About Flexi

About Flexi: small skills for people who hold on too tight.

Flexi is a skills app for perfectionists, people pleasers and anyone who holds on too tight: small everyday skills, taught by Flexi in seconds, and nothing you write is ever saved.

If you are the one who checks it three times, says yes when you mean no and tells everyone you are fine, you are in the right place. Small skills should be close at hand in the moments that matter, not left in a book on the shelf.

Flexi in a Totally Flawsome shirt, painting with a brush and a color palette
The Flexi story

Watch the Flexi story.

About a minute. Flexi holds it all together, then learns one small skill to loosen the grip. No sound needed.

Hi. I'm Flexi. I used to hold on too tight, too.
The Flexi story

About a minute. No sound needed.

What makes it different

Why Flexi is different

Made for overcontrol

Built for perfectionism, people pleasing, always being the strong one, needing to be sure and holding it all in, and the loneliness that comes with them.

Private by design

Nothing you write is ever saved. There is no account to make, and your data is never sold.

Tiny skills, one friendly guide

86 skills, each with a plain name, three short steps and a Flexi pose you will remember. Most take under a minute.

Practice with people

The Flexi! card game turns the skills into game night with your Peeps, or a quiet round on your own.

Flexi is a self help skills app. It is not therapy and not a crisis service. In the US, 988 is a separate national service you can call or text any time.

Loosen the grip. Let people in.

That is the whole idea, one small skill at a time.

Jodie O'Malley, LICSW, founder of Flexi
Meet the founder

Made for people who need to take the brakes off.

Jodie O'Malley, LICSW

Jodie has spent more than 20 years with capable, caring people who already had plenty of control. They planned, checked, held it in and said yes. Most skills teach you to hit the brakes, so they handed these people more of what they already had.

So Jodie flipped it.

  • Hour long modulesTwo minute skills
  • Stacks of worksheetsJust today's one skill
  • Acronyms to decodeEveryday words
  • Read it, forget itSee it, copy it, try it
  • More controlMore warmth and connection

Loosen the grip. Let people in.

Take the free Grip Check: find your grip words in 2 minutes
Start here

Start with the free Grip Check.

Two minutes. It names the patterns you lean on and points you to the skills that fit. Then get the Flexi app for a new skill every day, $99 a year or $9.99 a month.

  • Saves nothing you write
  • Paid safely through Apple, Google or Shopify
  • Written by a licensed clinical social worker
Contact

Talk to us.

Questions about the app, the shop, partnerships or press. We reply within two working days.

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