Your brain reacts before you have time to think. Here’s how the Pretzel App helps.

Ever notice how a stressful email, a difficult conversation, or a toddler meltdown can send your emotions into overdrive?

It starts with your brain’s amygdala, which helps detect potential threats and trigger your body’s alarm system. When it senses danger, it can activate your stress response, releasing adrenaline and preparing your body to fight, flee, or freeze.

Your heart races. Your muscles tense. Your thoughts spiral. Before you know it, you’re reacting instead of responding.

That’s where the Pretzel App comes in.

Pretzel helps you recognize what’s happening in your brain, pause, and reconnect with your thinking brain—the cortex, including the prefrontal areas involved in planning and decision-making.

Instead of letting your first emotional reaction dictate what happens next, you can reconnect with your strengths, remember who you want to be, and choose your next move.

This is your Zone of Choice—the space between feeling an emotion and acting on it.

And thanks to neuroplasticity, practicing these skills can help you build healthier patterns over time.

You can’t always control what triggers you. But you can learn to change how you respond.

🥨 Ready to UNTWIST YOUR EMOTIONS?

Search UNTWIST on the App Store or Google Play Store and discover the Pretzel App.

Feel it. Understand it. Choose your response.