The Self Compassion App

I really appreciate the app and it is helping to build my self compassion. I log what I am looking forward during my day and log what I am grateful for at the end of my day. I am a mental health practitioner and would recommend this app to anyone whom would like to enhance the compassion that they have for themselves. I have now been using the app for 3 plus years and use it every day. I incorporate my daughter into identifying what she is grateful for each day too.

This app is completely fake it doesn’t help with anything and writing things about what we are stressed about is gonna make us think about it more. I always feel the same and developer just responds with sorry and other stuff. This is a bad app, not recommended.

This has got to be the bleakest app I’ve ever downloaded. It’s almost does the complete opposite of what it states. When you first go into the app, it tells you that you’re going to die. We know. Why do we need a reminder of that when downloading an app about Compassion? For example, in my years of self-destruction, due to trauma, I have found the idea that death is inevitable an excuse for not actually trying. What’s the point of creating all these wonderful things if I’m going to turn to dust one day and be forgotten? An immediate reminder of that made me feel less motivated to be compassionate to myself. Then the first lesson is called “what is compassion”, which then gives a long speech about human suffering. I’m not really sure who this is supposed to appeal to, but it made me feel really demotivated into actually change my life. How am I meant to have compassion when everything is about suffering and eventually death? Just seems like a recipe for apathy. I think the search for self compassion is going to have to be made without this app. Whats the next lesson: Your Cells Are Dying Everyday? A Reminder That Nothing You Do Is Worth Anything? Or Your Nan Will Die And You Will Be Sad? A big fat one out of five stars.

I’ve recently started the 28 day compassion programme and been really impressed. The content is clear and well paced, and includes well structured mix of education, self reflection, and compassion and mindfulness practices. I’m already starting to see improvements through tools like the daily journals and am excited to see how this develops over the rest of the course. I would recommend you give it a go if you’ve found other approaches like CBT have tended to increase self criticism, compassion really helps balance that whilst still allowing you to see loops and patterns that might be holding you back.

Fantastic app so good for mental health in so many ways. I highly recommend

As a coach and teacher of resilience programs I very much value this app and have recommended it to people. It’s helping me personally soothe my own self critical nature. Self compassion is so fundamental to mental health .

Very helpful content and resources. Delivered in bite size chunks for each day and tools which can then continue to be accessed.

I have been struggling with chronic stress culminating in burnout for years. This most recently culminated in such extreme stress that I was suffering panic attacks and regularly dissolving into incoherence and tearful despair at minor challenges, so I took time off work. I saw this app recommended in a fabulous book called “Burnout” by Dr Claire Plumbly and though I’d give it a try. It’s been a game changer to be honest - so many practical tools for managing difficult feelings and starting to become more aware of how I’m feeling and responding with kindness, which has always felt like an impossible challenge for other people. The course itself is payable at £49.99 (and 100% worth every penny) but there’s still access to some of the tools without paying. Honestly, I’ve done talking therapy, I’ve done CBT, I’ve done coaching etc, but this has been really the best thing yet.

I’m really enjoying this app and I look forward each day to learning the next steps. Everything is explained well and is easy to understand.

Only been using the app a short time but it has been really helpful already.