Wondering what recoveryBox is and if it can help you? Well, do you have an addiction, habit, hurt or hang-up that you want to break? If so, then recoveryBox is your toolbox for the iPhone (or iPad).
Designed for accountability, recoveryBox is an iPhone app toolset that facilitates tracking of daily life activities by easily breaking them down into your "lights". Breaking habits requires knowing why we do what we do, when do we do it and coming up with goals to break unhealthy behaviors. recoveryBox has the tools needed to help with addiction recovery.
recoveryBox is designed to work with any addiction: drugs, gambling, pornography, alcohol or customize your own specific to your needs!!
Use as much or as little of recoveryBox as you need. Visiting the How To Use Page will tell you more about the app but let's break it down.
1. Entering your daily lights (which are your daily routine activities). As you progress in recovery, you will see the number of green lights (healthy activities) increase as the number of yellow lights (warning light activities) and red lights (acting out) decrease.
The idea is to focus on changing your habits but by being accountable (see step 3).
2. Track your triggers. Know what sets you off so that you can try and avoid. Customize your triggers.
3. Be accountable to either a sponsor or accountability partner. This is a simple step of sending a text or email to your sponsor directly from recoveryBox. Included in the accountability communication will be totals of your lights as well as reasons for yellow and red light activities. You can customize this too. Being accountable is how the conversation gets started about what's really happening in your recovery.
4. Earn badges for your accomplishments! This is huge! Everyone needs affirmation when heading in the right track. Let recoveryBox help you by showing you progress and milestones not only for time being sober but for activities that are part of a healthy recovery.
5. Enter treatment goals. These goals can be developed by you, with a counselor, as part of a group or with your accountability partner or sponsor. And if desired, treatment goals can be linked to either a traditional 12 step program or Celebrate Recovery steps.
6. If you attend a traditional 12 step program or Celebrate recovery program, use recoveryBox to track which step you are in, journal while in that step as well as well as create goals. You can even switch back and forth between the wording for each step.
7. Sobriety Anniversary Date tracking is crucial to our recovery journey. See how long you have maintained your sobriety as well as set goals for a new sobriety date. recoveryBox will adjust your anniversary date if red lights are entered. Customize the sobriety date screen by adding a motivating picture of those you love.
There are lots of other tools that are part of recoveryBox:
- search daily lights with any customizable dates to find patterns,
- pray the serenity prayer,
- access daily devotionals,
- motivators that can be customized to remind you to enter your daily lights as well as text/email your accountability partner/sponsor,
- customize the daily communication piece,
- customize how daily lights are entered,
- post badges as well as anniversary dates to Facebook or Twitter,
- find recoveryBox resources,
- communicate with recoveryBox staff right from the app regarding bugs or requesting new features,
- share recoveryBox with friends directly from the app,
- rate recoveryBox from the app so that others find hope in their recovery
Good luck!
