BROADLY – Feb 14 – Mend and Break-Up Boss are part of a new wave of self-care apps that promise to help users get over ex. Mend CEO and founder Elle Huerta had recently moved to San Francisco and was living alone when she went through the breakup that inspired her app. Huerta wanted Mend to be like a "best friend who also has great advice" and provide comfort during those first few days that are particularly sore. It encourages prioritizing your relationship with yourself through journalling, logging daily self-care activities, or listening to audio trainings from mental health and wellness experts. In 2015, Stila Cosmetics founder Jeanine Lobell and therapist Jane Reardon came up with Rx Breakup, a "30-day, three-step program" that provides tools to help users compartmentalize their thoughts and feelings through analytical writing exercises, and aims to help them replace unhealthy coping mechanisms with positive change. There's also Break-Up Boss, created in 2017 by Australian author and relationship columnist Zoë Foster Blake, an app designed to virtually smack users hand away when they're about to cave and contact their ex.
