Practical guides for coaches and their clients — running a practice, tracking progress, and what actually changes between sessions.
Learn how Interlude uses AI-powered journaling and pattern detection to help you build better emotional wellness habits.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, developed by Marsha Linehan for treating borderline personality disorder, teaches four core skill sets — mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness — that have broad applications for emotional wellness.
Mindfulness teaches you to observe emotions without judgment. Mood tracking teaches you to understand patterns over time. Together, they create a complete emotional awareness practice.
Research on self-monitoring of mood shows consistent benefits for emotional awareness, early symptom detection, and therapeutic outcomes. Here is what systematic reviews and clinical studies reveal about the efficacy of mood tracking.
Your Interlude dashboard shows line charts, heatmaps, and weekly rhythms — but what do they mean? A practical guide to interpreting your emotional data and turning numbers into actionable insights.
James Russell's circumplex model maps all emotions onto two dimensions — valence and arousal — providing a powerful framework for understanding the full spectrum of emotional experience and designing better mood tracking tools.
Gratitude practices are everywhere — but does the research hold up? A critical look at what gratitude interventions actually do to your mood, and how to practice effectively.
Behavioral activation, rooted in Neil Jacobson's research, treats depression by systematically increasing engagement with rewarding activities. It is one of the simplest yet most effective evidence-based approaches to overcoming depressive withdrawal.
