Our MissionOh!Mind's mission is to
bring peace of mind to as many people as possible.
We demonstrate our dedication by creating affordable and
easy-to-apply tools that achieve effects similar to therapy
and meditation.
Our Products
Oh!Mind offers both Story Therapy and Story Meditation CDs
to help promote emotional well-being. Story Therapy is
currently available in three titles, each focusing on
different life issues and areas:
- The Wide-Open Meadow helps issues around
intimacy and relationships, isolation, and deeper
feelings of being cut off from others and not feeling
safe.
- The Beauty Behind the Mask is especially good
at motivating and giving you a sense of empowerment, and
also helps improve self-esteem and encourage liberation
of your true inner self.
- The Fall to Freedom is helpful for breaking
out of negative relationship patterns and that feeling
that you're stuck in something that you do not know how
to break free from.
We currently have one Story Meditation CD available,
Living in the Present, which is good for acheiving a
calmer state of mind and letting go of worries about the
past and the future, helping you pay attention to the
present.
Preliminary research has thus far shown that Story
Therapy is especially helpful at reducing symptoms of
depression, and Story Meditation is more helpful at reducing
symptoms of anxiety.
Our ResearchAt
Oh!Mind, we test all of our products and can attest to their
positive emotional effects. The way we test our CDs is
we first advertise in a local publication, asking for
volunteers for a small cash payment. Then we have
participants come in to a lab where they fill out a
questionnaire about how they feel. The participants
then listen to a CD. When finished, we give them the
questionnaire a second time. To determine the effects
of the CD, we subtract their scores after from their scores
before, interpreting the difference as the extent to which
the CD influenced the person's mood. To date we have
tested 48 subjects, and all but 1 had an improvement in mood
- usually both in the reduction of negative feelings and in
the increase of positive mood.
Our History
Oh!Mind
was founded in 2002 by
Dr. Courtney Johnson and her brother, Bret Johnson.
Oh!Mind grew quickly with the contribution of an angel
investor in early 2003 and again in August of 2004.
Before creating Oh!Mind's products, Johnson received
her Ph.D. in psychology from Duke University.
During her clinical training, Dr. Johnson noticed the
lack of alternatives to current therapeutic methods, and
began to imagine new products. Her first idea was
Story Therapy, and Johnson founded Oh!Mind as a way to
distribute these products. She has since developed
Story Meditation products and the company continues to
develop alternative methods for achieving the benefits
of therapy and meditation. Oh!Mind is located in
San Francisco, California.
