Meet Emi
Master your feelings. Breathe. Glow. Find your calm.
Falls apart when the tablet goes away. Comes off screens wound up and impossible to settle. Emi helps children understand what they're feeling, and find their way back to calm.
- Name feelings
- Reset fast
- Build resilience
The skill that turns meltdowns into moments of genuine self-awareness.
When the screen goes off and dopamine drops, the nervous system has to recalibrate. For many children, that process is overwhelming, not because they're being difficult, but because the emotional regulation skill hasn't kept pace with their technology use.
Emi doesn't just help children calm down. It helps them understand what's happening, and build the internal capacity to navigate it themselves, next time and the time after that.
The emotional challenges Emi is built to solve.
Emi targets the emotional fallout of modern screen use, and builds the regulation skills that keep pace with it.
Meltdowns when screens go away
The full-body dysregulation that happens when a device is taken away. Emi builds the skill to move through that recalibration without falling apart.
Anxiety that builds after screen time
The low-level worry, restlessness, and difficulty settling that many children experience after social media or fast-paced content. Emi helps children name and address it.
Emotional dysregulation
Big feelings that arrive suddenly and take a long time to pass. Emi builds the vocabulary and the tools to move through difficult emotional states more quickly.
Screens as the only emotional regulator
When a device is the default response to any difficult feeling, boredom, upset, loneliness, Emi builds the offline alternatives that break the cycle.
Emi is for your family if...
- Screen removal causes disproportionate distress
- Your child comes off screens wound up or unsettled
- Screens are used to soothe every difficult emotion
- Big feelings arrive fast and take a long time to pass
- You want your child to regulate from the inside, not the screen
Recognise any of these?
Meltdowns when screens are removedCrying, shouting, or full emotional collapse when a device is taken away, disproportionate to what just happened.
Can't settle after screen timeWound up, restless, impossible to calm down after time on devices. The nervous system stays activated.
Reaches for screens when upsetAny difficult emotion, boredom, loneliness, frustration, is answered with a device. No offline coping tools.
Anxious after social mediaNoticeably more worried, self-critical, or unsettled after time on social platforms.
Big emotions, fast arrivalEmotional responses that feel sudden and intense, with little window between the trigger and the full reaction.
Long recovery timeOnce dysregulated, takes a long time to come back to calm, without the skills to self-regulate back.
Building emotional skill from the inside out.
Feeling naming exercises
Children who can name what they're feeling are better able to manage it. Emi builds the emotional vocabulary that gives children agency over their inner experience.
Breathing and reset tools
Age-appropriate, evidence-based techniques for moving through difficult emotional states quickly, without reaching for a screen.
Resilience-building challenges
Weekly activities that practise tolerating discomfort, recovering from upset, and building the confidence that difficult feelings are survivable.
Emi badge
Earned when children navigate a difficult emotional moment, after screen time or otherwise, and find their own way back to calm.
The emotional skills that last.
Emotional vocabulary
The ability to name what they're feeling, which is the first step to managing it.
Emotional resilience
The confidence that big feelings pass, and the skills to move through them without being overwhelmed.
Self-regulation
The ability to return to calm independently, without a screen, without a parent having to manage it for them.
Offline coping tools
A real repertoire of ways to manage difficult feelings that don't involve reaching for a device.
Is Emi the skill your child needs?
Take the free two-minute quiz and find out, or join the havyn Challenge to work through Emi and five more skills as a family.