Abhinav Rai

WhatsHappening

What it is

WhatsHappening is a safe space to connect with yourself. It's an app for self-aware people — whether you're in therapy, past it, or doing the work solo. You speak into it whenever you don't feel yourself.

It doesn't give advice or solutions. Like a good therapist, it connects the dots, reflects back, and asks the questions you need. Speaking forces the fog into words, and hearing it reflected back helps you see yourself from the outside.

It's built around a few gentle practices:

  • Release — voice journaling to let out whatever's overwhelming, no tidying required.
  • Resolve — an Internal Family Systems–inspired space that holds room for your conflicting inner voices, so each part of you gets heard.
  • Remember — your notes organise themselves into islands (work, relationships, creativity) without any manual tagging.
  • Breathworks — guided breathing (physiological sighs, cadence breathing) to settle the nervous system when you're triggered.
  • Reflect — a Sunday letter summarising your week's emotional arc, plus music shaped by your reflections.

It's private by design: end-to-end encrypted, and your data is never used to train AI.

Why I'm making it

I built WhatsHappening because I needed it.

After burning out trying to build a "big company" three years ago, I felt completely lost, lonely, and on autopilot. I took a break and found IFS (Internal Family Systems). Over the next two years in therapy, I learned something profound: healing starts with giving every part of you space to speak. No fixing, no advice — just curiosity and acknowledgment.

That weekly hour with my therapist saved me. But I needed that safety between the sessions — when I was triggered, when I'd had an argument with my loved ones, when scarcity hit and different parts of me started screaming. I needed a place where I could speak freely and be truly heard, where someone would ask me the right questions to go deeper instead of giving advice, and where nothing would be lost.

So I built the companion I wanted for my own healing journey — one that acknowledges every part of me, notices things I'd have missed on my own, and organises everything I share into my life's anchors, automatically. Over time I naturally reduced therapy, from weekly to bi-weekly, and eventually paused it a few months ago — not because I don't value therapy, but because I feel equipped to hold space for myself now.

I built this from the mountains of Dharamshala as my life's work, not a startup. It's for people on a healing journey, for souls who embrace sensitivity, for anyone who needs a space where every part is welcome.

Where it's at

Built and live — now in the sharing stage, getting it into the hands of people who journal, who practise introspection, and who value emotional processing between (or instead of) therapy sessions.