Here’s a secret most people don’t tell you about the mental health world:
We have gold sitting in our hands, and we keep burying it under paperwork.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy — CBT, the sacred acronym of coping — is one of the most evidence-based, effective tools we have for mental health. It’s used worldwide. It’s accessible. It works.
And somehow, I’d been a nurse for years before I even heard about it.
That’s... not great.
Because CBT isn’t magic, but it’s the closest thing we’ve got. It teaches us how to rewire the brain one thought, one reaction, one tiny “I’m trying” at a time. But instead of being taught how to use it like a life skill, most people meet it for the first time in crisis. By then, it’s not “learning coping skills”—it’s “unlearning survival mode.”
So I built Houses & Humans as a way to practice it before the world catches fire.
Not clinical. Not boring. Not another worksheet with “rate your feelings from 1–10.”
It’s CBT, but dressed in dragon scales and sarcasm.
You fight monsters that look like deadlines, bad habits, and executive dysfunction.
You gain XP for cleaning your sink, resting on purpose, or finally answering that email that’s been haunting you for weeks.
If we practiced these things in small, funny, meaningful ways—
if we learned how to manage our brains before they broke—
we might actually have a shot at being okay.
CBT gave me the framework. Humor gave me the doorway.
Houses & Humans is what happens when you walk through it with snacks and dice.
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