Worth Warrior: help body image

Worth Warrior is a free app designed for young people to manage negative body image, low self-worth, and early-stage eating difficulties or disorders. Created by teenage mental health charity stem4 and Dr Krause, a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, in collaboration with young people, the app uses principles from evidence-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for eating disorders (CBT-E). Like all stem4's award-winning apps, it is free, private, anonymous, and safe.

The app offers a range of helpful activities and information based on the idea that by learning to challenge and change thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and body image issues underlying low self-worth, eating and body-related issues can be helped. By identifying these underlying factors and monitoring them over time, you can start to identify your triggers and maintaining factors and work towards positive change.

The 'Change the Story' section helps identify negative self-thought and learn how to substitute positive self-thoughts. 'Change the Action' focuses on identifying negative behaviours and altering them. In 'Change the Emotion', users are provided with alternative, self-soothing behaviours to manage their eating, and in 'Change the way I view my Body', users are taught how to separate fact from assumption. There is also a range of information about eating disorders, such as the importance of regular eating and hunger, health consequences, and maintaining factors.

The app allows users to build a 'safety net' of helpful thoughts, behaviours, and people to contact, and signposts to help. Users can monitor and track which app activities help, record thoughts and feelings in a journal, and view daily motivators. We understand the importance of privacy, so no identifiable data is collected, and no WIFI access or data is required. It is built to NHS standards. Please note that Worth Warrior is an aid in treatment but does not replace it. Worth Warrior is the latest app in stem4's digital portfolio, which has been downloaded over 3.25 million times and received various awards.