tiny notes for big feelings
You're not broken.
There's a reason this keeps happening.
Warm, research-backed stories about the emotional patterns nobody explained to you. Made in felt, paper, and thread.
One short voice note from Sage. Once a week. No advice you didn't ask for.
Sage. She's there when the video ends.
explanation, not prescription
The promise
Every video takes one invisible pattern — the kind you've carried quietly for years — and makes it make sense. No diagnosis. No five-step system. Just oh, that's why.
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Pick the question that's been living in your head.
Seven of them. Most people recognize at least three.
There's a name for it
Your brain didn't quit. It ran out of choices.
By the time you're staring at the menu, or the tabs, or the four almost-identical options, you may have already made forty decisions today. Research on decision fatigue suggests the ability to choose is a limited resource — and when it thins out, the brain doesn't choose badly. It stops choosing at all.
That's not indecision. That's a system protecting the last of its bandwidth.
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Something longer, every five days.
Story · Decision fatigue
Too Tired to Choose, or Too Afraid to Be Wrong?
The pause before a small decision isn't laziness. It's the cost of getting it wrong.
Short · Decision fatigue
Too Tired to Choose, or Too Afraid to Be Wrong?
The one-minute version of the same quiet loop.
Sticky Myths · One minute
Everyone Uses Both Sides of Their Brain
Left-brain, right-brain — the tidy story we all remember, and why it stuck.
Daily · one minute
Sticky Myths
A daily Short about something we all thought we knew — or thought we remembered. No gotcha. Just the quiet correction, and why the wrong version stuck.
we only use 10% of our brains
memory works like a recording
the last word is always a soft one
Meet Sage
The friend who read all the research so you didn't have to.
Sage is waiting at the end of every video. She won't lecture you, rush you, or hand you a system. She sits down, says one true thing, and lets you take what you need.
Inside the stories, you won't see faces — just small felt figures moving through the patterns. That's on purpose. It's easier to recognize yourself in someone who doesn't have a face yet.
“Come sit for a bit.”
Free · arriving October
Set it Down
A free app for the thought you've been carrying all day. Write it on a note, set it down, and let it be somewhere other than your head — especially through the holidays, when there's more to carry.
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the thing I said in 2019
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The Love Note
Once a week, a short voice note from Sage — written for where you actually are, not where a productivity book thinks you should be. Two minutes. Nothing to do afterward.
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Questions people actually ask
No — and it isn't a diagnosis either. These are research-backed explanations of common patterns, made to give you language and a little compassion. If something here lands hard, that's worth bringing to someone who can sit with you in it.