You don't beat the monster. You learn to manage it every day.
The Battling Monsters program is not recovery. It is the daily battle, built for addiction, PTSD, and life after the system by someone who spent 13 years in it. No finish lines. No inspiration speak. Just the daily fight.
Free · No finish line · Just Care More, Inc. 501(c)(3) · EIN 47-3874536
Meet the Monster
Battling Monsters is a mental health movement founded by Jamie Leibert and operated by the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Just Care More. It uses adventure and extreme sports as the tool to fight for mental health, turning the daily practice of managing addiction, PTSD, depression, ADHD, and the weight no one else can see into something you show up for on purpose, every single day.
No. Battling Monsters is a mental health movement, not a video game. There is a documentary connected to it, El Monstruo, a Battling Monsters film in production, directed by Jamie Leibert and Sandra Zinovyev, but the movement itself is a daily mental-health practice, not a game and not the film.
Jamie Leibert, known as Captain Manicorn, founded Battling Monsters as a program of Just Care More, Inc., the 501(c)(3) nonprofit he operates. Leibert is a professional adventure athlete and filmmaker who has climbed and flown in 80+ countries. He built the program out of his own experience managing meth addiction and life after four years in federal prison.
Through three pillars: radical honesty about where you are, adventure as medicine using physical challenge to break mental loops, and daily accountability. The practice runs on four words: Show up. Struggle. Suck less. Repeat. It starts with the free Monster Management guide on this page.
Download the free Monster Management guide using the form on this page. No cost, no sign-up wall. If you are in crisis right now, call or text 988.
If you're here, something hit.
Maybe you're in recovery. Maybe you just came home. Maybe you're just trying to show up today. You've been handed pills, labels, and 12 steps with a finish line, and none of it held, because the thing you're fighting doesn't have a finish line.
Addiction, PTSD, the patterns the system built into you, they don't disappear. Anyone who says they cured it is selling something. I stopped trying to outrun mine and started learning to manage it. That's the whole difference.
You're not broken, and you're not alone. You just never had a daily practice built for this. We bring this into prisons, rehabs, and group homes, and we're telling you the same thing we tell everyone in that room: you can start today.
Who's telling you this
Jamie Leibert spent about 13 years in the system, four of them in federal prison, six months in solitary, and beat a meth addiction he still manages every single day. He didn't find a cure. He found a practice.
He built Just Care More to help kids, then realized he had to heal himself first. Now he leads Battling Monsters, and he still wakes up every morning and fights the same fight you do.
"I replaced prison therapy with wingsuiting. Not because it's safe, because it forces you to be 100% present. Your monster doesn't fit in the jump."Jamie Leibert, Founder, Just Care More
The method
Battling Monsters is not a hotline and not a 12-step. It's a daily management practice, and you can start it today.
You can't navigate from a place you won't admit to. It starts with telling the truth about where you actually are.
Movement is the reset button. Adventure and extreme sports force you into your body and out of your head. You can't spiral and move at the same time. This is the part nobody else does.
The monster doesn't take days off, so neither does the practice. Small repeated actions beat one heroic moment.
The four words
Your five-minute daily practice
See it in action
Watch it live
Swiss Alps. Shot by the Battling Monsters team. This is what the practice makes possible.
Who this is for
This is not therapy. This is not a replacement for crisis support. If you are in immediate danger, call or text 988 anytime. If you need professional support, we will help you find it.
This is what you do every other day, when the programs have ended and you are still fighting the same fight.
The numbers
Battling Monsters has reached more than a half million people through Just Care More, a 501(c)(3) running programs since 2015. It's not a theory. It's the same practice Jamie uses in real time, filmed from 80+ countries, on a three-legged rescue dog's timeline.
Start today. It's free.
Get Monster Management: The Daily Framework, the whole five-minute daily practice, sent directly to you. Free, from Just Care More, a 501(c)(3).
Other ways in
If you are in crisis, call or text 988 anytime. The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is free, confidential, and available 24/7.
Find people doing the same daily work at @BattlingMonsters on Instagram. You don't have to explain why you're there.
Reach us at hello@justcaremore.org. We read every message.
Just Care More is 100% funded by donors. Donate here. Tax-deductible, 501(c)(3).
Common questions
Battling Monsters is a daily management practice that uses adventure and extreme sports as the tool to fight for mental health. It is not a recovery program with a finish line and not a 12-step. It is a way to manage addiction, PTSD, and life after the system, one day at a time. It is a program of Just Care More, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded by Jamie Leibert.
You build a daily practice instead of chasing a cure. Name where you honestly are each morning, do one physical thing to get out of your head, tell one person one truth, and check at night whether you sucked a little less than yesterday. Small repeated actions, every day. The free Monster Management guide walks you through it in five minutes.
Yes. Movement forces you into your body and out of your head, and you cannot spiral and move at the same time. Pushing a physical limit, even a small one, proves to your brain that you can do hard things on purpose. Adventure is not the point. It is the tool that makes the daily work possible.
No. Recovery programs have finish lines. Battling Monsters does not, because PTSD and addiction do not. It is daily management, not a cure.
Start with the free Monster Management guide and do step one tomorrow morning: say one honest sentence about where you are. You do not have to do it alone. If you are in crisis, call or text 988 anytime.
Yes. The guide and the daily practice are free. Just Care More is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit funded by donations, so what supporters give funds the mission.
From the mission
What Is Battling Monsters? The complete definition.
Read → StoryWhy I replaced prison therapy with wingsuiting
Read →Show up. Struggle. Suck less. Repeat. The four words.
Coming soonYou don't beat the monster. You manage it.
Read →Adventure as medicine: why movement resets the brain
Coming soonThe people behind it
4 years federal prison. 80+ countries. Still fighting the monster every day. Built this from the bottom up so others do not have to.
Adventure athlete and operational backbone of Just Care More. Alongside Jamie on every mission across 80+ countries.
Found on the road. Three legs. Zero complaints. The heart behind Feed a Stray a Day and proof that care does not stop at the human edge.
Part of the Battling Monsters team, showing up daily in service of the mission.
Part of the Battling Monsters team, showing up daily in service of the mission.
Part of the Battling Monsters team, showing up daily in service of the mission.