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Your System. Your Patterns. Your Daily Practice.
The Self Study Lab — a guided, structured app that helps you understand yourself, build supportive habits, and create lasting change.
Launching January 2026.
Join the early access list — no pressure, just first access.
The Two Problems We Are All Facing:
Why this App Exists
After years of my own healing and thousands of hours as a therapist, I kept seeing the same pattern: people gain insight, but struggle to integrate it into daily life.
Therapy is invaluable — I deeply believe in it. But it happens once a week, while life happens every day. There’s limited time for deep psychoeducation, no built-in accountability during the week, and no community to support the practice that real change requires.
Our brains are wired for efficiency and autopilot, so even the best insights fade without reminders, structure, and repetition.
This app isn’t a substitute for therapy — it’s a complement. It’s the daily support, awareness, and practice that help your therapeutic insights turn into real, sustainable change.
That’s why I built this.
The Integration Gap
What Real Thriving Requires:
The Nervous System — Where Thriving Begins
The truth is, you can only thrive at the level your nervous system allows.
Every practice, habit, or intervention that’s ever helped you — from therapy to exercise to meditation — has worked because it supported your nervous system.
Our systems were built for purposeful contribution, movement, rest, and connection with nature — conditions our modern lives rarely provide. Recognizing this helped me connect the dots and create a framework that meets our most fundamental needs — the ingredients that make thriving possible.
The Nervous System — Where Thriving Begins
The Self Study Lab
A structured, psychologically grounded method to help you truly understand yourself and build the life your system needs.
Part self-study, part nervous-system literacy, part pattern mapping, and part behavior design — all built into a daily, doable rhythm.
start with awareness and intention — everything begins with paying attention on purpose
understand the forces shaping your behavior — how your brain and nervous system work
observe your patterns with curiosity
run small, meaningful experiments
learn what your system really needs
build daily practices that support growth
create structures that help you thrive
A Structured Path to Self Understanding
Everything begins with awareness and intention — slowing down enough to notice what’s happening inside you and choosing to pay attention on purpose. From there, you move into self-study, observing your patterns with curiosity instead of judgment.
Next comes field research, where you try small, real-life experiments to see what actually helps. Those insights feed into pattern mapping, making it easier to understand your loops, triggers, and needs.
With that clarity, you can create simple Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) — the supportive routines and structures that make life smoother. You reinforce all of this through RESTORE inputs like rest, movement, connection, and meaning, which keep your system grounded and resourced.
And throughout the process, you’re held by support, so you’re never trying to change alone.
What You’ll Find in the App
Structured Lessons
Clear, digestible teachings that help you understand your brain, your patterns, and the foundational forces shaping your behavior.
Pattern Mapping
Tools to help you spot your loops, name your triggers, and understand how your nervous system responds in real time.
Daily Awareness Practices
Simple guided check-ins that keep you intentional, regulated, and connected to yourself throughout the day.
A Supportive Community
A thoughtful, growth-oriented space where you can ask questions, get encouragement, and co-regulate with others on the same path.
Monthly Experiments
Small, focused challenges that help you test new behaviors, gather real data, and learn what actually works for your system.
Tools to Sustain Alignment
Practical frameworks, reminders, and structures that help you stay consistent and keep your life pointed in the direction you choose.
This is a place to be thoughtful, observant, supported, and intentional — every day.
Practice, Not Perfection
The principles are universal, but the ingredients are personal.
Thriving requires curiosity and intention — a willingness to experiment and a commitment to stay with your own unfolding.
This work isn’t about perfection; it’s about staying in relationship with yourself.
Become a Founding Member
The Self Study App opens in January.
I’m taking the rest of this year to refine the experience, record the lessons, and build the tools that will help you stay regulated, consistent, and intentional.
If you add your name to the early access list, you’ll be the first to know when enrollment opens — with absolutely no pressure or commitment.
This simply keeps the door open if you want to be part of the founding group.
$99/month locked in for life
direct influence on what gets built next
behind the scenes updates
a smaller, more connected early community
Limited founding member spots to ensure meaningful feedback and support.
What people have to say…
As a person attempting to figure out who I am and thinks we should arrive into life with an owner’s manual, I have tried multiple modalities over my lifetime to make sense of my behavior and actions. Some spot on and some not so helpful. The beauty of the workshop “From Reactive to Responsive” is it makes sense of the mind-body connection. Providing information on neurological responses and tools to identify and mitigate reactions. Micah’s experience as a teacher and counselor provides a comprehensive guide for self-care. The Nervous System Guide is an impressive tool to continue the work beyond the workshop. This is NOT an AI generated review, and all comments are my own.
- C.R. Mintun October 2025 Workshop.
Working with Micah has been such a valuable experience, he guided us through understanding the nervous system and its role in our emotional and physical health. He created a safe, insightful space that helped me connect more deeply with my body and recognize how to regulate my own nervous system with more ease and awareness.
-A.D. October 2025 Workshop
The nervous system class with Micah was GREAT! I was finally able to tackle some things that have been bugging me for a long time. We hear so much about the nervous system and our vagus nerve and all that. But what should we do with that, other than randomly try an exercise from a video on social media? So it was so cool to see myself finally get some concrete guidance about how to apply it to my everyday life and make improvements.
-J.N. October 2025 Workshop
Micah taught my Systemic Perspectives on Human Sexuality in Counseling course in grad school, and from the very first day I felt at ease in his presence. I loved the way he used his humor and openness to facilitate a safe environment for the class to take risks, to be vulnerable, and to not-know. He demonstrated a good deal of competence around the subject, while also being willing to share anecdotes from his own personal life and development around sexuality in ways that set the tone for the rest of us to show up honestly. His example gave us permission to not take ourselves too seriously, and to embrace a beginner's mindset on the subject. I highly recommend him!
-Katrina Severin MS, NCC, LPC Associate
I’ve worked with Micah for years. He was my teacher, then a mentor, and is now a colleague who I look up to for help on my most challenging cases. Micah has a distinct talent for boiling down vast amounts of information into a set of cohesive, organized and actionable principles. He’s somehow able to do this with a sense of humor and ease. Class with Micah is both personally transformative and a whole lot of fun.
-Jonathon Scarboro MS, NCC, LPC Associate
The most recent Five-Week Nervous System Workshop just finished — and it was incredible to watch participants reconnect with their bodies and capacity.
If you’re looking for real ways to work with your emotions, this is where to begin.
What if I have more questions?
Send me a message! I’m happy to help you figure out if this is the right fit.
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Hi, I’m Micah Freeman.
I’m a coach with 18 years of experience as a teacher, 8+ years as a therapist, and a background in nervous system-informed, emotionally grounded work. I hold master’s degrees in both Counseling and Teaching, and I help people unlearn patterns that no longer serve them and create lives that feel aligned, honest, and deeply human.