Digital Resources
A guide on using technology to connect, learn, and grow in your recovery.
How Digital Resources Can Support Recovery:
Connection & Community
Video calls, texts, and emails can help maintain positive connections with friends, family, and recovery peers
Joining online recovery meetings (SMART etc.) keeps you connected even when you can’t attend in person
Education & Growth
Access recovery workbooks, webinars, podcasts, and e-books to strengthen your recovery
Watch video courses (for example, courses on recovery, mental health, or boundaries)
Join forums or private groups
Organisation & Routine
Use your phone or laptop for calendars, reminders, budgeting apps, and journaling tools.
Plan healthy routines
Set alarms for time management
Healthy Digital Habits For Recovery
Curate your social media feed
Follow accounts that inspire recovery, and unfollow ones that drain you
Set screen time limits
Prevent doom-scrolling/burnout
Turn off notifications
Reduce distractions
Choose connection over comparison
Prioritise supportive, positive interactions
Boundaries!
You don’t have to reply straight away
You can mute or block people who disrespect your boundaries
Schedule tech-free time to reconnect with yourself
Explore the Recovery Toolkit
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Self-Care
A gentle guide to self-care in recovery, with simple ideas, tools, and reminders that you are allowed to rest and heal.
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Journal and Reflection
Creative, trauma-informed journaling tools to help you express emotions, reflect on your journey, and reconnect with yourself.
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Family Relationships
Tools, including SMART family and friends, to encourage building and maintaining healthy relationships with those around you.
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Is This Helping Me or Harming Me?
A simple check-in tool to guide choices in recovery, helping you pause, reflect, and respond with self-compassion.
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Parenting
A gentle space for mums in recovery- offering support, reassurance, and tools to help you heal while showing up for your children.
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Recovery Workbook
A practical, empowering guide supporting alcohol and drug recovery through stories, reflection exercises, routines, self-awareness, connection, and community support.
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Opening Up
A guide to safely opening up to someone you trust, on your terms, without judgment or formal intervention.
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Mental Health and Wellbeing
Gentle tracking tools to help you notice emotional patterns and support your mental wellbeing day by day.
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Safety and Boundaries Kit
Practical tools and gentle guidance to help you set, hold, and communicate boundaries in everyday life and relationships.
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Relationships
Support for building healthy relationships and recognising abuse, reminding you that love shouldn’t hurt.
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Managing Money
Tools to help you budget and manage your money wisely.
