Spot what sets me off
Nobody knows your routes but you. Map the times, places and routines that pull at you, and what you’ll do instead. It starts empty on purpose.
Kept on this device and added to your record on the You page.
Yours
Nothing mapped yet
A pattern is a situation that tends to go a certain way: a time, a place, a routine. You know yours better than any tool would guess.
If it helps to see one
Read more about patterns
The times, places, and habits that drinking wired into you. You can't break a loop you can't see — so this is about seeing them clearly first.
Alcohol cravings: how to get past the first 20 minutes
A craving replays the first twenty minutes of a drink and cuts the tape there. Running it forward shows you the rest of the evening.
What do you do with the hours drinking used to take?
Drinking took more than the evenings. It took planning, errands and attention, all day. When it stops, that time and energy has to go somewhere.
I ran the same lie twice
The second time, I could see myself doing exactly what I'd done the first time. I did it anyway.
I had the store clerks' schedules memorized
The loop doesn't feel like a loop from inside it. It feels like solving problems.