UpLife: CBT Therapy, Self Care

I’ve only been using UpLife for a few days now, but I can tell you that this is the best $35 I have ever spent in my life. This app has been a godsend. For the past year, I’ve been trying to find a therapist with no luck. I then went searching through the App Store to see if I could find an app that would help me sort out my feelings and frustrations about my life. Came upon UpLife and decided to give it a try. I love how the app guides you through various Frameworks such as emotional intelligence, which I’m working on right now. The app not only sets the context and gives you examples but also gives you exercises to work that really help you pinpoint what is causing your pain. You immediately feel so much better after going through one of the modules. I think the developers are under pricing this app. Really.

While I go to EMDR therapy, which has been amazingly helpful and life changing, I realize I needed something on a daily basis for more healing. This helps me be in depth and really focus on healing and improving areas of my life. Some areas I knew needing healing, some I was not aware I was doing. Every morning I lay in the bath and listen, then write out any questions or in-depth questions they have. I really appreciate this app and I needing something like this in my life right now. I thankfully got out of a 20 year abusive relationship, physically, emotionally, sexually (which I did not even know sexual abuse in marriage could be a thing). Lots of areas to improve and move past. I refused to stay in that dark place anymore. I know I’m smart and strong and can do anything I put my mind to. I feel like I’m finally learning to have a voice and take up for myself. I think I’m now taking up for myself in a way I needed to when I was a child and no one else ever did or could. Between this app, therapy and book, and the realization that I do in fact have a very loving support system (I was blind to it before) I know I can be a truly happy person. For the past 3 months I have become the happiest I’ve ever been in my life. I did not know it was possible to be this happy and this at peace. I know I will get even better from here. Got to use the tools and walk through the doors God give me.

I never write app reviews. Never. And the majority of apps that are supposed to be things for self-help, etc., end up kind of falling flat. Many times because I think I expect them to work magic and they seem to require too much time of me, and then of course there are pay walls and all that stuff. Something about this app seemed different so I decided for once I was going to pay for it especially because for one year, it didn’t seem like it was that expensive overall. I’m actually only on like day four, maybe day five. but it’s already pulling my insides out and showing them to me in a way that hasn’t been done in 20 years of therapy. I’m not saying that I have accomplished what 20 years did in the span of a few days. I’m speaking relatively. I do imagine that after months and months of using this app, I definitely will have accomplished more than I accomplished in 20 years of therapy. It is so easy to use. I listen to it while I’m making my coffee and I’m able to just sit and think and then write those thoughts down. Each session builds perfectly upon the last one. And the craziest part is that whatever I write down, he seems to say it next. I don’t think the app looks at your responses. I think they are all just your own notes. This is just done so well that somehow it knows what you’re going to say or what your issue truly is. I’m really holding out for hope that this is something that will finally help me heal from PTSD from narcissistic abuse and also help me with my ADHD. I will return to review again in several months. but right now, I have a lot of hope because this app holds a lot of promise.