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Calm first. Then focus.

Regulate to Focus is a daily 5-minute practice program for ages 9 to 90 — body-first resets that help you feel ready before homework, work, or a hard task.

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Founding-member perk: choose $7/month, or go yearly for $63 — 12 months for the price of 9. No charge until doors open.

Education for self-regulation and focus, not treatment. Created by a licensed educational psychologist.

Why body-first

Get steady, then get started.

A steadier body makes starting easier.

Planning and starting rely on the brain's "front office." Research shows even mild, uncontrollable stress can quickly weaken it — so step one isn't "try harder." It's "get steady."

Arnsten, 2009

Five minutes a day is a real practice.

In a randomized one-month study, a daily 5-minute exhale-focused breathing practice improved mood and lowered breathing rate more than 5 minutes of mindfulness meditation.

Balban et al., 2023

Built for real life — kids and adults.

Short resets for the moment before a hard task: breathing, movement, grounding, and tiny first steps. Naming how you feel is a skill — putting feelings into words has been shown to reduce amygdala response to negative images.

Lieberman et al., 2007

Regulate to Focus is education for self-regulation and focus, not treatment, and does not diagnose or treat any condition. Created by a licensed educational psychologist at Whole Mind Psychological Services, San Jose, CA. In a crisis in the U.S., call or text 988.