Guided mental wellness plans, a few minutes a day

What is a Mentis plan?

A Mentis plan is a short, structured path through one area of your life that's been hard lately. Instead of a hundred tips, you get nine chapters in a set order. Each chapter has a clear goal in your own words, like "I wake at the same time, even after a bad night" or "I can put a thought down and come back to it later."

Inside each chapter there's a mix of short reads, guided audio, journaling, small real-world steps and one keystone habit. The keystone is the one thing the chapter is really about. Mimi asks about it in your morning or evening check-in, and the chapter is done when the habit is holding on most days, not when you've ticked boxes.

How does a plan fit into a busy day?

Most days ask for 5–10 minutes. A typical day looks like this:

1. Morning check-in (2 minutes). Mimi asks how you're arriving into today and one question about your keystone habit.
2. Today's task (3–5 minutes). One short read, audio, journal prompt or small step from your chapter.
3. The habit itself. Something you do anyway, done slightly differently. Getting up at a set time. Closing the laptop with tomorrow's first step written down.
4. Evening reflection (optional, 1 minute). How it went, in a line or two. Mimi uses it to spot patterns.

Why small habits instead of big changes?

Because small habits are the ones that last. In a well-known study of how habits form in real life, a new daily behaviour took a median of 66 days to become automatic, and missing a single day didn't derail it (Lally et al., 2010). That's why every Mentis chapter builds one habit at a time, keeps going when you slip, and only moves on when the habit is holding.

What research are the plans built on?

Each plan is written from techniques that have been studied for decades, then turned into short, everyday steps:

• Sleep: stimulus control, a fixed wake time, sleep regularity, caffeine timing and the worry list, the core pieces of CBT for insomnia (CBT-I).
• Overthinking: worry postponement, rumination-focused techniques ("how, not why"), concreteness training, self-compassion and applied relaxation.
• Relationships: small, regular contact, reciprocity, saying the real thing and asking for help. Research keeps finding that people underestimate how welcome these are.
• Work stress: psychological detachment after work, single-tasking, workload clarity, sense of control and recognition, the factors burnout research points to again and again.

Which plan should I start with?

Start with the one that's costing you the most right now. If you're not sure, the first few check-ins will tell you. Mentis shows your Sleep, Social, Work and Lifestyle "skies" separately, so you can see which one has been stormy all week. Many people start with Sleep, because better nights make everything else easier to work on.

What if life gets in the way?

It will, and the plans expect it. If you miss a few days, your plan moves into a short recovery stretch with lighter tasks, then picks up where you left off. At the end of every plan, the last chapter, "Holding it", helps you choose which habits to keep and write your own early-warning sign and restart rule. You leave with a playbook, not a dependency on the app.