Confidante

The essential companion for your mindfulness journey

Co-created with Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teachers, Confidante supports your practice both during and beyond the 8-week MBSR program
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Guided journaling to observe thoughts, moods and sensations
Expert MBSR interaction
Real time guidance helps you observe thoughts, emotions and sensations without judgment
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Practice mindful awareness beyond formal meditation
Mindfulness themes to build resilience
MBSR Attitudes
Identify key MBSR Attitudes expressed in your reflections
Name your emotions with Confidante's Feelings Wheel
Decode Your Emotions
Name emotions with precision—allowing you to respond rather than react
Spot recurring topics
Observe Patterns
See recurring topics and triggers that influence your thoughts, emotions and sensations
Speak directly with ConfidanteListen to Confidante speak to you
Speak Your Truth
Give voice to your lived experience and unburden yourself anytime
See what moves you over time
Keep track of your emotional journey and smooth your peaks and valleys over time
Mood meter chartMood chart to keep track of your mood over time
What Our Users Say
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The mindfulness wisdom of Confidante has been far more profound than I expected.
Melissa, Confidante User
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Your journal is protected from day one

Trust is the foundation upon which we are built. Just like you, we use Confidante every day. To keep data private, we use the following industry-best security practices.
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State-of-the-art encryption
Your data is safeguarded in transit with TLS and at rest through RDS AES-256.
Secured with AWS
Secured with AWS
Confidante is built on Amazon Web Services, which supports 143 security standards and compliance certifications.

Empirically Supported Benefits of Mindfulness

What Are the Benefits
of Mindfulness?
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Mindfulness benefits
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Emotional Regulation
“There is evidence that mindfulness helps develop effective emotion regulation in the brain.”
Decreased Reactivity
“Research has demonstrated that mindfulness enables people to become less reactive.”
Relationship Benefits
“Evidence indicates that mindfulness predicts relationship satisfaction, ability to respond constructively to relationship stress, skill in identifying and communicating emotions to one’s partner, amount of relationship conflict, negativity, and empathy.”
Personal Well Being Benefits
“Mindfulness has been shown to enhance functions associated with self-insight, morality, intuition, and fear modulation, and improve well-being and reduce psychological distress.”
Increased Mental Clarity
"Mindfulness has been shown to develop increased information processing speed, decreased task effort, and having fewer thoughts that are unrelated to the task at hand."
Evidence-Based
Effects of Journaling
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Effects of Journaling
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Increased Well Being
“Online Positive Affect Journaling (PAJ) is associated with decreased mental distress and increased well-being.
Less Depression & Anxiety
“Online Positive Affect Journaling (PAJ) was also associated with less depressive symptoms and anxiety after 1 month and greater resilience after the first and second month, relative to usual care.”
Increased Resilience & Social Integration
“Online PAJ was associated with higher perceived resilience…study results demonstrate greater self-reported social integration in the intervention group relative to controls at the end of the second month.”
What Our Users Say
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Using Confidante  guides me to notice my thoughts, moods, and sensations in a way that's easier than meditation.
Andrew, Confidante User
Gaining inner wisdom

We created Confidante for the well-being of all people everywhere

To support all MBSR practitioners, we will always provide a free version of Confidante. 
The Confidante Scholarship Program
The Confidante Scholarship Program offers Confidante Thrive for those who truly cannot afford it - no questions asked.
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Giving Back
Confidante commits to donating at least 5% of our profits annually to the Top Charities Fund at GiveWell. Learn more about their evidence-based charity evaluation at GiveWell.org.
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Designed for the well-being of all people everywhere.
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