A calm place to work through
a hard moment.
When stress hits, the facts and the story in our heads blur into one. Steady Mind walks you through a simple coaching method, one line at a time: what actually happened, the thought your mind keeps repeating, the feeling it creates, and a new thought you can actually believe. Type it, or let a calm voice talk you through it. It’s free, and what you write stays on your device unless you ask the AI for help.
Five lines, in order
Then you keep the same facts and build a new set of lines from a thought you believe, like “I’m learning how to write reports she can use.” The model comes from life coach Brooke Castillo’s Self Coaching Model, which grew from the thought record in cognitive behavioral therapy. Full credit
Built for the moment you need it
Eight guided modules, plus breathing practice
Right now (stress in the moment), a thought on a loop, someone else, an urge, a feeling you keep avoiding, a goal, a decision, and five short lessons so you can do it on paper anywhere. And six proven breathing patterns (calm 4-6, box, 4-7-8, the physiological sigh, coherent, belly), each counted in before the first breath and guided breath by breath.
DBT skills, researched and credited
Eleven paths from Dialectical Behavior Therapy in plain words: get through the next hour (STOP, cooling the body, distraction, soothing), accept what you can’t change, check the facts and act opposite, build a DEAR MAN script, cope ahead, find wise mind. Plus a daily diary card you can print for a clinician and a safety plan that’s one tap from the help screen.
A calm voice, if you want it
“Talk me through it” mode reads every step aloud in a slow, natural voice, counts your breaths, waits in real silence while you feel a feeling, and listens when you answer out loud.
Help finding the words
The hardest part is usually separating the facts from the story. An optional AI helper offers a few options you can tap and edit. It asks before sending anything, and this site keeps none of it.
Safety first, on every screen
An “I need help now” button sits at the top of every screen. If what you write sounds like a crisis, abuse or a medical question, the exercise stops and shows real people to call or text.
Private by design
No account, no database. Worksheets live only in your browser, with a backup file you can move to another device and a button to delete everything.
Your progress, in one place
The home screen keeps the thoughts you are practicing, your next steps, your goals with a “fails I learned from” counter, and an urge jar that counts every urge you let pass.
The guided session runs on the same step-by-step engine as my study apps, rebuilt for coaching. The voice is Kokoro, a free, open-source neural voice, recorded in advance so it sounds the same every time and costs nothing to run.
The AI helper sits behind a tiny relay that only accepts four narrow jobs, screens for crisis words before anything reaches the model, and writes no logs. Every AI prompt change has to pass a bench of test cases first, including ones it must catch: indirect signs of a crisis, a controlling partner, a medication question, and grief it must never rush.
Try it now
It takes about eight minutes for a hard moment, or twenty for the full model. Free, no sign-up.
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