Calm · 180 days

Body at home, head still at work, at 11:40 pm?

180 days of stress work based on cognitive behavioural therapy, applied relaxation and attention training. One small technique for the body or the mind each day — small enough that you do it even on a bad day.

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Sound familiar?

  • You lie down exhausted and that is exactly when your head opens the session: what happened, what is coming, what could go wrong. You fall asleep after an hour and wake before the alarm.

  • You check the inbox for the eighth time, knowing the answer has not come. It feels lighter for a moment — then you check the ninth.

  • Someone says "we need to talk" and you spend the rest of the day inside that sentence, not inside your life. The talk turns out to be nothing. The day does not come back.

  • You are supposedly resting — with the phone in your hand and a task list running in the background. After the weekend you are as tired as before it.

How it works

  1. 01

    You take the test

    A dozen-plus questions, two minutes. You get a profile: which channel stress uses most in you — the body, the thoughts or the worrying.

  2. 02

    You get one technique a day

    A four-minute lesson and one micro-exercise inside your real day. Not "reduce your stress" — "do two exhales today before you open the inbox".

  3. 03

    The calibration compounds

    The alarm stays — its sensitivity changes. After a month the tension peaks are lower and the descents faster. Not a matter of willpower, a matter of repetitions.

Preview from the app

This is what your day looks like

Four minutes of reading and one action. No hour-long meditations, no homework for the evening.

Day 3Phase 1 · Foundation

The brake you carry in your lungs

4 min read

Do this today

Do 6–10 extended-exhale breaths (inhale for 4, exhale for 6) twice today — in calm moments, not in a crisis.

Done

Reflection

How much did your tension change after two minutes of breathing?

What did you notice?

  • Day 6Three minutes before sleep: list everything hanging over you, keywords only. The page stays outside the bedroom.
  • Day 13Catch the moment your shoulders rise towards your ears — and drop them with one exhale, before the head writes the rest.
  • Day 23Send every caught worry to a list: "I will deal with this in the window at 5:30 pm". And return to your day.
What it stands on

What it stands on

The program does not stand on motivational quotes. Every week has a clear source you can check:

Cognitive behavioural therapy

Working with the thoughts the alarm treats as facts: decatastrophising, reviewing the appraisal of threats and resources, testing beliefs about worry.

Applied relaxation

Body training from full tense-and-release rounds down to release on a single word — a classic, well-researched path to calm available within a minute.

Attention training and mindfulness

The ability to place attention where you want it — instead of where the worry loop pulls it. Built on ordinary activities, not on a meditation cushion.

The program is educational and developmental. It is not therapy, diagnosis or treatment, and it does not replace contact with a psychologist, psychotherapist or doctor.

Questions you probably have

Is this therapy?+

No. It is an educational program: it teaches stress-regulation techniques that come from research, but it does not diagnose or treat. If tension prevents you from functioning day to day, you have panic attacks, or symptoms persist despite your attempts — the right address is a psychologist or psychotherapist, and this program can be a supplement at most.

I have no time for another commitment.+

A program day is about five minutes: a short lesson and one exercise woven into what you already do — a breath before email, a dump before sleep. The program deliberately requires no reserved time, because techniques that require it lose to life in the first bad week.

I have tried meditation and could not keep it up. How is this different?+

Meditation is one technique — here there are a dozen-plus, one per day, and most take under two minutes. You do not have to sit in silence: you work on ordinary activities, emails and traffic jams. And if something does not work for you, the program teaches you to see it in numbers, not in guilt.

Can stress even be "removed"?+

No — and the program does not promise that. The stress alarm is necessary; the problem is that in most of us it is miscalibrated: it fires at emails as if they were fires. The goal is calibration — rarer, weaker and shorter alarms — not a tension-free life, which does not exist.

How will I know it works?+

From day two you measure tension with a number, three times a day, ten seconds each. After a month you compare your own data, not impressions: the height of the peaks and the speed of the descents. If the numbers stand still, you see it — and you know what to change.

What if I miss a few days?+

You come back the next day and continue — the program is built on returns, not on perfect streaks. There is a catch-up mode and gentler exercise variants for worse days. The person who comes back after a break is ahead of everyone waiting for a perfect week.

Your alarm works fine. Time to set the sensitivity.

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