Resources
Resources
Explore resources that provide support and guidance for your wellness journey.
Books & Podcasts
Addiction & Behaivioural Issues Recovery Focused Books:
Dopamine Nation - Anna Lembke
Atomic Habits - James Clear
This Naked Mind - Annie Grace
Alcohol Explained - William Porter
Rewired - Erica Spiegelman
Unbroken Brain - Maia Szalavitz
Quit Like a Woman - Holly Whitaker
The Myth of Normal - Dr. Gabor Maté (Book Outline)
In The Realm Of Hungry Ghosts - Dr. Gabor Maté (Book Outline)
Rational Recovery - Jack Trimpey
The Biology of Desire - Marc Lewis
Never Enough - Judith Grisel
Wishful Drinking - Carry Fiscers
Hug The Cactus - Prickly Bits
The Crappy Childhood - Anna Runkle
Unbroken Brain - Maia Szalavitz
Break Your Self-Help Addiction - Brian D. Ridgway
We Are The Luckiest - Laura Mckowen
The Addictive Mind - Darrin Ford
Never Enough - Judith Grisel
Codependent No More - Melody Beattie
Unbroken Brain - Maia Szalavitz
Rewired - Erica Spiegelman
The Unexpected Joy Of Being Sober - Catherine Gray
How-Tos And Recovery Workbooks
The Food Addiction Recovery Workbook - Carolyn Coker Ross
The Addiction Recovery Workbook - Paula A. Freedman
The Addiction Recovery Skills Workbook - Suzette Glasner-Edwards
The Mindfulness Workbook For Addiction - Rebecca E. Williams
Rewired Workbook - Erica Spiegelman
Lgbtqi+ Themed Recovery Books
Gay Men And Substance Abuse - Michael Shelton
Fundamentals Of Lgbt Substance Use Disorders - Michael Finnegan
Accepting Ourselves And Others - Sheppard B Kominars
Mindfulness Themed Recovery Books
Mindful Recovery - Dr. Thomas Bien And Beverly Bien
The Mindful Path To Addiction Recovery - Dr. Lawrence Peltz
One Mindful Day At A Time - Dr. Alan D. Wolfelt
Short List Of Often Mentioned Podcasts:
Non Addiction Related:
Man's Search For Meaning - Viktor Frankl (About lifes purpose.)
No Bad Parts - Richard Schwartz (Understanding inner self with compassion.)
Journaling:
Stoic
Journal & Mental Health.
AI Journaling & Daily Diary.
At its heart, stoic helps you prepare for your day in the morning and reflect on your day in the evening. In the process, it also guides you to journal with thought-provoking prompts, build better habits, track your moods, and more.
The app has a beautiful, minimalistic UI app design; It's more than just a journaling app. You can view quotes and affirmations, do breathing exercises and meditate. There are also a bunch of guided journal topics, from stress and anxiety to self-discovery.
You can customise a plan for your day. The app guides you through each with a mood check-in, your focus of the day and journal prompts based on your answers. For example, if you say you want to focus on self-care today, the app will ask questions about self-care. You can also choose the questions the app will ask you each day.
Basic Usage Free
In-App Purchases
$6.99 - $199.99
Apple
Meditation:
Insight Timer
Meditation App.
Guided meditations, sleep music tracks and talks led by the top meditation and mindfulness experts, neuroscientists, psychologists and teachers from Stanford, Harvard, the University of Oxford and more. Music tracks from world-renowned artists. Learn to meditate on Insight Timer to help calm the mind, reduce anxiety, manage stress, and sleep deeply.
You can also journal and track your mood.
There are also many options to choose from, and the exercises can vary from 10 minutes to over an hour.
Basic Usage Free
In-app purchases
£1.68 – £189.99
Android
Apple
Mood Tracker:
Daylio
Daylio Journal & Diary is a very versatile app, and you can turn it in whatever you need to track. Your fitness goal pal. Your mental health coach. Your gratitude diary. Mood tracker. Your photo food log. Exercise, meditate, eat, and be grateful. Take care of your mental, emotional, and physical health. Good self-care is a key to improved mood and reduced anxiety.
This is the time for your well-being, self-improvement, and self-care. Use Daylio Diary as your daily bullet journal or goal tracker.
Basic Usage Free
In-app purchases
£0.79 - £49.99
Android
Apple
Support:
Wysa
Anxiety, therapy chatbot.
Struggling with anxiety, depression, stress or just need someone to talk to? Meet Wysa, your judgement-free AI friend & therapist who's ready to listen and help you feel better 24/7.
What makes Wysa unique is it provides therapy and counselling through conversation powered by emotional intelligence. Wysa isn't a simple therapy chatbot - it uses proven techniques like CBT, DBT and mindfulness designed by psychologists to help you improve your mental health.
Depending on your mood or what you want to focus on at the moment, it will suggest some breathing or meditation exercises, thought exercises, gratitude exercises and more.
The free version can a bit limited in terms of the exercises. There's an option to book a session with an actual therapist, but of course, it's a paid option.
Basic Usage Free
In-app purchases
£1.29 - £199.99
Android
Fun and Interactive:
Finch
Self-Care Pet.
Meet your new self-care best friend! Finch is a self-care pet app that helps you feel prepared and positive, one day at a time. Take care of your pet by taking care of yourself! Choose from a wide variety of daily self-care exercises personalised for you
If you want to practice self-care but find that all the other apps are boring or feel too serious or like a chore, then the Finch app is perfect for you! Basically, the app gives you a virtual pet to take care of, and the way only to do it is by completing self-care tasks such as meditating, light workouts, journaling, breathing exercises or completing goals.
When you open the app throughout the day, it'll ask you to note your mood or motivations so you can see how your mood has changed that day. You can also buy clothes and furniture for your pet using the in-game currency.
Basic Usage Free
In-app purchases
£1.99 - £244.99
Android
Apple
Self-Care Apps
Anxiety:
Mindshift
Anxiety Relief
Supported by Healthy Young Minds (Canada.) Mindshift is aimed at young people and helps learn about and cope with anxiety.
MindShift CBT is a free self-help anxiety relief app, that helps you reduce worry, stress, and panic by following evidence-based strategies. Using CBT tools, you can challenge negativity, learn more about anxiety, develop more effective ways of thinking, be mindful, and relax.
Learn more about anxiety, practice cognitive behavioural therapy, and reduce the amount of worry, panic, social anxiety, and discomfort from phobias that you experience.
Completely Free
Android
Moodfit
Everyone can benefit from reducing stress and improving the fitness of their mental health. If you're struggling, Moodfit can help you move toward thriving. If you're thriving, Moodfit can help you build the resilience to keep you there in the face of life's adversities.
This app is all about recognising and understanding the mood you're in. Users are required to enter mood diary entries throughout the day, and the app will then provide them with daily goals, gratitude exercises, and positive reinforcing messages.
In-app purchases
£8.99 - £34.99
Android
Depression:
Happify
Happify's science-based activities and games can help reduce stress, overcome negative thoughts, and build greater resilience by providing effective tools and programs to improve emotional well-being.
Simply put, Happify intends to help users overcome life's negativities, stresses and challenges. It enables you to break old habits to form new and happier feelings. They provide games and exercises to boost cognitive health.
Basic Usage Free
Subscription
$11.67+ Month
Android
Eating Disorders:
Nourishly
Aimed at improving relationships between patients and food, this app 'takes into account the whole person.' It tracks hunger and fullness, stress levels, sleep patterns, digestive problems and personal insights.
Whether you're struggling with your weight, trying to make dietary changes for medical reasons, trying to overcome digestive issues, or are working with a health professional and would like to ditch paper diaries, Nourishly is here to make it a whole lot easier!
Nourishly was built with input from leading dietitians, psychologists and researchers to bring together "what works"
Completely Free.
Android
Suicide Prevention:
Stay Alive
Stay Alive is a pocket suicide prevention resource for the UK, packed full of useful information and tools to help people stay safe in crisis. You can use it if you are having thoughts of suicide or if you are concerned about someone else who may be considering suicide.
It includes a safety strategy, a 'reasons for living' section that users can customise, and an all-important life box to store photos that mean something.
Completely Free.
Android
Talk Life
Talk Life is a safe and confidential place where those struggling with suicide can speak to people who care and who want to listen. Their large community has thousands of users who all share what's on their minds and support those in crisis.
It's your go-to place to talk about anything and everything judgment free - the tough times and the good stuff too. Dealing with anxiety, struggling with depression or just in a rough patch? You'll find people just like you who understand exactly what you're going through. TalkLife is all about real talk and real support. Feel like you’re having a panic attack at 3 AM, desperate for some shut eye but suffering insomnia, need to vent anonymously or share a win? This community is here for you, offering a listening ear and a place to belong, whenever you need it.
In-app purchases
£0.55 - £70.99
Android
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
PE COACH
US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)Designed specifically for those with PTSD, this PE coach app works with Prolonged Exposure techniques to help reduce distress and panic about a particular trauma. It enhances education about trauma, and is generally recommended alongside regular therapy.
PE Coach is designed to be used during therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with a health professional who is trained in Prolonged Exposure (PE) therapy. The app will guide you through the exercises assigned by your therapist and allows you to track and record your progress. In addition, the app provides techniques such as controlled breathing that will help you tolerate and decrease your distress. PE Coach will help you remember and track your upcoming therapy sessions. You will be able to audio record your sessions directly onto your phone so you can review them later as part of your treatment.
Completely Free
Android
Bi-polar Disorder:
eMoods
eMoods is a free mood and habit tracker app that lets you easily chart your daily outlook, productivity and motivation, depression and anxiety, sleep, nutrition, exercise, medications, substance use, news and social media exposure, and other factors that may affect your daily overall wellness.
This is a mood-tracking app specially designed for those living with bipolar disorder. Users can enter their mood daily or multiple times a day using a four-point scale of 'none' to 'severe.' Psychotic symptoms are also recorded, as well as behavioural data and sleep patterns.
In-app purchases
£0.99 - £5.99
Android
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Worry Watch
Mental Health Tracker, Journal
Built on the foundations of cognitive science, 'Worry Watch' app helps you manage anxiety and mood using: Guided Anxiety Journaling, Coping Techniques, Mood Check-In and Positive Reinforcements. The ultimate anxiety journal promises to challenge your negative thoughts and change them into pragmatic perspectives. It works in a four-step process: record what is bothering you; reflect if the outcome was as bad as you presumed; use a dashboard to reason with your thoughts; and lastly refute your worries by realising they were unfounded.
Basic Usage Free
Subscription
$2.99 - $11.99
Apple
Self-Harm Prevention:
Calm Harm
Manage self-harm
This app was designed solely to prevent self-harm by reducing urges and offering preventative techniques. Based on the principles of dialectical behavioural therapy, it provides users with a list of tasks they can utilise as distractions.
Calm Harm is an award-winning app developed for teenage mental health charity stem4 by Clinical Psychologist Dr. Nihara Krause, in collaboration with young people, using principles from the evidence-based Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT). It is built to NHS standards and approved by ORCHA.
Calm Harm provides some immediate techniques to help break the cycle of self-harm behaviours and explore underlying trigger factors; build a ‘safety net’ of helpful thoughts, behaviours and access to supportive people; and provides the opportunity to journal and self-reflect. It also provides signposts to help.
Completely Free.
Android
Panic Disorder:
Panic Shield
Panic Attack Aid
PanicShield contains 4 different tools to protect against panic attacks and panic disorder:
Guide: Learn about the mental mechanisms of panic attacks, how to use the other portions of this app, and find helpful internet resources.
Breathe: A simple paced breathing tool that can help calm you down before a potential panic attack or during a panic attack. Simply breathe in and out as the circle grows and shrinks.
Internal Exposure: Train your mind to not be afraid of certain internal bodily sensations that you may associate with an imminent panic attack. Based on interoceptive exposure therapy.
External Exposure: Train your mind to not fear certain external situations or activities that you may avoid out of fear of having a panic attack there. Based on systematic desensitization therapy.
Completely Free.
Android
Apps For Health Issues
Nomo
The app allows you to mark emotional turning points and share your feelings. You can share everything with anyone you want, such as friends, family members, your sponsor, etc., so they can join you on the journey.
It also functions as a sobriety clock, providing essential stats about your milestones, streaks, and money you saved by sobering.
While most addiction recovery apps are designed for those in recovery, Nomo is also designed for people supporting a family member or loved one through their recovery journey.
Perhaps its most tantalising feature is that it was designed by a recovering addict who understands the struggle.
The main component is the sobriety clock. This allows you to see your progress and share it with friends and family. Nomo tracks your streaks, money and time saved and milestones earned. You can also connect with an accountability partner and engage with an encouragement wall.
Nomo also includes an "activities refocus" feature to help keep your mind off cravings.
The Journal’ feature allows users to note emotional turning points they experience throughout the day. nomo also has an ‘Encourage’ section where you can share your daily thoughts and motivate others who are also using the app on their sobriety journey.
Basic Usage Free
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Apple
Android
Sober Time
Users can track their sobriety and personal achievements and connect with a whole community that supports and encourages their sobriety and celebrates milestones together.
Sober Time helps recover from serious addictions like substance abuse, alcoholism, drug abuse, smoking or self harm.
Sober Time has features such as built-in goals to help you stay on track. In addition, users receive daily motivational messages.
Features:
Sober day counter and sobriety tracker
Sober community
Track unlimited addictions
Daily motivation
Statistics and money saved
Sobriety milestones
Share your progress
Addiction recovery journal inspired.
Basic Usage Free.
In-App purchases
£0.59 - £28.99
Android
Apple
Sober
Sober provides you with the tools you need when a craving strikes. Open the app and choose the topic or issue you’re actively dealing with. What makes you want to use it once more? Sober will take that information and provide you with the tools you need to control your urges right away.
You can either use the app’s search feature or answer a few prompts to tell it how you feel. The sobriety counter and community forum allow you to discuss your recovery journey with your friends.
Sober was developed by researchers at Ohio University.
Sober also calculates how much money you have saved since getting sober and allows you to earn rewards for hitting various sobriety milestones.
Daily messages and notifications to promote recovery and help staying focused.
The app also features a journaling section and a game to distract yourself from uncomfortable cravings.
Sober is appropriate for many addictions or behaviours.
Basic Usage Free
(Paid services. USA)
Apple
Android
I Am Sober
In this app, you add what you’re getting sober from (list includes all the substances but also things like bread, sugar, caffeine, purging, self-harm) and your sober date.
You can track how long you’ve been sober and how much money you’ve saved. You can set a reminder to make a pledge each day to remain sober and can chat with others.
The app also partners with BetterHelp, an online counselling resource.
I Am Sober includes tools for forming new habits and connecting with a recovery community. It also has a withdrawal chart that outlines the withdrawal symptoms to expect at each step.
The app offers journaling features that allow you to take images, track your progress, and check your triggers.
Basic Usage Free.
In-App purchases:
£0.89 - £63.99
Apple
Android
Quitzilla
If you’re struggling with self-harming habits or addictions - Quitzilla is a habit tracker that can help you get your life back on track. It’s a habit-breaker app that aims to help users overcome self-harming or addictive behavior, stop bad habits for better self-control.
Helps you cut back on bad habits like smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, vaping, watching porn, eating unhealthy food, and more in order to live a healthier lifestyle.
Features of Quitzilla are like other applications, such as a sobriety tracker and a relapse prevention reminder
The habit-forming feature of this app is very noteworthy. This app questions you about your addictions and bad behaviors and then helps you break them. It keeps you focused on your "why" for being sober and rewards you for making progress toward new habits.
Basic Usage Free
In-App purchases
£7.99
Apple
Android
Loosid
Loosid is more than a sobriety tracker; it’s a complete addiction recovery app that brings people together with tools and resources for every journey stage:
Track & Celebrate Sober Milestones
Get Help Staying Sober
Connect With Sober Friends
Daily Tips And Motivation
Daily Gratitude
Expert Recovery Insights
Sober Activities Near You
Sober Dating Feature
Basic Usage Free
In-App Purchases
Subscriptions: Weekly to 6 Months
£0.99 - £134.99
Android
Apple
Recovery Apps
Hope
