Apps – love them or hate them, they are here to stay, and they can certainly make our lives better. Here are some for you to check out relating to mindfulness, meditation, and mental health.
I have not tried all these apps, and have no vested interest nor affiliation to declare.
1. Aura: Meditation & Mindfulness
Your all-in-one app for mental wellness Discover thousands of personalized mindfulness meditations, stories & sleep tales, life coaching, CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy), hypnosis, music & sounds, and much more. ** Why Aura? Most self-care apps provide one-size-fits-all libraries of generic meditation tracks that don’t work for you. Aura brings together the world’s best coaches, therapists, and storytellers with diverse expertise and creates a magical experience just for you. As their sexpert, I contribute exclusive audio content about intimacy, relationship, sexuality, and more! Get your 30-day free trial link here! |
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2. Breathe+ Simple Breath Trainer Breathe+ is a beautifully simple way to visualize your breathing. Use Breathe+ for daily relaxation, meditation or breath training. “Relax, de-stress, and find a little peace” – LifeHacker.com “Relax Both Body and Mind With Breathe+” -AppAdvice.com “Breathe+ let’s you take a break” -Mashable.com |
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3. Breethe: Meditation & Sleep **Must Have App** – Apple. Sleep better. Relax more. Feel Happier. We have the world’s best meditations, music, hypnotherapy, nature sounds, masterclasses, and more. Rather than making meditation and wellness more items on your to-do list, Breethe makes it easily fit into your everyday life — and we try to do it with a sense of humor. We want to be the best ‘peace’ of your day ;). |
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4. buddhify: meditation on the go Buddhify is here to help you bring more calm, clarity and kindness to all parts of your life. Whether you’re looking to reduce stress and anxiety, or get a better night’s sleep buddhify has easy-to-follow guided meditations to help you live happier and healthier. No need to find the time for a formal meditation session everyday, we’ll show you how to bring mindfulness to all parts of your life with exercises for whatever you’re doing and wherever you are – from travelling, taking a break at work or going to sleep. We’ll help you find calm in any situation. |
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5. Calm
Calm is the #1 app for sleep and meditation. Discover a happier, healthier you through our meditations, Sleep Stories, music, and more. Calm is for anyone, whether you’re brand new to meditation or a seasoned expert. It’s also for anyone who needs a mental break, a soothing sound, or a peaceful night’s rest. Our guided meditations are available in lengths of 3 to 25 minutes, so you can choose the perfect length to fit your schedule. |
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6. Happify: for Stress & Worry
Happify’s science-based activities and games can help you overcome negative thoughts, stress, and life’s challenges. Our techniques are developed by leading scientists and experts who’ve been studying evidence-based interventions in the fields of positive psychology, mindfulness, and cognitive behavioral therapy for decades. |
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7. Headspace: Mindful Meditation
Meditate and sleep soundly. Headspace is your guide to practicing mindfulness in your everyday life. Learn how to relax, manage stress, and focus your energy to become more centered and well rested. Create a calm and positive environment with Headspace. Headspace offers guided meditation, sleep meditation, and breathing exercises. Learn mindfulness skills from world-class experts like former monk and Headspace co-founder Andy Puddicombe. Choose from hundreds of guided meditations on a new topic each day: anxiety, focus, relaxation, and more! |
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8. iBreathe – Relax and Breathe Showcased in Healthline’s best Meditation Apps for 2020! iBreathe is a simple yet powerful app to help guide you through deep breathing exercises. Whether you are struggling with stress, anxiety, insomnia, or are trying to meditate and relax, iBreathe provides an easy-to-use, beautifully designed user interface. Unlike other apps, iBreathe is designed with simplicity in mind and does not contain any bloat or clutter. |
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9. I am – Daily Affirmations
How many negative thoughts have been endlessly repeating in your mind? Daily affirmations help rewire our brains, build self esteem and change negative thought patterns. Empower yourself by verbally affirming your dreams and ambitions. Choose from many daily intentions and set reminders to be delivered throughout the day. Positive affirmations not only do they help make major shifts in your mindset they also serve as prompts and daily reminders on what you are truly capable of, making sure you have an amazing day, everyday. |
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10. INSCAPE
INSCAPE Meditation App: Reduce stress & anxiety, improve focus, and sleep better using daily mindfulness meditations, breathing exercises, music, and sounds. The app includes personalized content recommendations based on your goals, time of the day, and experience. Make meditation and mindfulness part of your health, fitness, and wellness routine with INSCAPE guided meditation. |
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12. Insight Timer – Meditation App The number 1 free meditation app. Guided meditations and talks led by the world’s top meditation and mindfulness experts, neuroscientists, psychologists and teachers from Stanford, Harvard, the University of Oxford and more. Music tracks from world-renowned artists. Join millions learning to meditate on Insight Timer to help calm the mind, reduce anxiety, manage stress, sleep deeply and improve happiness. |
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Petit BamBou is a multilingual meditation and mindfulness app with over 2,000 guided meditation sessions in 6 languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Dutch.
Learn simple, practical techniques alongside certified and experienced instructors
Discover and practice meditation developed by dedicated and renowned experts. You will find guided meditations ranging from 3 to 20 minutes allowing everyone, beginner or experienced, to progress in their practice at their own pace. A wide range of free content, accessible to all with no requirement to subscribe. |
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14. Mindshine: Mental Health Coach
Happiness is not a choice, it’s a practice. We show you how. Mindshine is designed to help you train your mind holistically and find balance in life using the best tools from psychology, neuroscience, and mindfulness. In short daily micro-steps, you’ll acquire powerful new routines that bring you closer to your personal growth goals. Be guided through proven exercises of meditation, journaling, visualization, gratitude, self-compassion that are super easy to understand and leave you with a strong positive feeling of confidence and happiness. |
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15. Moodfit: Mental Health Fitness
Everyone can benefit from improving and maintaining the fitness of their mental health. If you’re struggling, Moodfit can help you move you toward thriving. If you’re thriving, Moodfit can help you build the resilience to keep you there in the face of life’s adversities. Moodfit provides the most comprehensive set of tools for good mental health, and helps you understand what brings your mood up and down. |
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16. Oak – Meditation & Breathing Oak helps you decompress by transforming your meditation practice from an experiment into a habit. We support you from your first session to your 500th, with mindful, loving-kindness, and sleep meditations as well as unguided sessions and breathing exercises. Individualize your meditations by duration, and customize with silence or calming background sounds. Oak tracks your progress and encourages you to continue building a healthy meditation practice. |
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17. Sanvello Whether you’re feeling anxious, lonely, overwhelmed, or just burned out, Sanvello will meet you where you’re at. Think of it as your feel-better toolkit, including therapy, coaching, coping techniques, meditations, and goal and mood tracking, designed by experts to help you feel better. Best of all, your Sanvello journey is customizable to you. The app checks in with how you’re feeling so you can track your emotions and progress over time. As patterns are identified, Sanvello will provide customized tools, rooted in cognitive behavioral therapy, to keep you on the path to feeling better. |
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18. Simple Habit Sleep, Meditation Simple Habit is the #1 app for your wellness & sleep recommended by top mental health experts. Try Simple Habit for free today and join over 5 million people on this life-changing journey. Sleep better and be happier in your life, marriage, parenthood, work, and health. Our wellness & sleep therapy sessions offer guided mindfulness & meditation, daily motivation, guided sleep sessions and coaching by world-renowned experts, personalized for the way you live your life. We’ll help you feel less stressed, get better sleep and be your best self whether you have 5 minutes in the morning, 20 minutes during your commute or need to fall asleep quickly. Start your Simple Habit today and live better every day. |
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19. stoic.
Stoic can help you live a happier and more tranquil life. You will learn stoicism philosophy and how to cope with stress. Get your daily mental health tracker companion for mood tracking, journaling, meditations, and reflection. it analyzes your emotive influences and gives you insights on how to be happier and more productive. |
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20. Stop Breathe Think: Meditation Learn to meditate and be more mindful with the award-winning Stop Breathe Think, formerly known as MyLife Meditation. Stop Breathe Think is a meditation and mindfulness app that offers daily wellness check-ins and suggests activities personalized to how you feel. Learn to maintain perspective through your mental and physical wellness journey. Develop simple habits so you can get to a better place in just a few minutes a day. |
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21. Ten Percent Happier Meditation
Want to sleep better, be more mindful, improve your relationships, and become just about ten percent happier? This is the app for you. Our guided meditations, videos, talks, and sleep content will help you build (or boost) your meditation practice, and stick with it. |
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22. Tide – Meditation & Sleep
Tide aims at physical and mental care through integrating sleep, meditation, relax, and focus into an app. Inspired by traveling, nature, and meditation, we have been providing massive audios including natural soundscapes and mindfulness practices. To help you relieve stress, stay focused, relax with mindfulness, and better sleep at nights, Tide allows you to get away from the fast-paced life, and enter into peaceful and calm moments. |
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23. Waking Up: Guided Meditation Discover daily mindfulness and meditation with Sam Harris—neuroscientist, philosopher, and best-selling author—and explore the theory behind meditation practice. Daily guided meditation sessions, lessons on zen, the stoic path, on-demand mindfulness sessions, as well as a practice timer will build your understanding, balance your mind, make your practice shine, and help turn meditation into a new habit. For inquiring and curious minds, learn the related science, philosophy, and ethics in short audio lessons with Sam and through his extended conversations with other influential meditation teachers, scientists, and scholars. |
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24. Whil: Mindfulness & Meditation While mindfulness and meditation training is available to professionals through their employer, educator, or other organization. It is not currently available direct to individuals. This goal-based digital training system is focused on helping adults and teens to be healthier, happier, and more engaged through programs for stress resilience, wellbeing and high performance. |
About Dr. Martha Tara Lee
Surrounded by friends who were sexually inhibited and struck by dire lack of positive conversations around sex and sexuality in Singapore, Dr. Martha Tara Lee set out to make a positive difference in embarking on her doctorate in human sexuality before launching Eros Coaching in 2009. Today, she remains dedicated to working with individuals and couples who wish to lead self-actualised and pleasure-filled lives.
She also holds certificates in counselling, coaching and sex therapy, and her fourth degree – a Masters in Counselling in May 2018. In practice since 2009, she is the only certified sexuality educator and certified sexuality educator supervisor by the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) in Singapore.
Often cited in the media, Dr. Lee is the appointed Clinical Sexologist for Singapore Cancer Society. She was recognised as one of ‘Top 50 Inspiring Women Under 40′ by Her World in July 2010, and one of ‘Top 100 Inspiring Women’ by CozyCot in March 2011. She has published four books: Love, Sex and Everything In-Between, Orgasmic Yoga, From Princess to Queen and {Un}Inhibited.
Martha works with individuals and couples in private coaching sessions, and conducts her own workshops. She takes prides in making sure all her workshops are also fun, educational, and sex-positive. This comes easily to her because even though she is extremely dedicated and serious about her work, she fundamentally believes that sex is meant to be fun, wonderful, amazing and sacred. As such, this serious light-heartedness has shone through again and again. For her full profile, click here. Email her here.