Field Guide to Life: Recovery

Without a doubt, these are tough times. Self-care is critical. Finding calm amidst the chaos, staying on track in your recovery from addiction, and remaining centered are important goals. Field Guide to Life is an app intended for daily use by those who are new to recovery, but can be used by anyone seeking to stay grounded—both in recovery and in today’s high-anxiety daily life.

Created by Hazelden Publishing, the Field Guide to Life app includes inspiring daily messages that can be shared with friends, a sober counter visible anytime you open the app, a handy list of the Twelve Steps, videos featuring recovery experts, a customizable home screen, and more. No in-app purchase or subscription is required.

KEY FEATURES
• Daily guidance and inspiration: A full year of inspirational messages and activities to support your first year of recovery.
• Favorites and share: Save and retrieve your favorite daily messages and share them with your friends.
• Daily reminders: Set the time of day to receive a notification to read the daily message.
• Videos: Hear positive messages from recovery experts and others in recovery.
• Sober counter: Enter your sober birthday so you can view your sober stats anytime you open the app.
• Stop cravings, stay motivated: Upload images of family, friends, passions, and whatever else keeps you motivated in order to help stop cravings.
• Progress tracker: Track your obstacles in recovery such as stress, anger, and anxiety. Also track the ways you tackle those challenges such as meditation, honesty, and exercise.
• Your support system: Reach out to your support system, such as a sponsor, at the touch of the SOS button.
• Relapse prevention: Know what causes relapse and create a response plan to avoid it.

The White House Behavioral Health Patient Empowerment Challenge award was presented to Hazelden Publishing for its Field Guide to Life app for providing crucial first-year support to people newly recovering from addiction.