A brand new app to assist assist folks affected by image-related psychological well being struggles is in search of folks to volunteer as mentors.
Begin-up charity, Been There, affords these struggling with physique image-related psychological well being issues a free mentoring chat service via its new app, which connects those that really feel remoted and alone with their struggles to a skilled mentor who has beforehand been there themselves. The charity is now calling for extra volunteer mentors to hitch the group after a better than anticipated demand within the trial launch earlier this yr.
The charity is asking on those that have skilled physique picture points to volunteer to assist folks like them by way of the app, which is obtainable within the Google and Apple shops. No coaching or earlier mentoring expertise is required as a result of as soon as signed up, the charity will vet, prepare, and assist mentors earlier than pairing them with a number of grownup mentees within the UK. The one requirement is that mentors have lived expertise of physique picture struggles and now have acceptance, contentment and consciousness of the place they’re in their very own journey. “When struggling together with your physique picture, particularly if you’re on the stage of disorderly consuming, it’s a lonely expertise, even within the largest of social circles. I felt I wanted to cover who I used to be, what I felt and the way I needed to behave. You could have a guard as much as conceal your disgrace that retains you distant from household and pals” defined Been There founder and CEO, Tessa Peters, who based the charity after her personal battle with bulimia.
“There was this wonderful social and vibrant world throughout me, however I withdrew from it as I felt nobody might perceive what I used to be going via. It was solely as soon as I used to be in a position to discuss to somebody who had had an identical expertise as me that one thing clicked, and I might begin on my journey of self-acceptance and restoration”.
Discover out extra at www.beenthereapp.com or seek for the charity on Instagram or Fb.
