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

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 skillsStacks of worksheetsJust today's one skillAcronyms to decodeEveryday wordsRead it, forget itSee it, copy it, try itMore controlMore warmth and connection
Loosen the grip. Let people in.
Take the free Grip Check: find your grip words in 2 minutesStart 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
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