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Honest pieces about addiction, recovery, and the quiet moments in between. Written for the person in it, and the person walking alongside.

The Founder's Story

Three Years, One Relapse, Still Here

I relapsed three years ago and I am in the third year since. A relapse does not zero the counter, whatever the counter says. This piece is about what I learned about my own dopamine, and what I put in the space the chaos used to take up.

7 min read · 1 Sept 2026

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The Founder's Story

They Sounded Exactly Like Me

I did not walk into that room because I thought I had a problem. I sat at the back and somebody I had never met described my own week back to me, in my own sentences, and the floor went out. This is the piece where the word finally arrived.

6 min read · 27 Aug 2026

The Founder's Story

It Was Never The Money

I traded stocks and forex and made a lot of money doing it, and it proved nothing, because winning is the best camouflage an addiction can buy. Then I lost it. The losing did not feel like the opposite of the winning, and that is the sentence this piece is about.

7 min read · 25 Aug 2026

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The Founder's Story

The Bad Day That Lasted Years

From the inside there is no diagnosis. There is a bad Tuesday, then a bad month, and the story you tell yourself about a run of bad days is that it will turn. This is the first of four pieces about how I missed it in myself for years, and why almost everyone does.

6 min read · 22 Aug 2026

How to Break a Social Media Addiction

Add friction, block the apps, and replace the habit. Here's a plain, step-by-step way to stop the endless scroll and get your attention back.

6 min read · 10 Aug 2026

Free Sobriety Tracker Apps: What's Actually Free

Yes, several genuinely free sobriety trackers exist. Here are the honest free picks, what each free tier really gives you, and where the paywalls hide.

6 min read · 8 Aug 2026

How to Be a Good Accountability Partner

You don't need to be a therapist. Agree the terms, check in often, listen without lecturing, stay honest, and hold your own boundaries. Here's how.

6 min read · 6 Aug 2026

How to Stop Watching Porn: A Step-by-Step Plan

A calm, no-shame plan to stop watching porn: block easy access, learn your triggers, replace the ritual, get support, and plan for slips.

6 min read · 4 Aug 2026

I Am Sober Alternatives Worth Trying

I Am Sober does the counter and community well. If you need multi-addiction tracking, blocking, or a supporter side, here are honest alternatives.

6 min read · 2 Aug 2026

How to Block Triggering Sites and Apps on Your Phone

Use built-in Screen Time or Digital Wellbeing controls, add a recovery blocker, set gambling and bank blocks, and let someone else hold the passcode.

6 min read · 31 Jul 2026

How to Stop Drinking Without Rehab

Yes, many people quit or cut back at home. Check your withdrawal risk first, then build a plan, remove the drink, and lean on support.

6 min read · 29 Jul 2026

The Best Accountability and Blocker Apps for Recovery

The best accountability apps are Covenant Eyes and Ever Accountable; the best blockers are Gamban and Freedom. Here's how they differ and where each fits.

6 min read · 27 Jul 2026

Accountability in Recovery: Why It Works

Recovery gets harder alone. Here's why accountability works, how it counters isolation and self-deception, and how to build it without losing your privacy.

6 min read · 25 Jul 2026

How to Stop Gambling

Stop gambling by self-excluding with GAMSTOP, blocking gambling sites and apps, setting bank gambling blocks, telling someone about the money, and getting support.

6 min read · 23 Jul 2026

Recovery Apps for Multiple Addictions

Most recovery apps handle one thing. A few track several at once. Here's what to look for and which apps genuinely support more than one addiction.

6 min read · 21 Jul 2026

How App and Website Blockers Help Recovery

App blockers cut off triggering apps and sites at the moment willpower is weakest, adding friction that buys time for the urge to pass. Here's how.

6 min read · 19 Jul 2026

How to Quit Any Addiction: A Practical Guide

You quit an addiction by deciding, removing access, telling someone, replacing the behaviour, getting support, and planning for relapse. Here's how.

6 min read · 17 Jul 2026

The Best Recovery Apps in 2026

The best recovery app depends on what you're recovering from. Here's an honest look at nine, from single-focus trackers to all-in-one support.

6 min read · 15 Jul 2026

Do Sobriety Trackers Actually Work?

Short answer: yes, as one tool. Tracking is an evidence-based way to change behaviour. But a counter alone isn't treatment. Here's what it can and can't do.

6 min read · 13 Jul 2026

Addiction Support: Every Kind of Help, Explained

Crisis lines, fellowships, professional treatment, family support and digital tools. What each one offers, what it costs, and where to start tonight.

6 min read · 13 Jul 2026

Can an AI Companion Help With Addiction Recovery?

Yes, with limits. AI chat can offer round-the-clock company and coping practice in recovery, but it must never replace therapy, sponsors, or crisis lines.

6 min read · 13 Jul 2026

An App for the Families of People in Recovery

Yes, they exist. A good one gives you your own account, shows what your loved one chooses to share, and supports you too. Here's what to look for.

6 min read · 13 Jul 2026

Setting Boundaries With Someone in Addiction

A boundary is a rule about your own behaviour, not a punishment of theirs. Here's how to set limits you can keep, without guilt, and keep loving them.

6 min read · 13 Jul 2026

What to Say to Someone Who Relapsed

Start with 'thank you for telling me' and 'this doesn't mean you've failed.' No shame, no lecture. Then help them take one step back toward support.

6 min read · 13 Jul 2026

How to Help Without Enabling

Enabling shields someone from consequences. Supporting helps them face them. Here's how to love someone in recovery without carrying their addiction.

6 min read · 13 Jul 2026

How to Support Someone in Recovery

Learn what recovery involves, listen without fixing, hold steady boundaries, and look after yourself. Honest, practical help for partners, parents and friends.

6 min read · 13 Jul 2026

What to Do After a Relapse

A slip does not erase your progress. Here is what to do in the first hour, the first day, and the first week, without drowning in shame.

7 min read · 9 Jul 2026

The HALT Method

Four ordinary states make cravings feel unbearable. HALT is a sixty-second check-in that asks which one you are ignoring before you make a decision you will regret.

5 min read · 9 Jul 2026

Urge Surfing

Cravings rise like waves. Urge surfing teaches you to stay on the board, breathe through the peak, and let the pull pass without acting on it.

6 min read · 9 Jul 2026

What to Do When You Want to Relapse

The urge feels permanent. It is not. Here is a calm, step-by-step path for the next twenty minutes, when giving in feels like the only way to make the noise stop.

6 min read · 9 Jul 2026

How to Prevent Relapse

Relapse is common in recovery, not a moral failure. A written plan for your triggers, coping skills, and support network gives you something to reach for when the moment gets loud.

7 min read · 9 Jul 2026

Danger Zones: How Geofencing Protects Recovery

Some places pull harder than others. Danger zones let you mark them, so your recovery gets a quiet heads-up before you walk in. Here's how it works.

5 min read · 9 Jul 2026

How to Track Multiple Addictions at Once

Most trackers give you one counter. If you're in recovery from more than one thing, here's how to track several at once, honestly, in one place.

5 min read · 9 Jul 2026

Behavioral vs Substance Addiction, Explained

Gambling, gaming, drinking, drugs. Different objects, same brain circuit. Here is the honest difference, and why recovery has to hold both.

6 min read · 9 Jul 2026

What Is Cross-Addiction?

Cross-addiction is when recovery from one addiction quietly opens the door to another. Here is why it happens, what to watch for, and how to stay ahead of it.

6 min read · 9 Jul 2026

One Recovery App for Every Addiction

Most recovery apps cover one thing. Renovyn holds every addiction in one place, because the wiring underneath rarely stays in a single lane. Free to start.

6 min read · 9 Jul 2026

A Campaign Piece

Four Minutes

Minute one is fine. Minute four is the one nobody talks about. A piece on the four-minute window between a craving and a relapse, the question that lives inside it, and the exact people you can reach for tonight, whichever room you walked in from.

5 min read · 4 May 2026

A Campaign Piece

Things I Thought Were Normal

Normal looks different in every house. A piece on the shape your addiction took, the people who survived it with you, and a small place to start tonight, whether it's drink, gambling, drugs, cocaine, the phone in your hand, or the noise inside your own head.

6 min read · 30 Apr 2026

A Campaign Piece

My Mind Is A Complex Design

There is a sentence people in recovery rarely say out loud. A piece on the wiring that hijacks us, and why the only honest response is a recovery built for every mind.

3 min read · 15 Apr 2026