Navigate Your Emotional Landscape with Purpose
YourBearings: A Self-Intervention Tool for Emotional Resilience
Discover a new way to engage with your emotions. A self-intervention tool for people who feel emotions intensely. It won’t calm you down or fix you — it helps you turn toward a feeling instead of away from it. That turn is the work.
WHY NOT JUST ANOTHER CALMING APP?
It won’t rescue you. That’s the point.
Most mindfulness apps oversell. They promise calm, peace, relief — help they can’t actually deliver, at least not in any way that lasts. You feel better for five minutes, then the feeling comes back, and you’re reaching for the app again before you cast it away as another gimmick.
Here’s the harder truth underneath all of it: no one is coming to rescue you. Not an app, not a breathing exercise, not a soothing voice.
And that sounds bleak until you see the other half of it — you are so much more powerful than you feel when you’re struggling.
That gap, between how capable you actually are and how helpless you feel in the moment, is exactly what YourBearings goes after. Not by calming you down (even though taking stock of your feelings in the moment oftens lower the intensity), but by helping you prove to yourself, one moment at a time, that you can face what you feel and stay standing.
WHAT YOU ACTUALLY GET BACK
Turning toward what you feel is how you get your moments back.
Avoidance is what’s draining you. When you’re spending all your energy bracing against your own feelings, there’s nothing left over for happiness. The outer world starts to feel threatening — but a lot of what’s scary out there is really about what you’re carrying inside and won’t look at.
Turn toward those feelings, in small repeated reps, and two things shift.
1. The inner world stops feeling like a stranger.
2. And the outer world softens.
The strength people call empowerment isn’t something this app hands you — it’s the byproduct of proving to yourself, one logged moment at a time, that you can handle what you feel. That’s why it’s self-intervention. The strength is yours, because you’re the one who built it.
Help Shape the App
More Than a "Mood Tracker"
YourBearings is more than just a mood tracker. It’s a self-intervention tool that leverages the Fortney MoLAI Method. Here, the simple act of logging an emotion becomes a transformative intervention, helping you navigate your emotional world with intention and clarity.
Unlike traditional mood trackers, YourBearings offers a proactive approach. By focusing on the act of noticing and recording emotions, it lets you engage with what’s happening.
Our method respects your autonomy, providing a space where you can explore your feelings without judgment or numeric scales, fostering a deeper understanding of your emotional patterns.
What Sets YourBearings Apart
Explore the unique features that make YourBearings a powerful tool for emotional resilience:
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Instant Emotion Logging
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Crisis Path with Easy Exits
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Space for Unnamed Feelings
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No Numeric Scales for Suffering
A Different Approach
It Hands You the Wheel
YourBearings is not here to offer quick fixes or false promises. Instead, it empowers you to navigate your emotional landscape with autonomy. This app is designed to hand you the wheel, allowing you to steer your own course through the complexities of intense emotions. By focusing on self-intervention, YourBearings respects your ability to understand and manage your feelings, providing support without taking over the driver’s seat.
Who Can Benefit
Designed for Those Who Feel Deeply
Kenneth Fortney
As a combat veteran who grew up in radical religion, I’ve faced the challenges of PTSD, BPD, and ADHD firsthand. My journey through these experiences has taught me the importance of self-awareness and resilience. YourBearings was born from this understanding, crafted to help others who, like me, feel emotions intensely. This app is a reflection of my commitment to providing a tool that respects your journey, offering support grounded in lived experience and the quiet power of self-intervention.
Safety Disclaimer
YourBearings is designed to support your journey towards emotional resilience. It serves as a wellness tool to help you navigate intense emotions, but it is not a substitute for professional therapy or emergency mental health services.
If you are experiencing a crisis or require immediate assistance in the US, please call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline), or call 911. Your well-being is important, and seeking appropriate support is a crucial step.
Become a Test User
We invite you to join us as a test user for YourBearings. Your insights will help shape a tool that empowers individuals to manage their emotions with greater autonomy. Please fill out the application form below to express your interest.