doreen dodgen-magee, psy.d.

doreen dodgen-magee, psy.d. author | speaker | psychologist
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Yesterday, I got to spend time with Teach for America, talking about how to live healthy lives while also living with th...
02/27/2026

Yesterday, I got to spend time with Teach for America, talking about how to live healthy lives while also living with the need to be online.

A brilliant participant asked my opinion about tools used to help us focus (music, ambient noise, having a show on while working, etc).

We’ve acclimated to so much stimulation, that the kind of lack of it that we actually thrive on, is almost impossible to achieve any more.

Here are my humble offerings for how to regain comfort in, and familiarity with, quiet.

Embracing at least some of this in our lives has the power to literally change the world, lowering the blood pressure and stress of everyone around us.

Do you have some ideas I haven’t listed? If so, please share. We all need help in this pursuit.

02/27/2026

I’m excitedly preparing to bombard you with ideas of how to spend time without your phone.

I believe, with my whole heart and mind, that the world would be a kinder, healthier, and more inclusive place if each of us spent at least part of our days apart from our devices and their constant message indicators.

It can be fun and easy if we plan ahead.

Buckle your seat belt and follow along this week as I work to inspire you with tips and ideas.

✨ UNPLUGGING GIVEAWAY ✨�We’re giving one of you a head start on unplugging, with a bundle that arrives before the Global...
02/25/2026

✨ UNPLUGGING GIVEAWAY ✨�
We’re giving one of you a head start on unplugging, with a bundle that arrives before the Global Day of Unplugging.�
From sundown March 6–7, people around the world will be powering down their devices to slow down, do less, and reconnect. Some will unplug for 30 minutes, others for a full day, and many for something in between.�
Research shows it’s easier to step away from our phones when our hands and minds have something else to do. So we’ve put together a bundle of delightfully non-digital tools to help make unplugging feel possible (and maybe even enjoyable).�
🎉 THE PRIZE 🎉�One winner will receive:�
• Two books about why and how to unplug + a 10 minute sand timer and instructions for creating space + hand pressed niksen journal from
• A paint-by-number kit + painting lapboard from .cree.pdx�
• A game (Flatter Me: A Compliment Battle) from �

👇 HOW TO ENTER 👇

1️⃣ Follow all of these accounts:��.cree.pdx��
2️⃣ Comment below and tell us your favorite way to unplug�
3️⃣ Tag 3 friends in your comment (each comment = one entry)

🗓️ Winner will be randomly selected on 2/28 and the prize will be shipped shortly after, arriving in time for the Global Day of Unplugging (March 6–7).

02/22/2026

We’ll have everything you need to put your phone down to:

🎨 be creative

😴 rest

🧩 do a puzzle or play a game

✍🏻 journal

🧘🏼‍♀️ meditate

either

🧍🏽 alone

or

👭 together.

Details in the linktr.ee in my bio.

02/20/2026

Unplugging is a gift to our brains, bodies, relationships, and mental health but it can be difficult to make happen.

Let us help you!

If you’re in Portland, Oregon, join us at on March 6 from 3-6.

If you’re not in Portland, join us here, live, at 3:00, 4:00, and 5:00 (Pacific) for informative, fun, data driven, idea packed mini pep talks on how to do nothing & why it’s important by tech & mental health expert & award winning author !

In person, .cree.pdx will be on site with things to color & paint (or purchase to take home).

Complete a scavenger hunt around the beautiful, visually stunning shop for a special gift.

Join us downstairs where we’ll have everything you need to unplug & have solitude/meditative space or connect with others. , creative materials, & some meditation tools will all be on hand & free to use.

Free nap sacks (that you can take home) for your phones included.

All the details are in the link in my Linkt.ree.

Mark your calendars, we can’t wait to see you in two weeks!

The most amazing thing happened to me in a subway station yesterday.While racing to catch a train, a young woman rushed ...
02/16/2026

The most amazing thing happened to me in a subway station yesterday.

While racing to catch a train, a young woman rushed up to me saying, “How you so cute? It’s criminal to be this beautiful!”

I was flustered and tried, hard, to move past her because, a few years ago, I learned that I am the easiest prey for every sales person.

At 55, and feeling largely invisible in the world (this is a real thing…ask most women at that age), I had walked through a mall while speaking in a large city.

Clueless, and being my friendly self, I made eye contact with everyone and said “hi!”

Three times I was lulled into skin care demonstrations by young men at kiosks who tried to flatter me into buying products to make me look younger.

“How do you look so young?” “Want to be even more beautiful than you already are?”

I realized, as I walked away, that I was being played.

Fast forward to the subway and me trying to dodge a pitch and not give any credence to a declaration of beauty rooted in manipulation.

This woman, it turns out, had no agenda other than to make me smile and feel, truly, beautiful. She told us a silly joke (I’ll put it in the first comment.) Then wished me the “very best of days” and waved us on our way.

This woman is often me. Trying to tell people I don’t know how incredible they are. Now I understand why so many of them look at me suspiciously.

Thank you, to this stranger, for reminding me of the power that comes with being generous and using interpersonal super powers for good.

The second slide is more true than you know. Please take it seriously.

02/09/2026

While in Ireland, speaking at a Quaker summer camp, a dear one in Ireland suggested I go visit St. Valentine’s shrine.

I’m so glad I did. What I’ve learned since has emboldened and encouraged me.

Not in the way of martyrdom but in the way of love and its role in resistance.

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