How Liven quietly changed how I deal with myself
I found Liven when I was honestly in a mess — I’d just gone through a breakup, work was eating me alive, and I couldn’t even tell what I actually wanted anymore. I kept bouncing between “I’m fine” and “I hate everything.”
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Yeah, I totally relate to that drifting feeling. For me it got really bad during the lockdowns — that slow burn of disconnection from yourself when routines change but your brain stays stuck on the same old patterns. I was doing okay externally, but inside I was constantly second-guessing myself, like I couldn’t trust my own reactions anymore. I started writing things down, trying different journaling apps and breathing tools, but most of them just made me feel like I was failing at "being mindful." What finally helped wasn’t one big shift, it was small stuff. Like learning how to name what I was feeling without judging it. Sounds basic, but it’s weirdly hard. I’ve been using this liven app that breaks things down in a way that actually feels doable. Like, it doesn’t throw a thousand self-help quotes at you — instead, it kind of guides you through identifying your needs and where your boundaries are getting messy. The part that helped me the most is when it pointed out how my inner critic was basically running the show. Once I started noticing the tone I used to talk to myself, I could actually start changing it. Not perfectly, not overnight, but enough to feel like I was living in my own head again, instead of just surviving it.