How does recoveryBox help me break my addiction?

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!!

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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!

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Becoming Accountable with a Sponsor/Accountability Partner using recoveryBox

How To Video Series for recoveryBox iOS App for Addiction Recovery

Below you will find our How To Videos for recoveryBox -becoming accountable. When we want to change a bad habit/addiction often the best thing (and often hardest) is allow ourselves to accountable to another person - most often a mentor or counselor or someone who has been through a similar journey. While choosing that person is difficult, you will know you have chosen well if they make you feel a bit uncomfortable with your negative habits while praising you when you choose well.  By uncomfortable we mean they are holding you accountable by wanting to perhaps talk through what happened or bring to light something that might be holding you back.  

Being accountable with recoveryBox is very easy as not only does the app have all your data that is easily aggregated into a simple email or text, the app allows you to customize how much or little data is being sent based on how you and your accountability partner work together.  recoveryBox even allows you to set up alarms to remind you to send that communication.

You might ask if that app can send the accountability piece automatically to your sponsor or counselor?  The answer is NO!  We believe that you must OWN your recovery and therefore while we have all the tools at your fingertips, you must be the one to make the decision to be accountable to someone else.

Becoming Accountable

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recoveryBox Voted Best Alcoholism App of 2017

Congratulations on making Healthline’s list of the Best Alcoholism Apps of 2017!  Our editors carefully selected each winner based on quality, user experience, and providing support to the community.

 Know someone who needs help with their alcoholism?  Consider being part of their recovery journey.  Have them download recoveryBox today and offer to be their accountability partner.  We as a community are all part of the solution.

Using recoveryBox with a Traditional 12 Step Program or Celebrate Recovery Steps

How To Video Series for recoveryBox iOS App for Addiction Recovery

Below you will find our How To Videos for recoveryBox - Using recoveryBox with a Traditional 12 Step Program or Celebrate Recovery Steps. Record what step you are on, journal as much as you want, share those entries with whomever you want and add treatment goals to that step.

Please note, if you are a person who doesn't want to use a 12 Step approach then you don't have to - ever!  Perhaps you might want to check out the Treatment Goals section instead!

Traditional 12 Step program or Celebrate Recovey Steps Using recoveryBox

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Working with Triggers in recoveryBox

How To Video Series for recoveryBox iOS App for Addiction Recovery

Below you will find our How To Videos for recoveryBox - tracking/customizing triggers. We understand that knowing what your triggers are and the emotional response that brings on can lead to acting out and so it's important to track that as well.  Perhaps realizing that having an anxiety level maxed at a 10 is part of the problem.  Or maybe your trigger is actually how you feel with certain people?  We don't know and won't pretend to know and so recoveryBox allows you to decide what those triggers are and allows you to assign a value to that each day for your accountability partner or sponsor to see in a daily email or text.

Tracking/Customizing Triggers

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Using recoveryBox for Addiction Treatment Goals

How To Video Series for recoveryBox iOS App for Addiction Recovery

Below you will find our How To Videos for recoveryBox - Goals for treatment for an addiction can come from a variety of places. Create goals with a counselor, perhaps you have person goals, create some with an accountability partner/sponsor. no matter where they originate from, track them all on one place in recoveryBox. Attach a 12 step to a treatment goal.

Treatment Goals Using recoveryBox

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recoveryBox Tools Motivational Quotes, Password, Badges, Serenity Prayer, Daily Devotionals

How To Video Series for recoveryBox iOS App for Addiction Recovery

Below you will find our How To Videos for recoveryBox - recoveryBox Tools and more!  Learn how to view daily quotes that will encourage you, learn how to protect your data by having a password (and remember at no time is ANY data every stored on any server - it's ONLY ever on your device), view badges you have earned (and you can turn the in app notifications off for badges now too if you don't want to view pop ups for awards earned), walk through the serenity prayer, feel like reading a daily devotional - it's there too.

recoveryBox Tools, Motivational Quotes, Password, Badges, Serenity Prayer, Daily Devotionals

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Tracking our Sobriety Anniversary Using recoveryBox

How To Video Series for recoveryBox iOS App for Addiction Recovery

Below you will find our How To Videos for recoveryBox -Sobriety Anniversaries are an important part of recovery. Don't let the addiction take the celebration out of recovery. Using recoveryBox, track one or more addictions and their anniversary dates. Add a motivating picture to get you through the hard time. See how to set it all up.

Sobriety Anniversaries

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Visually search our Lights for Habits in recoveryBox

How To Video Series for recoveryBox iOS App for Addiction Recovery

Below you will find our How To Videos for recoveryBox -visually searching our lights to reveal habits. Sometimes it's just not apparent to us why we act out and sometimes it's so obvious. Perhaps you are the visual type who needs to see what every Friday evening I'm either in the yellow or red zone and it doesn't make sense until you see it for yourself?  Or perhaps you are the type of person who likes to see how many lights you have earned in a day and to see if that number is growing?  Learn how to search using the calendar tool in recoveryBox.

Visually Searching our Lights to Reveal Habits

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CoDependency Recovery App - Breaking Free

recoveryBox - the Addiction Recovery iOS App

recoveryBox was created originally for those in recovery from a pornography or sex addiction.  However, after working with lots of counselors on this concept, we configured recoveryBox so that it would help those who want to break free from the addiction of CoDependency.  

The preconfigured addiction selection for CoDependency has suggestions of the types of habits that need to be broken (called your red lights).  But you can create your own type of addiction that would work better for you by creating your own custom red lights.

By tracking your good habits (green lights) as well as warning situations (yellow lights - people, places, and things) and triggers you can create a clear picture of what habits you have as well as need to break.

Keep accountable with your sponsor or counselor or accountability partner. recoveryBox will let you know it's time to enter your daily lights as well will remind you to connect with your sponsor.

recoveryBox works well with a traditional 12 Step Program or Celebrate Recovery.  Try recoveryBox today. Available for any Apple iDevice.

Don't worry if the lights you see here don't match what you need help with. Customize the addiction to match what you need to track. Users will also want to track their triggers (also customizable) so that accountability partners/sponsors can get a good picture of what's going on.

Want to break the addiction? Accountability does work!

What are recoveryBox "Lights" and how do they help me break my addiction?

Find out what the recoveryBox "Light" system is -- how it works -- recoveryBox.
It's easy to use and does work!  Change those bad habits into good habits!

Download recoveryBox today and be free from your addiction.

recoveroyBox's Today's Widget and Configure PopUps for Badges Earned

It's exciting to be able to offer new features for recoveryBox - and these ideas come from you the user!

TWO new features..

1. Todays Widget (and how to configure)

1. How to turn on/off the live pop ups for badges.

TODAYS Widget

Every wonder.. "Did I enter any lights today?" or "Did I text my accountability/partner or sponsor today?" And ever want to know this right away without starting up the app?

Introducing the Todays Widget for recoveryBox (and it's configurable!!)

When you first add the recoveryBox widget  you will see...

1.  The lights icon - if you have entered lights it will have a checkmark
2. The text/email icon - if you have sent an email or text it too will have a checkmark
3. The arrow icon - will bring you to the app
4. The blue label will default to a motivational saying.  You can configure this to actually display the addiction label if you prefer.
5. Default is also a display of the years, months and days of sobriety for each addiction. 

If you tap on any of the icons it will bring you to the app at the correct screen.

Select the preference tab to configure the Todays Widget

Turning on addiction labels will display the name rather than a motivational phrase.

Don't want to see length of sobriety and only want to see the reminder lights and accountability icons?  No problem.  Just turn it off an only see a motivational phrase.

Badge PopUp Configuration

Well, not everyone likes to have their badges popup in realtime as they earn them -- so you can now configure this too using the preferences for recoveryBox. If you turn off Display Badges they will stop popping up.  Its that simple!....but know that you are still earning your badges behind the scenes and anytime you want to go see what they are just visit the badge screen.

That's it for new features in 5.2!  Remember, if you have an idea let us know so we can see if it makes sense to add it in.  We want to support our users!

Download recoveryBox today!

New Version 5.1 and A Few Changes

Version 5.1 is soon to be uploaded to the Apple Store for their approval and then release.  It's coming peeps ~ I promise!

What is new?

Background/Logon Privacy Screen
MANY users asked us to blank out the screen when the app goes into the background mode and also for when it's brought back into the foreground.  This visual "hide" was asked for privacy purposes and we felt this was very important.  so - added!!  You will see the difference both when the app goes into the background mode as well as when the app brings you back to the logon screen (if you use the password feature).

Facebook Integration is Removed

Another change that you will also notice is that all "Facebook shares" directly from the app has been removed.  While this might come as a sadness to some, we hope that after this explanation you will understand.  As of iOS9, Facebook requires that all apps register with them to get an ID number.  There needs to be a call back to Facebook that checks to make sure this app is valid by checking the ID number.

What this now does is make a permanant connection between the App and your Facebook ID.  In the PAST you could share directly to Facebook and there was no record of the recoveryBox app - In fact, Facebook didn't even know about the app.

With this new change by Facebook, we felt that is intrusive.  We PRIDE ourselves in keeping the data and anything related to recoveryBox completely private.  Because we don't control anything on Facebook's side we decided this was best.

recoveryBox and the developers NEVER see your data as it resides only on your device. We have no backend servers where your data resides - and this is completely for privacy reasons.

And so, while this feature was nice to have, you can accomplish the same thing by taking screen shots and then uploading them to Facebook. Sorry about the extra step - but, well, we hope you understand.

Please note..this does not have any affect on Twitter tweets. They do not have the same requirements as Facebook and so we decided to leave that in the app.

iOS9 Ready
Well, let's just say we did this :)

Bug Fixes 

• We fixed the bug where users could not edit custom triggers.  Opps.  Sorry about that.
• Also, added new logo image that was missing for Twitter Tweets
• Reduced memory footprint

Want to kick the addiction, hurt, habit, or hang-up? Download recoveryBox and be accountable.  

Visually Searching recoveryBox ~ Discovering our Habits

The power of recoveryBox, the addiction recovery toolset, is being able to understand our habits. If we are being diligent about what we are doing and being accountable, it will become obvious that are making progress by seeing your yellow/red lights diminish while the number of green lights (which are new healthy habits) continue to grow.

By looking at our new visual chart it's easy to see - wait, yellow lights always occur on Friday nights but only on weeks where (and you fill in the blank); or I see I'm not really tracking my lights on Wednesdays I see.

While it might sound obvious that we should know this already, it's often not. Those living in recovery for an addiction are usually living day by day and often hour by hour. So being able to see what's going on visually is an important part of the recovery process.

Are you ready to try recoveryBox?

Here is what one reviewer wrote recently when recoveryBox 5.0 came out.

Better and Better 

     

by Hunnybajjer

I appreciate that there is constant improvement on an already powerful and helpful app. You are always responding to feedback and making things better. Thanks for s great app.

We are listening and welcome all feedback. We want to make sure recoveryBox is not just another app - but an important tool as part of your recovery journey to living a life of freedom. Download it today!

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Tracking our Sobriety Anniversary Using recoveryBox

Sobriety Anniversaries are an important part of recovery. Don't let the addiction take the celebration out of recovery. Using recoveryBox, track one or more addictions and their anniversary dates. Add a motivating picture to get you through the hard time. See how to set it all up.

recoveryBox Accountability Feature - the key to recovery

Being accountable to someone is key to recovery for an addiction/habit, hurt or hang-up. Accountability could be a sponsor, accountability partner, or even a counselor that you meet with.

recoveryBox makes this simple and flexible/customizable. You decide what to include in the communication text/email by setting your preferences. Even set a daily/weekly reminder to send this off.

While developing this with counselors, it was decided that this feature should be initiated by the person using recoveryBox. Why? When users initiate accountability, compliance and ownership of recovery increases tremendously.

See how EASY it is to be accountable!  Truly! It is that easy!

Go ahead and make the investment in recoveryBox. It's less than the cup of a coffee!

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Working With Triggers in recoveryBox ~ Check Out the New How-To Videos Coming Soon

Amid making changes for iOS8 we were working on our new How-To video series that will incorporate all the new features we added into recoveryBox. The entire series is coming soon! Here is a sneak peek of working with triggers in recoveryBox.

iOS8 Support

recoveryBox Update for iOS8

Just waiting for Apple approval. When that happens I'll let you know!

Again thanks to users for testing as well as those who send in requests.

In this next release I have added the following based on user requests as well as bugs identified:

• iOS8 Support
• Adding Sobriety Time to Accountability Messages
• Ability to turn on/off Sobriety Time for accountability messages.
• Redid the Reminder Messages. For existing users, to take advantage of this, please reset either the Text/Email Accountability reminder And/Or (if you use both) the Add Lights Reminder.  If you are a new user..no worries this will happen automatically for you!
• Support for iPhone 6/6Plus larger screens
• Added more motivational quotes (many sent to me by users)
• Fixed crashing bugs when accessing certain resources
• Added a few additional badges
• Worked on better memory management for the entire app
• Crash when certain users create a text/email accountability message
• Fixed crash when certain users were editing their addictions
• Added a few additional badges
• Changed the Entry Method for the Number of Daily Lights of Green Lights to be more than 10. Will default to 1. An overwhelming number of users asked us to change this and we listened!! 
• And lastly, the Search Light Feature has a calendar that will display a total count of lights entered for the day. As well as give a visual color indicator of how your day went!!  

AND SURPRISE:: we have had a number of users as us to create some sort of calendar view so that you can visually see the number of lights entered as well as the over all color for the day. This will allow you to visually see if it's a day of the week that tends to be a yellow or perhaps red's always occur on weekends?

I love that so many of you continue to write in with your requests. One request that I am working on that has been requested is the ability to have How-To's in the video form. Hopefully that will be coming soon!

For now I wish you the best with your recovery!

PS. Of course we haven't been able to test the app on the iPhone 6 or 6Plus and all that testing has been done using simulators (which is not the same as the phone). If you have problems please let me know immediately so I can address them.  We are in the queue of getting one ourselves to test but even we have to wait like so many others.

recoveryBox named one of Healthline's 2014 Best Apps for Eating Disorders

recoveryBox has been named one of Healthline's Best Eating Disorder Apps for 2014.

Don't know how recoveryBox can help you?  Download it today and commit to making a change!

Eating disorders are usually not talked about openly. It’s a difficult subject to approach, which makes treatment and recovery even harder. But for the 24 million Americans suffering from an eating disorder, the condition is very real.

Recovering from an eating disorder requires a great deal of help from trained professionals. These apps are only a small part of a potential plan. But if you’re trying to get well, hopefully one of these can help in some small way.

For more information about recoveryBox, check out our website.

Did You Know??

That recoveryBox is available for both the iPad and iPhone?  And it has lots of new features... click on the links and check it out.

for the iPhone 

for the iPad 

Different looks but same great app!

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