1,000 Phone-Free Hours: Lessons From a Yearlong Experiment

When author Hannah Brencher began stepping away from her phone, she found contentment and freedom. In this interview, she shares how we can do the same.

Author Hannah Brencher wrote about the importance of unplugging from her cellphone. Taylor Zorzi/Zorzi Creative

On her 33rd birthday, writer, speaker, and online coach Hannah Brencher decided to go 1,000 hours phone-free for a year.

Brencher, who lives in Atlanta with her husband, Lane, and daughter, Novalee, is also the founder of The World Needs More Love Letters, an organization inspired by her first book, “If You Find This Letter.”