Pax, your panda companion. Custom pause profiles, your own triggers and time windows, a private sanctuary you build out over time, and an insights view that shows where your attention is actually going. Not a hard lockout, just enough friction to break the loop. Free to try. Paid for the full experience.
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