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Friends With Your Mind

The daily mindfulness app for people with busy minds
The daily mindfulness app for people with busy minds
  • Interrupt compulsive thoughts with guided audio practices
  • Build nervous system resilience and self-compassion
  • A daily plan that responds to how you actually think and feel
Lynn Fraser
Created byLynn Fraser
Author and mindfulness teacher with 25+ years helping adults transform anxiety and self-criticism into calm and self-trust
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You’re more aware of anxious thoughts, but still reacting with self-criticism. Try this self-compassion pause before responding to your thoughts.

Today's Guided Practice

6 min • Calming the Mind

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Come home to a calmer mind

Each day, a short practice that meets you where you are and helps your mind settle.

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Welcome yourself with kindness

Returning to practice is powerful

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Interrupt anxious compulsive thinking

Use simple, effective tools to break the cycle of worry and rumination so you can feel more grounded and present as you move through your day.

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Reframe your thoughts with compassion

Practice daily techniques that help you reduce self-criticism and catastrophic thinking through greater kindness and understanding.

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Build lasting emotional resilience

Strengthen your ability to handle stress and uncertainty, so you can meet challenges with more steadiness.

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A gentle guide for your mind. Every day.

Lynn Fraser guides you through daily practices to help you ease fear, build strength in your mind, and lessen the power of anxious thought.

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Morning Check-In

Thought Spiral Tracker

Today's Guided Practice

6 min • Calming the Mind

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Evening Reflection

A full support system for your real life

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A daily plan built around your patterns

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Move through your day with support to lessen anxiety and increase happiness.

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Guided audio practices to calm your mind and body

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Powerful guided audio practices to interrupt worry and reduce stress.

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Body-based practices to help you feel grounded

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Learn simple, body-based exercises to ground yourself and build emotional resilience every day.

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Reflective prompts for deeper self-understanding

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Explore daily questions and journaling prompts to foster self-compassion and insight.

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Thought reframing tools to break anxious loops

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Practice shifting perspective with interactive tools to challenge and reframe unhelpful thoughts.

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Expert guidance from 25+ years of mindfulness teaching

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Benefit from proven techniques and compassionate support rooted in years of real-world experience helping people heal.

Created by Lynn Fraser

After 25 years of teaching meditation,I know how our mind and nervous system work. This is the daily support that changes how you relate to your mind.

Lynn Fraser

Lynn Fraser

Author and mindfulness teacher with 25+ years helping adults transform anxiety and self-criticism into calm and self-trust

If your mind feels like it works against you more than it works for you, you're not alone, and you are in the right place.

As a teenager, I often felt unseen and unsupported. I didn't reach out for connection because my experience was that no one would help me. I carried those beliefs into adulthood without realizing how much they were shaping me.

When I began meditating more than 30 years ago, I started to see how much I was suffering through catastrophic thinking and ruminating. What began to change everything was letting go of shame and learning to meet my mind with compassion and understanding.

Over the past 25 years I've taught these practices to thousands of people through courses, classes, and guided audio programs, and wrote Friends With Your Mind to make them accessible to anyone. I've worked with people like me who struggled to stay present in daily life, and others who felt hijacked by anxiety or a harsh inner critic.

You are not broken. Your mind learned to protect you, and now you can learn something new.

I offer you a structured, gentle daily practice that meets you where you are, whether your mind races with worry, you're fed up with your inner critic shaming you, or you're just beginning to notice how your thoughts affect you.

My hope is that you come to feel ease and at home in your own mind.

What you'll build through your practice

Strengthen your sense of inner stability
Interrupt spirals of worry and rumination
Reframe self-critical thoughts with compassion
Soothe your nervous system in stressful moments
Build habits for steady, lasting calm
Reflect with prompts that foster self-understanding
Cultivate self-trust and gentle self-acceptance
Build lasting emotional resilience
Like having a knowledgeable, caring guide in your pocket

Support that adapts to you, every day

Gentle, structured, and built around you. No two practices are exactly the same.

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Interrupting the Spiral: Guided Thought Reframe

Personalized Practice • 12 min

This practice helps you notice anxious thought loops as they arise and gently shift your relationship to them. Guided audio and reflective prompts are tailored to your current mood and thought patterns, supporting calm and self-compassion.

What to do
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Grounding Breath
2 min
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Notice the Spiral
3 min
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Gentle Reframe
4 min
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Compassionate Reflection
3 min
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How it works

Cultivate a calmer mind

It only takes a few minutes to get started

Onboarding Quiz

Which pattern do you most want to shift?

Worrying about the future
Overthinking past events
Harsh self-criticism
Feeling stuck in anxious loops
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Complete the onboarding quiz

Share your main challenges, like worry or overthinking, so the app can personalize your daily support and guidance.

Your Plan

Week 1

Foundations of Mindful Awareness

Identifying Thought Patterns
Grounding in the Present
Interrupting Spirals
Gentle Self-Reflection
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Building Emotional Resilience

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Get your personalized plan

Receive a structured plan with guided audio practices and reflection tools tailored to your unique thought patterns and needs.

Today, April 30

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Morning Check-In

Reflection • 2 min

Thought Spiral Tracker

Activity • 3 min

Calming the Mind

Practice • 6 min

Evening Reflection

Journal • 4 min

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Begin your daily practice

Each day, a short practice meets you where you are with guided audio, gentle reflection, and tools to interrupt anxious thinking.

Your Progress

Daily Practices

21 total

+7 in the last week

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Calm Minutes

54 min

+18 in the last week

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Notice what's shifting

Watch your mindset shift as you develop steadiness, self-trust, and a more compassionate relationship with your thoughts.

It only takes 2 minutes to get started

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What happens when your mind becomes your friend

In their own words - from the Insight Timer community

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Lynn's the real deal.
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Dr Rick Hanson
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Working with Lynn has given me a deep appreciation for her remarkable ability to translate complex concepts in neuroscience and trauma into simple, practical tools for safety, regulation, and transformation.
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Alyson Raskin PhD
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Lynn has a way of speaking that reflects much of my experience - I'm starting to feel some space around very old feelings by using her practices.
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Diane
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Thank you, Lynn. I recognize in each lesson so many of the things I automatically do that may have been a survival response in the past, but aren’t helpful anymore. I appreciate your kind and gentle teachings so very much.
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Jen A
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All your work is such a blessing 🙏 Thank you for sharing all your knowledge. You really are a gift to this world ❤️🙏
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Arlene
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Lynn’s guided meditations are thought provoking & inspiring. After her sessions I always feel calmer and relaxed.
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Judy Goldstein
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I turn to Lynn's guided meditations when my mind is spinning and I'm tense from being sick or injured. My nervous system is soothed and I am so grateful for her guidance and grounding voice.
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Alison
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When I hear Lynn’s voice I immediately relax. She is a dear friend I’ve never met. I know she will guide me to a moment’s peace.
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ready when you are

Your mind can feel like home. It starts with one small practice, today.

Whenever you're ready. The app meets you where you are.