THE APP
Targeted programs for how your nervous system learned to protect you.
Each 30-day program addresses a specific pattern — not a diagnosis, but a way your body learned to respond.
Cathexis is an app that helps you notice the patterns your nervous system has learned, starting with sensation, so you can see what keeps repeating and why.
The classification has sixteen territories.
The live app ships nine 30-day programs.
NINE PROGRAMS • LIVE
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Anxiety, hypervigilance, panic
Your nervous system learned to predict danger — and that prediction runs even when you're safe. This program helps you notice the body signals that precede the anxiety spiral, understand why your brain keeps generating them, and build new predictions through practice.
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Low mood, numbness, fatigue
When the world felt like too much for too long, your nervous system learned to turn down the volume. This program works with the heaviness and flatness — not against it — helping you notice what activation feels like when it starts to return.
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Grief, yearning, hollowness
Grief is not a problem to solve. It's a separation signal your nervous system generates when someone or something essential is gone. This program helps you be with that signal — the ache, the hollowness, the waves — and build capacity to carry it without being consumed.
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Flooding, overwhelm
Everything arrives at once. Sensation, context, emotion — undifferentiated and loud. This program helps you slow the flood enough to notice its components: where it lives in your body, what quality it has, what your nervous system is trying to process all at once.
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When the past keeps arriving in the present
Your nervous system learned that danger could arrive without warning, and it stays ready. This program helps you notice when the past is driving current-moment activation — and build the capacity to stay present when your body says otherwise.
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Torn between opposing truths
Two things feel true and they contradict each other. Your body holds both. This program helps you notice the somatic signature of being pulled in two directions — and build the capacity to stay with contradiction without forcing a resolution your nervous system isn't ready for.
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Chronic pain, body image, disordered eating
Your relationship with your body has become complicated. Pain predictions, avoidance patterns, or a disconnect between what you see and what you feel. This program works directly with the body as it is — building a different relationship with sensation, not trying to fix or escape it.
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Burnout, chronic stress, system exhaustion
You've been running at capacity for so long that exhaustion feels normal. This program helps you notice what your nervous system does under sustained pressure — the bracing, the numbness, the collapse — and build practices that interrupt the pattern before it completes.
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Identity shifts, life transitions
Something fundamental changed — a role, a relationship, a sense of who you are — and your nervous system hasn't caught up. This program helps you notice the disorientation in your body and build new predictions that match who you're becoming.
CRISIS • ALWAYS FREE
Two programs for the hardest moments. Both free. Always.
Still Here
7-day somatic safety practice for when staying feels difficult.
New Ground
7-day practice for when your world changed without warning.
No trial. No limits. No subscription required.
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SIX LEVELS
1 Noticing Your Body
Days 1-5
2 Building Regulation
Days 6-10
3 Recognizing Patterns
Days 11-15
4 Testing Predictions
Days 16-20
5 Integration
Days 21-25
6 Independence
Days 26-30
Available to everyone, always. No subscription required.
FOUR FREE PRACTICES
Extended Exhale
Exhale-dominant breathing to shift toward calm.
Five Senses Grounding
Anchoring attention in what you can see, hear, touch, smell and taste.
Foundation Body Scan
Guided attention through your body, building your observer.
Box Breathing
Equal-phase breathing to build steady regulation.
Always free.
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