Case study
Toss It
A digital ritual for letting go: write down what's weighing on you, then toss it. A therapist-designed micro-intervention that fits in a pocket.
Toss It turns a proven therapy exercise — externalize the thought, then release it — into a thirty-second ritual: write down what's weighing on you, crumple it, and toss it.
Why it works
- Embodied release — the crumple-and-toss gesture engages the same motor pathways studied in expressive-writing research; the motion design makes the release feel physical.
- Built for rumination — racing thoughts, resentments, 3am loops; capture, release, sleep.
- Nothing is stored — the point is letting go, so the app does too. No history, no accounts.
Designed in SwiftUI by a licensed counselor and refined through real clinical use.