Stress isn't your enemy
Before a deadline or a job interview, stress actually gives you energy. Your heart beats faster, you're sharp. It only gets hard when the tension hangs around, long after the moment has passed.
More room in your head
A deadline, a full calendar, a head that won't stop at night. In the Calm theme you learn how stress works and how to let the tension settle. Every exercise fits into an ordinary working day.
Sound familiar?
- It's one in the morning and you are still going through tomorrow's tasks.
- You have so much to do that you don't know where to start, so you don't start at all.
- You rewrite an email for the fourth time before you dare to send it.
- Your Sunday evening already feels like Monday.
What you learn
What happens in your body
Under tension you breathe higher and faster, and your muscles switch on. Your body gets ready for action. Useful when you have to run, less useful when you're lying in bed at eleven at night.
The brake is in your out-breath
Breathing in lifts your heart rate a little, and breathing out lowers it. A long out-breath is a brake you always carry with you. You can use it before a presentation, on the train or in bed.
What you do
These are the exercises in the app. Finish a step and the next one opens.
Breathe out
A minute of breathing that lets your body brake by itself. Before a presentation, on the train or in bed.
Worry slot
Turn your worry into a step, or park it until a set moment.
Good enough
Decide beforehand when something is done, and see what happens when you stop there.
One thing at a time
Put everything in a row, pick one thing and work out your first step.
Exploration
Talk in four steps about what makes you restless and what you want to change.
What it is based on
Every exercise in the app comes from somewhere. In the app you find the research behind each exercise, with the source.
- Breathing
- Breathing out slowly and for long slows your heart rate. In a month-long trial, five minutes a day of breathing like this improved mood more than meditation. Other research suggests that stress feels different once you know your body is helping you with it.
- Worry postponement
- Limiting worry to a set moment each day is one of the oldest techniques against worrying. In small studies, people worried less afterwards, and in one of them they also slept better.
- Perfectionism
- Cognitive behavioural therapy for perfectionism works with small experiments: deliberately leaving something good enough and seeing what happens. A meta-analysis of controlled studies found that perfectionism, anxiety and low mood decrease as a result.
- Problem solving
- Problem-solving therapy teaches people to tackle a problem in steps: naming it, thinking of options, choosing and acting. A meta-analysis shows that this therapy can reduce mental and physical complaints.
How MindMoment works
MindMoment is an app for young adults who want to grow mentally stronger. You start with a few short questions. Then the app puts the themes in an order that suits you.
Available 24/7
Use the app whenever it suits you, at your own pace.
Your privacy first
You decide what you share, and with whom. We handle your data with care.
Step by step
A path of short exercises, and a deeper dive per theme whenever you want.
Together with your therapist or coach
On a waiting list, or already seeing someone? Then they can follow along in the app, if you want them to.
Read how that worksReally not doing well?
MindMoment is not a treatment. Are you really struggling right now? Call your GP, or talk anonymously to 113 on 0800-0113. You can, day and night.
Frequently asked questions
You write down your worry in one sentence. Can you do something about it now? Then you turn it into a small step. Not yet? Then you park it until a set quarter of an hour later in the day.
Yes. High standards often help you. When they start to pinch, Good enough lets you practise stopping at a point you choose beforehand. What happens then is often less than you feared.
A therapist or coach only sees it if you enter their code and say yes. You can withdraw that at any time. We handle your data carefully and transparently.
During the testing phase, MindMoment is free to use for our testers.
Other themes
Emotions
Learn to recognise what you feel and what it wants from you. From just 'bad' to knowing what is really going on.
Sleep
A steady rhythm and a calmer head. See in your check-in what changes.
Connection
See who is around you, and who you'd like closer. Sometimes one text is enough to start.
Happiness at work
More of what gives you energy. In your job, side job or studies.
Core Values
Discover what really matters to you. It makes choosing easier, from a job to your Saturday night.
Get started
Download MindMoment and start with the theme that fits you right now.