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Why SelfSpoken

You're running on
someone else's code.

Every night before you sleep, a voice in your head replays your worst moments, your biggest fears, your harshest self-criticism. That voice is programming your subconscious — every single night. And you didn't choose the program. SelfSpoken lets you rewrite it — with personalized sessions designed specifically for you.

Every session is custom-built for you — your specific habits, your language, your pace. Not a generic recording. Not a one-size-fits-all script.

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Evidence-based. Personalized. Built for you.

Top performers don't just train harder — they train their minds.

Golf
Tiger Woods

Began working with a sports psychologist at age 13, using visualization and guided suggestion to enter what he called "the zone" — a state of absolute focus where distractions disappeared and every shot was rehearsed in his mind before it happened.

Swimming
Michael Phelps

Visualized every stroke of every race hundreds of times before stepping onto the blocks — his coach called it "playing the videotape." When his goggles flooded in the 2008 Olympic final, he didn't panic. He'd already rehearsed that exact scenario. He won gold and set a world record blind.

Aviation
U.S. Navy Blue Angels

Sit together before every flight, eyes closed, hands moving on invisible controls, mentally flying their entire routine at 700 mph with 18 inches between wingtips — a practice they call "chair flying."

Military
Navy SEALs

Their mental toughness program — built on visualization, self-talk, and arousal control — increased their pass rate by over a third. The same techniques used in the most demanding military training on Earth.

Gymnastics
Simone Biles

Mentally walks through every skill before she performs it. The most decorated gymnast in history doesn't just train her body — she rehearses every routine in her mind first.

Basketball
Kobe Bryant

Meditated daily and visualized every possible game scenario until his body ran on autopilot under pressure. His preparation wasn't just physical — it was mental architecture.

These aren't fringe techniques. They're the standard operating procedure for the world's highest performers. SelfSpoken gives you the same edge, personalized — sessions in your own voice, designed to shift the patterns keeping you stuck. Better sleep. Fewer cravings. Sharper focus. A quieter mind.

Built Around You

Every session is designed for your specific goals — your habits, your triggers, your language. Not generic scripts shared with thousands of other people.

On Your Schedule

No appointments. No waitlists. No commute. A full session whenever you need it — at home, before bed, on a break. Your schedule, your terms.

Completely Private

No sharing your deepest struggles with a stranger. Your sessions, your goals, your progress — all private. This is your space and nobody else's.

The Real Math

Your habits are already
costing you.

The price of not changing isn't just how you feel — it's money, time, and years of your life. SelfSpoken pays for itself before the first month is over.

Drink less

$3,500+/year

The average American spends over $3,500 a year on alcohol — before you count the medical costs, lost productivity, and the mornings you can't get back.

Cut the sugar

$16,000+/year

Type 2 diabetes costs the average patient over $16,000 annually in medical expenses. Sugar addiction isn't a small habit — it's one of the most expensive ones you can have.

Stop doom-scrolling

1,460 hours/year

The average person spends 4 hours a day on their phone. That's two full months of your life every year — time you could spend with people you love, on things that matter.

Sleep better

Priceless

Poor sleep drives anxiety, weight gain, weakened immunity, and brain fog. Fixing your sleep doesn't just feel better — it changes everything downstream.

A SelfSpoken subscription costs less than a single in-person appointment. The habits it helps you change can save you thousands — and give you back the time and health that money can't buy.

The Experience

The app transforms
with you.

SelfSpoken doesn't just play audio. The entire environment shifts as you enter your session — mirroring the natural transition from waking alertness into deep, focused receptivity.

Each session is wrapped in a rich, layered soundscape engineered to guide your mind downward through brainwave states — from the active beta of your day, through the calm awareness of alpha, and into theta: the slow, powerful frequency range where the subconscious opens up. Theta is where the brain is most receptive. It's the state between waking and sleep — where creativity surges, mental noise falls away, and new patterns take hold. It's the same state meditators spend years learning to access. SelfSpoken's soundscapes are designed to help you arrive there in minutes.

As the session deepens, the audio landscape evolves with you — textures shift, tones descend, ambient layers build and dissolve — creating an immersive environment that feels less like listening and more like drifting into a space that was built around you.

Your voice. Your goals. A sound environment tuned to the frequency where change happens.

Browse Mode
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Bright, warm, and easy to navigate. Browse sessions for sleep, confidence, anxiety, habits, and more.
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Deep immersion
The interface fades away. Living neural geometry drifts behind a calm, minimal player. The screen becomes an environment — not a tool.

The transition between modes is slow, smooth, and intentional — designed to mirror the natural process of entering a focused, receptive state. By the time your session begins, the shift has already started.

The Science

Your mind can argue with anyone.
Except you.

Decades of neuroscience research shows that personalized, self-relevant information receives privileged processing in the brain — creating deeper encoding, stronger retention, and greater receptivity to suggestion. Sessions built around your specific goals and language work differently than generic recordings.

261 Studies

Robust Clinical Evidence

A comprehensive meta-analysis of 49 systematic reviews covering 261 individual studies shows guided therapeutic techniques produce medium to large effect sizes for anxiety, pain, and behavior change — with participants improving over 79–84% of control groups.

Rosendahl et al., 2024 — Frontiers in Psychology
Valentine et al., 2019
73% Effective

Pain Reduction

Clinical trials demonstrate guided suggestion achieves a 73% pain reduction effectiveness rate, supported by research from Stanford University and the American Psychological Association. fMRI studies confirm measurable changes in brain activity during guided pain management.

Stanford University School of Medicine
American Psychological Association
What It Helps

Sessions built around your goals.

Every session is personalized to your specific situation — not a library of generic recordings. Here's what people are working on.

Habits & Substances

  • Smoking & nicotine
  • Alcohol dependency
  • Sugar addiction
  • Caffeine dependency
  • Gambling

Anxiety & Stress

  • Chronic worry
  • Panic attacks
  • Social anxiety
  • Public speaking fear
  • Phobias

Sleep

  • Insomnia
  • Racing thoughts at night
  • Poor sleep habits
  • Nightmare frequency

Performance

  • Procrastination
  • Lack of focus
  • Workout resistance
  • Creative blocks
  • Test & athletic performance

Food & Body

  • Emotional eating
  • Binge eating
  • Late-night snacking
  • Sugar cravings
  • Weight management

Digital Habits

  • Doom-scrolling
  • Phone addiction
  • Social media compulsion
  • Online shopping
  • Gaming addiction

Pain & Physical

  • Chronic pain management
  • Tension headaches
  • IBS symptoms
  • Nail biting
  • Teeth grinding

Self & Confidence

  • Imposter syndrome
  • Negative self-talk
  • Perfectionism
  • Low self-esteem
  • People-pleasing

SelfSpoken puts evidence-based guided techniques in your hands to support your personal growth and well-being. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any medical or psychological condition, and should not be used as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

Research Foundation

Built on peer-reviewed evidence.

Our approach synthesizes findings across guided therapeutic research, cognitive neuroscience, and behavioral psychology.

Guided Therapeutic Research

Proven Therapeutic Impact

Meta-analysis of 49 reviews covering 261 studies shows robust evidence for guided suggestion techniques, with participants improving over 79–84% of control groups across anxiety, pain management, and behavior change.

Rosendahl et al., 2024; Valentine et al., 2019
Self-Processing

Privileged Memory Encoding

Self-relevant information receives privileged memory encoding via unique patterns in the medial prefrontal cortex and temporal lobe, leading to significantly better retention.

Hampton et al., 2023; Symons & Johnson, 1997

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Your sessions. Your data. Encrypted so only you can access them.

Zero-Access Encryption

Every session is encrypted with a key generated on your device using AES-256 and elliptic-curve cryptography. The decryption key never leaves your phone — not even SelfSpoken can access your audio.

Device-Key Protected

Your private encryption key lives in your device's secure keychain and syncs via iCloud Keychain. It never touches our servers. Switch phones seamlessly; your sessions follow you, not us.

HIPAA-Aligned Practices

Voice recordings are processed securely and never shared with third parties. Our infrastructure runs on AWS with continuous security monitoring and HIPAA-aligned data handling practices.

The same AES-256 standard used by major financial institutions. Backed by AWS infrastructure with server-side encryption at rest.