Sunrise is a journaling app designed for mental well-being. It offers guided templates such as Clarity Journal, Gratitude Journal, and Expressive Writing to help with overthinking, positivity, and trauma. The app focuses on privacy, smart feedback, and user-friendly features. Free trial available.
Features
Clarity Journal
Helps reduce overthinking by releasing pent-up anxiety, distinguishing between real issues and irrational fears, and worrying less about outcomes.
Gratitude Journal
Helps develop positivity by focusing on things to be grateful for, finding the good moments in daily life, and benefiting from positive reflections.
Expressive Writing
Aids in healing trauma by allowing emotional release from trauma experiences, improving emotional intelligence, and expressing complex emotions freely.
Worry Outcome Journal
Helps reduce overthinking by addressing general anxiety and distinguishing between real issues and irrational fears. It also assists users in worrying less about outcomes.
Guided Writing Prompts
Offers structured prompts to help users write about what they're worrying about, and predict future outcomes related to these worries.
Daily Writing Routine
Encourages users to write for 10 minutes every day for 4 weeks to establish a routine and track worry outcomes.
Guided Gratitude Journal
A structured journal template designed to help develop positivity by focusing on gratitude. Users write about experiences of gratitude, with prompts available to guide the writing process.
Evidence-based approach
Relies on scientific findings that suggest practicing gratitude can help reduce activation of anxiety and fear circuits while boosting circuits related to positivity and motivation.
Expressive Writing
A guided template that helps heal trauma by accelerating healing, improving sleep, and enhancing immune functions.
Guidelines
Suggests writing about something significant, reflecting on emotions related to that topic, and conducting this activity weekly for four weeks.
Research Evidence
Based on research by psychologist Dr. James Pennebaker, which shows expressive writing improves mental health and reduces doctor visits. Supported by neuroscientific studies for improved emotional regulation.