Hi, this is K-Songer. This week we are doing something special on Radio Headspace. We've

invited our good friend and fun expert, Catherine Price, to talk to you about introducing

more fun into your life. We are calling it a fun to-vention. If you'd like to hear more

about bringing joy and play into your life, our amazing teacher Eve just released a single

on the Headspace app called Finding Time for Joy. It's especially helpful for this time

of year. Alrighty, enjoy the episode.

Hi, my name is Catherine Price and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Monday Morning. I'll

be guest hosting Radio Headspace for the next week and I am absolutely thrilled to be here.

I am a science journalist, the founder of a platform called ScreenLifeBalance.com, an author

of books including How to Break Up With Your Phone, and a new book called The Power of

Fun, How to Feel Alive Again. And this week is going to focus on that last book I mentioned,

The Power of Fun. In short, I'm going to be coaching you through a week-long fun to-vention,

if you will, which is designed to help you understand some of the amazing benefits of

fun that I've discovered and to also help you start to have more fun yourself.

So one question people ask me is how did I even get started writing a book about fun? So

to back up, I've got a long history of turning my own personal issues into professional projects.

It's what led me to write How to Break Up With Your Phone and now it is resulted in this

new book. So basically, when I started to create better boundaries with technology, I faced

a problem I hadn't anticipated, which is to say, I didn't actually know what to do with

the time that I had reclaimed. And there was this one particular afternoon that really brought

that to a head. I'd been getting into this practice, which I encourage you to try as

well, where my husband and I were taking full 24 hour breaks from our screens each week,

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