How a vacation and a digital detox app helped cure my iPhone addiction

"Get your face out of your phone, Rachel. Your brother's here to spend time with you." These were the words—uttered to me by my mother during a family visit—that yanked me out of the iPhone-addicted vortex I'd fallen head over heels into.

Life was passing me by as I hunched over a tiny screen for six or seven hours a day. A screen that I seemed to deem more deserving of my time and attention than my nearest and dearest family members. I needed an iPhone detox. But, first, I needed to look up from my screen.