Remember you have a body.
Most of us carry tension we can't name. We override hunger, ignore fatigue, and sit in discomfort so familiar it becomes invisible.
Remote work makes it worse. Four hours into a coding session — your shoulders at your ears, jaw clenched, breath shallow — and you don't even notice until the headache arrives. In the age of agentic coding, where AI handles the typing and you handle the thinking, it's easier than ever to forget that the human in the loop still needs water.
For some of us, the disconnect runs deeper. Trauma can quietly sever the line between mind and body. Either way, the path back starts the same: learning to notice again.
Interoception is your sense of what's happening inside your body — thirst, hunger, heart rate, muscle tension, temperature, the need to breathe. It's the sense most people never think about, yet it underpins everything from emotional regulation to decision-making.
Research in neuroscience and psychology has shown that interoceptive awareness is not fixed — it's a trainable skill. Regular, brief check-ins with your body's signals can measurably improve your ability to detect and respond to them. This is why somatic therapists, trauma specialists, and mindfulness practitioners actively work on interoceptive exercises with clients.
But here's the problem: those exercises happen in therapy sessions, meditation retreats, or apps you have to actively open. In between, during the hours you spend working, the awareness fades.
Felt is a training ground. It brings micro-practices into your workday — not as interruptions, but as invitations. A few seconds, a few times a day, to notice what's already there. Over time, these small moments of noticing rebuild the connection between your mind and body.
A few of the 50+ prompts Felt might ask you during your day
A quiet companion in your menu bar. No apps to open. No sessions to start. Awareness comes to you.
Prompts appear as a small card in the corner of your screen. They never steal focus, never interrupt your typing. After 30 seconds they shrink to a tiny pill and eventually fade away.
Not just a bell. Carefully crafted questions about thirst, tension, breath, posture, hunger — each one an invitation to notice. Two stages: identifying sensations, then sustained contact.
Different rhythms for work hours, lunch, evenings, and weekends. Five modes from Recovery (very gentle) to Reach Harder (more frequent). Respects fullscreen — defers when you're presenting.
When you need privacy — in meetings, shared spaces — a subtle icon pulse replaces the floating card. You choose when to look. Nobody else needs to know.
A companion command-line tool and MCP server let you interact with Felt from your terminal or AI assistant. Log check-ins, trigger prompts, adjust modes — all from where you already work. For developers →
Star the prompts that land. Felt remembers, and gently weights them higher over time. An anti-repetition algorithm ensures you never see the same prompt twice in a row.
A prompt's lifecycle — unobtrusive by design
Anyone who spends their day in their head and wants a gentle way back to their body.
Developers, writers, researchers — anyone who sits behind a screen for hours and regularly forgets they have a body. Remote workers especially, where there's no one to notice you haven't moved since morning.
People rebuilding the mind-body connection that trauma can disrupt. Felt was designed with this audience in mind — the language is gentle, the pacing is patient, and you're never asked to do more than notice. See our scope & safety statement →
You don't need a diagnosis or a reason. If you've ever caught yourself hours into deep work, suddenly aware of a clenched jaw or empty stomach, Felt is for you. Interoceptive awareness benefits everyone.
Zero analytics. Zero telemetry. Zero network calls. Every check-in, every response, every setting lives in a local database on your machine. Felt doesn't phone home. There's nothing to opt out of because there's nothing to opt into.
If someone asked us for your data, there wouldn't be any to give.
Read the full privacy statement →Pay once. Use forever. No subscriptions, no recurring charges, no nag screens.
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at checkout for 50% off, no questions asked.If you work with somatic awareness, trauma recovery, or body-based practices, Felt can extend your work into your clients' daily lives. Free and discounted bulk licence codes are available for practitioners.
Learn more →Felt exists because its developer needed it. After years of work that demanded living in the mind at the expense of the body, rebuilding that connection became essential. This app is the tool that helped — now available to anyone walking a similar path.
It's a craft project, not a startup. Built by one person, sustained by the people who use it. The prompts are written from lived experience with mind-body reconnection — the quiet, patient work of learning to notice again.
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