Mindiful vs Trigger Stop Usage & Stats
Mindiful is a progressive, enriching, and entertaining children's mental health software platform comprised of early learning mental health exercises, insightful tools - like our journaling canvas, and analytics; all set in an immersive storybook interface.
Great for both at-home use with parents/guardians or for use with teachers/clinicians.
Early-Stage mental health resources for a better future!
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CLOUD EXERCISES:
Practice early-stage mental health exercises.
-Bird Breathing: An introduction to breathing exercises.
Paced Breathing: Learn to control and slow the pace of breath by following the bird’s wings up and down as you breathe in and out.
Diaphragm Breathing: Learn to breathe fuller and deeper breaths by expanding the belly (diaphragm) like a beach ball.
Nasal Inhale/Oral Exhale: Learn to breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth.
-Monkey Moods: An introduction to emotional intelligence.
Children are given two different style prompts to share their feelings. The first, a present and reflective prompt on how they currently feel. The second, to learn about different emotions and associate times when they have felt them.
Emotion Learning Photobooth: Visually practice emotions with fun animal masks and face prompts.
-Sloth Stretches: An introduction to stretching & spatial awareness.
Children view simple short visual clip demonstrations of a sloth stretching.
Our stretches act as an easy and fun introduction to the mind-body connection and exploring how one moves/takes up space.
-Reptile Relaxation: An introduction to relaxation & meditation.
Sleepy Snake Snooze: Uses tension-relaxation techniques to encourage restful sleep/naps.
The Grateful Gecko: Encourages relaxation through guided thoughts of gratitude.
Frog’s Favorite Things: Uses positive memory recall techniques to relax and calm.
MY FIRST JOURNAL:
A pre-literacy age solution to early-stage journaling with our journaling canvas. Suggested to be used for learning early-stage introspection and as an alternative to ‘time out.’
Children are encouraged to submit daily journal entries in 'My First Journal.' This is a safe, calm space for kids to freely communicate how they feel.
EARLY JOURNALING EASY AS 1-2-3!
1. Drawing
2. Audio Recording
3. Selection of Emotion (e.g., happy, sad, etc.).
-Selection of Journal Prompts:
"Today I feel..."
"I am grateful for..."
"I got upset because..."
"I like myself because..."
"My dream is to..."
"I showed kindness when..."
INSIGHT & ANALYTICS:
The analytic insights provided by Mindiful™ are a great tool to see how a child may be feeling, even if those feelings have not been directly expressed.
Our 'Parent Portal' analytics are accessible from the 'Home' screen and highlight key points of information to help monitor and improve aspects of a child's mental health. Reports show exercise usage/areas to focus on or that may be overlooked. Our calendar and mood trend logs make it easy to see over time what is the most common mood and patterns in mood trends.
Available Reports:
-Overview
-Moods
-Exercise Usage
-Journal
The Reports/Journals are available for download.
KEY BOOK: Earn & collect the keys to positivity! A simple incentivization model to encourage kids to keep up their progress by practicing exercises. We encourage the attachment of 'real-life' impactful goals to unlocking our 'Keys to Positivity."
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We at Mindiful™ believe proactive children's mental health resources should be universally accessible and become a natural part of early education. Learn more about upcoming features, have access to helpful user guides, give feedback/requests and join our community at mindiful.io!
Why try to learn mental health retroactively as an adult? Mindiful™ is the foundational proactive solution.
Good habits start young.
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- Apple App Store
- Free
- Education
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When a young child is triggered, whether a trauma trigger or an emotional button is pushed, a child can become unregulated and even exhibit challenging behaviors. Adults can support children to express the sensations in their body (I have butterflies in my stomach) and the emotions they are having (I feel scared) by using this application. If the child is at a loss of words or is not verbal, they can express themselves with the APP features which are primarily visual images used to communicate their internal state.
When a child has a trauma trigger, they can get transported unconsciously back in time and respond to a present moment as if they are reliving that dangerous situation. The trigger results in behaviors that look like Fight, Flight or Freeze. Helping support that child with a caring adult in the moment to regulate and communicate how they feel is important to healing and building resilience.
The use of the APP supports sensory and emotional identification and literacy which is the ability to identify, understand, and express sensations and/or feelings in the body and to express them in a healthy way.
Self-regulation and the ability to identify and communicate sensations and emotions may be difficult for a child when they are in fight, flight and freeze. With a trauma trigger it is common to lose the ability to communicate with words. Pointing or dragging sensory and feeling images to the body allow children another way to communicate to an adult how they feel without the use of words. This APP helps children identify and communicate sensations and emotions.
Examples of a trigger resulting in Fight, Flight or Freeze:
Fight- Example of flights bay be hurting others, yelling, screaming, hurting self, destroying property, argues, throws tantrums.
Flight- Examples of flight may be child hides, runs away, falls asleep in the middle of an activity, watches from a distance, covers face or ears, absorbed in their own thoughts.
Freeze- Examples may be child is unresponsive, spaced out, not able to verbalize with words, withdrawn, repetitive behaviors or daydreaming.
If a child is in Fight, Flight or Freeze mode in the moment resulting from a trauma history, they may be experiencing a terrifying memory from the past that was triggered in the present moment. They are unable to make sense of those feelings that rise up inside of their bodies and as a result the adult will see the child fighting, freezing or fleeing. A child who has a trauma trigger in the moment is usually scared or terrified and needs to feel safe by a caring and supportive adult. A caring, nurturing and responsive adult who has a relationship with the child could support them by introducing the sensations and feelings from this app and helping young child communicate during a fight, flight or freeze triggering event. Attuning to a child can help calm their arousal states and support their sensory system in regulating. This APP can also be used for children without a trauma history and is appropriate when a child is triggered by an emotional situation.
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- Free
- Education
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Mindiful VS. 
Trigger StopMarch 18, 2025