Neurocycle

Dr Leafs approach has helped me so much through my issues in the past year. Her approach is easy to understand and easy to listen to.

I only discovered Caroline Leaf recently and have read her book “Switch on your brain” and have devoured quite a few of her videos on YouTube. I’ve just begun my first 63 day Neurocycle to work through some severe childhood (and resulting) adult trauma. I found the app a great addition to the book as Caroline takes you through the 5 steps each day and guides you in a very clear direction. It has made it much easier for me to know I am doing to right thing each day! I have already found change and I have not even finished my first Neurocycle.

The app really helped me to process a difficult season after working in the NHS in the pandemic and some trauma. It helped me to reconceptualise my experiences and thought patterns. There’s useful tips, mini Neurocycle, and it tracks your progress. I really recommend using the app for the 5 steps Neurocycle.

I started using Neurocycle in 2021 when I crush my finger in a terrible accident at the gym, then finding out I was pregnant with twins!! The PTSD and first trimester morning sickness was horrendous, and took a huge hit on my mental health. With the help of this app, I was able to reduce my anxiety, and increase my quality of life and overall health and well being. I still use the tools I have learnt from the Neurocycle app in my everyday life! Thank you so much Dr. Caroline Leaf.

I love Dr Leaf’s books The app tho .... it’s definitely helpful but you should know this before you buy it. 1- she talks really slow (I got impatient with how long things took just to listen to and how sloooow she spoke. ) 2- it’s definitely not 7-15 minutes a day it’s more like an hour a day. Just step 1 lesson is 15 minutes each day and there are 5 steps (that can be shorter depending on how long you write in your journal for) That’s quite misleading. 3- you can’t just go back to the actual day. I accidentally pressed skip on my active reach and there is no way to go back to it. You can relisten to the audio tho. I really liked the active reach reminders tho. Wish there was a subscription just for those I will not be resubscribing.

Content is really good but the speed which she talks at is unbearable. I just want to be able to speed it up so step one doesn’t take 15 minutes (it ends up taking an hour which I was told it was 15 mins max a day). There is no fastforward (I can’t stand how slow the talking is)

I’ve had no issues with the app functionality. It works great so far! (I’m on day 9). Highly recommend it! The content is invaluable and simply life changing & the layout is simple to navigate!

This thing work if you work it! Great guiding audio that explains things day by day; what you may be feeling, etc. it’s encouraging in times you might want to stop! I did my first Neurocycle on myself being negative. What did I mean by negative, when I was that way what did I feel? Was it effective? Where did it come from? Etc. it really opened my eyes to the why and to how ineffective and a waste of time being negative is. This has changed my perception of my thoughts and actions and has begun to give me space to choose a different response! New positive responses are downloading and coming soon! But the negative ones have mostly stopped in 21 days of nuerocycling!

I have done therapy for many years. I heard of Dr. Caroline Leaf on a podcast with Marisa Peers and wanted to read her book, Clean up your mental mess. That there is an app that guides you through the process she describes in the book is phenomenal. What a gift.

*Developer responded saying the issue was resolved the same day which is true but still does not negate the fact that the app needs work. This was not my first issue with the app. This was the third and the second issue led to me paying for the app for two years without knowing it. I know it’s still kind of new but the app is supposed to be optimized to use on the go and right now the web version is still better. Can’t recommend this app until it is more user friendly.* I signed up a year ago and thought I canceled. Turns out I had been paying for two years and had no idea and wasn’t using the service as intended. I finally canceled it and then updated the app and now I can’t log in at all to use what I paid for. It keeps telling me to subscribe. I was subscribed before I updated. The website is much better but something like this should have mobile access.