The Skills pathSome important steps on your guided path:
- Getting unstuck
- Mindfulness practices
- Racing thoughts and worry
- Labeling your emotions
- Making healthy choices
- Shame and self-compassion
- Grief or something more?
- Decisions under stress
Mind & skills
Find steadiness and perspective.
Divorce floods the mind: racing thoughts at 3 a.m., the same story on a loop, shame, worry, the urge to send the text. Skills that steady you in the moment, and loosen the grip of painful stories, make everything else possible.
Start with Mind & skillsOur approach.
Practical skills drawn from evidence-based approaches, including DBT, ACT, cognitive therapy and self-compassion research. Each one is taught in plain language and named where it comes from, so you can learn more. Short, readable pieces explain the research behind why each practice helps.
What happens inside
Short guides on making decisions when you can’t think straight, and trusting yourself again.
Ideas that make sense of it, like the window of tolerance, and the difference between numbing and treatment.
Built on the work of people who’ve spent their lives on this.
About 70 books, podcasts, talks and articles, from researchers on shame, self-compassion and resilience, cognitive and acceptance-based therapists, positive psychologists and meditation teachers, plus short research reads from university science centers and medical schools.
Not just a library.
Switchbacks notices what keeps coming up for you: the 2 a.m. spiral, the anger on handoff day, the voice that says it was all your fault. It suggests the skill and the reading that fit, then checks back on whether they helped, so what it suggests next gets better.
How the companion helps here.
In a hard moment, Sessions teaches the skill that fits, names where it comes from, and walks you through it. It follows up next time on whether it helped.
Start with Mind & skills