A note from me

My name is Alex.

I'm a former Google engineer & PM. During my burnout, depression and anxiety hit me hard. I tried everything my therapist suggested - EMDR, hypnosis, CBT, psychodrama. I downloaded every meditation app. Read all the threads. Nothing stuck.

I kept asking my therapist to just give me a plan. Tell me what to do each day and I'll do it. But she couldn't, because what works for one person doesn't work for another. That frustrated me as an engineer. I wanted structure.

After months of trial and error, I found two breathing exercises that worked for me. 20 minutes total followed by meditation. I did them every day for a month. Nothing fancy. But I kept doing them. Every single day.

Slowly, things shifted. The anxiety loosened. My focus started coming back. My nervous system started to regulate. After three months, I started feeling like myself again.

That's when I understood: mental fitness is like physical fitness. It takes finding the right exercises for your body, then doing them consistently. Not once in a while when you feel like it. Every day. Patience, persistence, discipline.

But there was something deeper I learned. All that searching, all that thinking about what would fix me, that was part of the problem. The body already knows how to regulate itself. We just forgot how to listen. Ancient traditions call these different things, but the message is the same: stop forcing, start allowing. In Taoism, it's "wei wu wei", doing by not doing. The practices work not because they add something new, but because they quiet the mind enough to let your natural wisdom emerge.

So I built Breathtaking. I mapped over 60 techniques between breathing, yoga, journaling and meditations. I created an algorithm that matches them to your personality type and what you need that week. You tell us how much time you have. We tell you exactly what to practice today.

No browsing through thousands of options. No guessing what might work. Just a simple daily practice designed for you. Because the truth lies not in more answers, but in less questions.

I'm not here to promise miracles. Some days you'll do your practice and feel nothing different. That's fine. That's normal. The effects build over time. Week by week. Month by month. Your patterns burn away. Your baseline shifts.

If you're ready to stop searching and start practicing, if you're willing to show up for yourself every day even when you don't feel like it, then start here. Pick your minutes. Do the practice. Come back tomorrow.

Mental fitness takes time, effort, and discipline. Just like physical fitness. But it's worth it.

That's why I built this. To help people like me skip the painful trial and error and get straight to what works.

-Alex