A journal for your wellbeing

Check in to track
your emotions

Spot patterns
as they appear
over time

And learn new ways to
help yourself in
the moment

The How We Feel Project is a non-profit working to help everyone better understand their own emotions.

The How We Feel Project is a nonprofit organization created by scientists, designers, engineers, and therapists to help everyone better understand their own emotions.

About How We Feel is a free journal for your well-being created by scientists, designers, engineers, and psychologists. Over time, you will learn precise words to describe how you feel, spot trends and patterns, and practice simple strategies to regulate your emotions in healthy ways.

Team The How We Feel product team is led by Ben Silbermann, co-founder of Pinterest. The team includes current and former Pinterest employees who are passionate about creating a more emotionally healthy world. Our scientific team is led by Dr. Marc Brackett and his team at the Yale University Center for Emotional Intelligence. The Center offers training to schools to help educators, students, and their families better understand and manage emotions. To learn more, visit rulerapproach.org or read Dr. Brackett‘s book, Permission to Feel.

Acknowledgements Lots of people helped design and build How We Feel including Meredith Arthur, David Cheng, Camille Emig, Patrik Goethe, Andreas Helin, Josh Inkenbrandt, Mark Landsman, Ryan Probasco, Metalab, Evrhet Milam, Andreas Pihlström, Dr. Zorana Pringle, Ari Simon, Dr. Robin Stern, and Sara Strand.

We were inspired by leaders in emotional intelligence research and practice, including Peter Salovey, Jack Mayer, David Caruso, and Marvin Maurer, and leaders in emotion science, including James Russell, Lisa Feldman Barrett, and James Gross.

The How We Feel Project The How We Feel Project is a scientific non-profit created in 2020. Our first app was a free survey that let anyone self-report COVID-19 symptoms and anonymously share the data with scientists and doctors. The project was led by Professor Feng Zhang of MIT, Xihong Lin of Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Ben Silbermann. Early findings were published in Nature Human Behavior. Our hope is to continue building consumer software that improves public health and advances scientific research.