GG Body Image: Body Love & Acceptance Training
Thinking about a new diet? Don't like your body? Want to lose weight? Wishing you could love your body more that you currently do?
With GGBI you can start improving your positive body image and body acceptance today.
THE GG APPROACH
Instead of asking "can I lose 20 pounds" or "how do I lose weight", GG Apps take a different approach: if we improve body image and accept our body, we can then start improving many other aspects of our wellbeing such as mood, and relieve depression, anxiety, and obsessions related to our perceived body image.
HOW GG WORKS
Throw away negative thoughts. Approach positive ones. Learn to identify your thoughts and respond quickly. Train daily and improve. The app focuses on positive body, body acceptance, distress, preoccupations with one’s appearance or perceived flaws.
FEATURES
- 15 free levels to learn, understand and improve.
- 1 free daily training level.
- In total, 48 levels including topics such as body-focused self-esteem, importance of appearance, shame, fear of being judged, the need to look perfect and more.
IS THE APP FOR ME?
The app was designed for wide range of people. The following sample statements represent some of the thinking we are targeting:
- I am obsessed with my body
- I have issues with how I look
- I need to lose weight
- I look weird
- I can't have a relationship until I lose weight
- I suffer because of my looks
- I hate my body
- I hate looking in the mirror
- I have low body confidence
- I don't like a particular part of my body
- I wish I could accept my body
These thoughts represents various body-related beliefs. In GG Body Love, we target these beliefs, make them more flexible and introduce ways to allow for positive thinking to take over.
RESEARCH AND THEORY BEHIND
According to CBT models, negative thoughts – individuals’ ongoing interpretations of the self, others and the world - maintain psychological difficulties such as obsessive preoccupation, low mood, and maladaptive behaviours.
In body distress and preoccupation, for instance, people's negative self-talk often relates to the over-importance of appearance to their self-worth, their being accepted or their success in life more generally. Individuals with such beliefs will continuously say to themselves (in their heads) phrases such as ‘I’m ugly’, ‘I have to look perfect’ or ‘I will never be accepted because of my looks‘.
Such negative self-talk increases body related distress and preoccupation, intensifies negative mood and often provokes checking and reassurance for others.
GG Body Love was developed in order to provide an accessible CBT training platform that would allow individuals with body related distress and preoccupation to better deal with negative self-talk. The application is designed to:
1. increase individuals’ awareness of negative self-talk.
2. train individuals’ to better identify and challenge negative self-talk.
3. increase individuals’ access to neutral and positive self-talk.
4. increase the automaticity of the above processes.
To further strengthen learning of supportive self-talk, each level the player completes is followed by a small memory game in which one has to identify a supportive statement that appeared in the previous level.
Training using this application, will allow for gradual, steady learning of more positive thinking, thereby helping to break the vicious thought cycle maintaining appearance related preoccupation.
ABOUT GG APPS
GG Apps is a new and exciting mobile platform (from the same team that brought "Good Blocks") aimed at improving people's wellness by expanding and challenging their self-talk.
OTHER APPS by GG
GG OCD Daily Training App
GG Confidence & Self-Esteem
GG Relationship Doubt & Obsessions (ROCD)
GG Depression
Category : Medical
Reviews (27)
Super buggy. Constantly have to exit to menu and restart because flicking a comment up or down doesn't always work and it just floats back into the screen when you've already tried to mark it as positive or negative. Too frustrating.
I've only been using it for two weeks, so maybe I'll notice changes in my thinking after I've been using it for longer. Users should be aware that unlocking the app doesn't give you access to more modules. It seems like it means that you can access the 51 modules in the app with no restrictions after the free trial period is over.
i love it. it helps more if you do it daily 3 times a day. when my depression/eatinf disorder 2worsen i stop taking care of myself, and i stop using the app. but it was very helpful when i was in treatment. i had to leave because of my insurance, but it was very helpful and still is.
I honestly didn't think it would help a lot first, but I was pleasantly surprised how it helped me on my journey to view myself in a different way. That also helped me to deal with mental problems I have. I would recommend it if you look for a way to appreciate or realise your value as a person more.
I like this app but sometimes you get 'positive ' statements that suggest we should be okay with looking bad because other things matter more.Which is true but I would rather learn to believe that although we aren't all conventionally attractive that we are still attractive not to just think I'm ugly but that's okay. I'm not sure if this makes sense but it did in my head 😂
I recently started this app and I already find it healing! It's nice to take time to remember/recognize what is positive self talk and what is not. This app is a nice tool for working towards well being and inner peace
I really like this app! Sometimes statements came up that I didn't consciously realize I was thinking about myself... It helped me to recognize my negative thinking patterns that have been limiting my self esteem.
Great for every day reminders that you are worthy. I only wish they would upload more content as the statements get repetitive. But overall happy with this app!!
The idea behind this app is amazing! But, it's way too glitchy- I haven't been able to get through a single lesson yet!
Unfortunately this another empty vessel. God’s Word and His power are sufficient. Jesus is the Way, the truth and the life.
Honestly glad I downloaded it. It has definitely given me a change in my mindset and it became almost a daily habit to check in.
I've found that some of the phrases that I've come across have been popping up when I get really critical, it's been very useful.
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great seamless progression in the app. helped me with me stomach obsession.
It was working good started to feel better then you start to yell at me for playing I've been scared to play cuz I don't know what time you want me to I am uninstalling now
I didn't think I needed it, but it turned out to be a lot more helpful than I expected.
Great app! I love the daily practice
I thought it was a good idea until it tried to suggest that 'old' and 'fat' are negative words. They are not negative, they are merely descriptors that society has placed negative meaning on. I am both old and fat and I'd like to be able to say that. It should work towards perception of the words rather than lying to yourself.
It's positive and interesting
I suggest this app if you are feeling low aand mistreating yourself as a person.
Such a great app!!
Awareness is a big part of the game!
Love this app but since the last update I've lost my progress and selecting "restore purchases" to get my subscription back doesn't work. Can someone help please?
Great game. The only cognitive behaviour training (or CBT) app that works. I love, just love, that it's a game. I also love the proactive approach rather than reactive and the fact that it's like daily exercise. Good for you!
Good idea but I can't throw it away for some reason
I haven't use it yet tbh, but as someone who would find an app like this very helpful, im rating it 5 stars just because someone had the foresight to think that someone lit there would benefit from this kind of independent self help. Right on, and thank you so much. I look forward to trying the app. 👣🙏
this is an excellent way to teach ourselves self-esteem. the only issue I have with it is the way you handle the memory boost feature. when I get an answer wrong you make a sound and paint the card red. that sets off alarm bells in my brain and doesn't help much. I grew up being really afraid of mistakes and perhaps if you can figure out another way to deal with that besides focusing on the mistake with the color red? thank you.