Evidence-based daily practice

The gym for your whole life

Your health has four spheres — physical, mental, emotional, and purpose. Thriving turns the best evidence in each of them into small daily practices, and gives you one place to organize them instead of an app per problem.

For people working on more than one thing at once — anxiety, weight, a habit you want gone, a sense that something is missing — who are done juggling a binder and five apps.

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A morning routine in Thriving called The Total Health Routine: one small practice each for movement, breathing and gratitude, each with an Open button, above a 12-week plan.

One place for anxiety, fitness, habits and purpose

Almost everyone trains one part of their health properly and hopes the rest looks after itself. It doesn't, and the neglected part is usually the one causing the trouble.

Physical

Movement · Diet · Cold · Sexual health

Mental

Breathing · Mindfulness · Visualization · Learning

Emotional

Regulation · Gratitude · Connection

Purpose

Goals · Habits · Productivity

Nobody needs all of it. One or two practices from each sphere is total health. You pick them, and the smallest version of each takes under a minute.

Open it and see what matters today

The exact exercise

Not “prioritize sleep”. The thing to do, how long it takes, and a timer to do it with.

A routine that's yours

Put your practices into a morning, evening or spare-moment routine. That routine is what you see when you open the app.

A way to keep going

A dashboard with one ring per sphere shows what you actually did this week, so the thin one is visible before it becomes a problem.

Miss a day? Nothing breaks.

If you've quit a habit app before, it was probably the day the streak reset. Here, each habit grows a plant, one stage for every day you practice. Miss a day and it pauses. Nothing ever kills it, and nothing sends you a report on what you didn't do.

Each practice also has a smallest version — one breath, one sentence, thirty seconds — for the days when that's all there is.

Whose research? It's listed on every practice.

Each practice names the studies behind it, with links to the papers. Where the evidence is smaller than the version you've heard, the practice says so.

Physical

Quick Pump

Stamatakis et al. (2022), Nature Medicine

Mental

One Breath

Zaccaro et al. (2018), Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Emotional

Be Human & Connect

Holt-Lunstad, Smith, Layton (2010), PLoS Medicine

Purpose

One Important Goal

Locke & Latham (2002), American Psychologist

Read the sources for every free practice

What people say

“After I had a heart attack my doctor recommended numerous health habits, but no way to realistically integrate them into my life. How was I supposed to improve my movement, diet, mental health, stress, and even relationships in one routine? Thriving made it possible … Now I feel healthier and happier in my 40's than I did in college.”
Dane PrincipeOptions trader
“Being in healthcare I was aware of what to do to improve my health, but just couldn't seem to do it. Thriving not only showed that it was possible, but easy if I had the right tools.”
Alise Ramirez GomezClinical nurse
“I felt lost in life … My personalized Thriving routine helped me explore my dreams and make not only a plan, but a system to achieve them … I've never felt purpose and success like this before and I owe it to Thriving.”
Jose McCormickEntrepreneur, former painter
“I was making great money and making a difference, but inside and outside I was falling apart. My Thriving routine gave me the tools I needed to feel less stressed and deal with high stress situations in the moment.”
Joseph FickelLawyer

Individual experiences from Thriving.org members, in their own words. They are not typical results and not medical outcomes.

9,400 people follow The Thriving Institute on Facebook, and the movement videos have been watched more than 62,000 times (October 2026).

What it costs

Free

$0

Permanent. No credit card.

A routine across all four spheres, one routine from history, the Total Health dashboard, your entries and your habit garden.

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All-Access

$17.99 / month

or $99 a year ($8.25 a month) · or $349 once, yours for life

Every practice in the library, every twelve-week Program, and the AI tools that fit a routine to you.

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Try it for 30 days. If nothing moves, it's free.

Use it properly for a month. If your sleep, your stress, your focus or your consistency haven't shifted, email admin@thriving.org and we'll refund you in full. No form, no explanation, we won't ask why. Monthly and yearly plans can be canceled any time.

Who this isn't for

If you want a one-tap checklist and nothing else, a free tracker will do that better. If you need treatment for a medical or mental health condition, this isn't that, though it can sit alongside it. Thriving is for people who want to know what to do, why it works, and where to keep it.

Questions people ask first

Is this another streak app that makes me feel bad?

No. Miss a day and your habit garden pauses. It doesn't die and it doesn't reset to zero. You pick it up where you left it.

Whose research is it?

Every practice lists the studies behind it, with authors, journal and year, and links to the papers. You can read them on the evidence page before you sign up. Where the evidence is smaller than the version you've heard, the practice says so.

Why pay when a spreadsheet is free?

A spreadsheet records what you did. It doesn't give you the exercise, tell you why it works, or cover the parts of your health you weren't tracking. The free tier is permanent, so you can find out whether that's worth anything to you before you pay.

What do I get for free?

A starter practice in every part of each sphere, one routine from history to follow, the Total Health dashboard, and your entries and habit garden. No card, and it doesn't expire.

What if I pay and it doesn't help?

Email admin@thriving.org within 30 days and you get a full refund. No form and no explanation needed.

Is this medical care?

No. Thriving is an educational wellness program. It doesn't diagnose or treat anything and it isn't a substitute for a doctor or therapist.