The space between knowing and feeling
For some of us, emotions arrive as data points rather than experiences. We observe ourselves from the outside, cataloging reactions we can name but not quite inhabit.
This is not a flaw to be fixed. It is a pattern that served a purpose—perhaps still serves one. ThinkFeel.Live begins with that acknowledgment.
What we're building
ThinkFeel.Live is an iOS application that approaches emotional awareness through the body rather than the mind. Heart rate variability. Breath patterns. Physical sensations. The physiological signatures that precede—and sometimes replace—the words we lack.
The application does not ask you to name what you feel. It invites you to notice what your body already knows, and over time, to build bridges between sensation and language.
This is not therapy. It is not meditation. It is something closer to literacy—learning to read a text you've always carried but never quite parsed.
Origins
ThinkFeel.Live emerges from Curiositech LLC, a small studio that builds tools for the spaces between established categories.
The project draws from interoceptive research, heart rate variability science, and the growing body of work on emotion granularity—the understanding that finer distinctions in emotional vocabulary correlate with better emotional regulation.
We are building for people who think well but feel puzzled by their own inner weather. The analytics-minded. The intellectually curious. Those who have wondered if everyone else received an instruction manual that somehow passed them by.
Our approach
Structure as safety
The interface uses precise geometry, measured typography, and a physiologically-grounded color system. If your thinking style runs systematic, you will find the environment familiar rather than alienating.
Body before lexicon
Rather than presenting emotion wheels or asking you to select from predetermined categories, ThinkFeel.Live begins with physical sensation. What does your chest feel like right now? Your jaw? The answer may not have a name yet, and that is acceptable.
Clinical rigor without clinical coldness
Every intervention has research backing. Every metric has meaning. But the experience itself aims for something like warmth—the kind that comes from being precisely understood.
What we believe
That precision and warmth are not opposites.
That the body knows things the mind takes longer to learn.
That expanding one's emotional vocabulary is a form of self-expansion.
That privacy is not a feature but a prerequisite.
That some forms of intelligence have been undervalued, and deserve tools built specifically for them.
Coming soon
ThinkFeel.Live is currently in development for iOS and macOS. Join the waitlist to be notified when it becomes available.
Curiositech LLC · Portland, Oregon