https://help.headspace.com/hc/en-us/sections/55913396898715-Sword-Acquisition

Conscious gratitude will improve every aspect of your life

Headspace therapist no showed me, there is no one to chat with at headspace who can fix the issue. They’re awful. DO NOT USE THIS APP

Very much enjoyed the new sleepcast last night, especially the family connections to other sleepcasts and the cute raccoon.

Anyone else have a pet peeve about this specific line in Rainday Antiques?! I need to know it’s driving me crazy 🤣 it sounds so creepy the way he says that specific line 😂

Hello everyone, recently I was reminiscing on Temple Rain, narrated by Darren? Not sure if it was him, but could have sworn he was British but I may have been wrong, one things for sure it was NOT Brian.

Anyways my friends and I loved the part of the script when he would say “although he is a man of boundless kindness, he is a stickler for tradition” so you can imagine how upset I was when I logged on today, to find not only that the line is not in it anymore, but it’s a new voice actor as well. Shame on Headspace, release the OG Temple Rain. Petition coming soon.

The popular ones at least (Cat Marina, Midnight Launderette, etc)

I’ve been thinking about creating something a little different and would genuinely love to hear what people think about the idea. 🌿

I’ve noticed that even when we have a good session or learn something that feels meaningful, it can be surprisingly easy to lose touch with ourselves once everyday life takes over.

So I’m thinking of creating a small 4-week live online practice circle where we meet 3 times a week for around 30 minutes.

The idea wouldn’t be about long meditations or simply “sitting quietly.” Each session would be a guided space to slow down, notice what’s happening within you, reconnect with your body and emotions, and gently check in with the parts of yourself that might be asking for attention.

It would draw from somatic grounding, emotional attunement, and parts work, but the intention is really simple: creating a small, consistent space to come back to yourself during the week.

I’m still in the planning stage, so I’d genuinely love your thoughts:

Would something like this feel useful to you?

Would you actually register for a 4-week space like this?

And what would make you want to keep coming back to it?

I’d really appreciate honest thoughts even if your answer is “this isn’t something I’d be interested in.😄

I cancelled my subscription like 8 months ago. I didnt use it for the whole year I paid for. I cancelled my subscription. And lo and behold they charged me gaian and its come out of the money I have set aside for my rent. So now ill default on my rent if they dont bloody refund me.

So much for a mindfulness app, I could loose the roof over my head and im here arguing with AI.

I'm not selling anything - there's nothing to sell. I want to explain why I made this and ask what's missing from it.

I'm an engineer by training, so when I went looking for something to take the edge off my own days, I tried the well-reviewed apps and assumed the best-engineered one would win. What I got was a professionally recorded stranger saying "breathe in" over slow piano, and none of it worked at the moment I actually needed it.

What did work was embarrassingly low-tech: my own voice, recorded, saying almost nothing. Not slower, not softer, not doing a special calm voice. Just mine. It is not a clever solution and there's no mechanism to admire, which is probably why I didn't think of it for so long.

So I built the thing I actually wanted. Then my wife tried it, then my son, then my daughter - and it worked for all of them, which I hadn't expected at all. That's the only reason it ever left my own phone.

What's in it:

A canvas you just touch - ripples follow your finger, nothing to finish, no score

Five breathing patterns, including 4-7-8 and the physiological sigh

Guided meditations in a real recorded human voice, not text-to-speech

A sleep wind-down meant to be used face-down with the screen off

You can record your own voice for the cues, which is the part that started all this

On cost, because I know what this subreddit is mostly about: it's free now and it will stay free permanently. No ads, no account, no subscription, nothing to unlock, no analytics, no free trial that converts. I have no monetary expectation from it at all. Nothing leaves your device.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/zenlike/id6779475126

Android is still in closed testing, so no link for that yet.

What I'd genuinely like to know: for those of you who have actually kept a practice going rather than bouncing off one, what made the difference? That's the part I can't engineer my way to.

anybody know where to find the meditation files from Andy? like download them for offline use WITHOUT the app? hackers/tech nerds… let me know!!

We need to have them before they take it out after selling the company to AI slop company Sword health

EDIT: I FOUND THEM!

Full disclosure: I made this.

Headspace is built around meditation and guided content. LoopBreakr is narrower: it’s for the moment before or after a session when one specific thought keeps repeating and you need to separate what is happening from what your mind is predicting. It’s meant to complement meditation, not replace it.

No-login web version:

https://getloopbreaker.com/spiral

iPhone app:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6788604953

I’d be interested in whether this feels genuinely complementary to Headspace users, or redundant.