Selftrace

For people who feel like strangers to themselves

Do you feel like a
different person
depending on the month,
the relationship,
the room you're in?

Like there's no stable "you" underneath it all?

That's called identity diffusion. It's one of the core experiences of BPD.
And it's exhausting.

But here's what we believe: there is a you. A continuous thread running through every version you've ever been. You just haven't been able to see it yet.

Selftrace helps you find it.

No credit card. No intake forms. Just you and your story.

Using principles from narrative therapy, IFS, and mentalization,
Selftrace helps you map who you've been, find the patterns underneath, and build a story of yourself that actually holds.

The more you add, the clearer the picture becomes. Think of it as a long conversation with yourself — one that finally goes somewhere.

Your Timeline

Map the chapters of your life — the periods where you felt like a different version of yourself. Give them names. Choose colors. See your whole story laid out.

Your Parts

Most of us contain multitudes. Meet the recurring aspects of yourself — the parts that show up across your life. None of them is the whole you. All of them matter.

Daily Reflections

One thoughtful prompt per day, chosen for you. Not journaling for its own sake — each question is designed to surface something real and continuous about who you are.

Patterns

See the themes that repeat across everything you've written. What do you keep coming back to? What's always been there? The data reveals what the heart already knows.

Open source Self-hosted

Your data stays yours.

Selftrace is free and open source. Run it on your own machine — no subscription, no data leaving your computer.

View on GitHub

docker compose up and you're running

The thread has always been there.
You just need help seeing it.

Begin your throughline