The Peer Services Department at the Worcester Recovery Center and Hospital (WRCH) compiled this list of resources for our friends and family in recovery.
Apps:
- Aloe Bud- daily reminders that can be set for any habit you want to practice…drinking more water, reaching out to friends, etc. and encourages you to celebrate small victories
- White Noise Lite – white noise for sleeping
- Deeply – guided meditations and mindfulness
- Calm – meditations and mindfulness
- Breathe – guided breathing exercises
- Reflectly – journal app that allows you to track how you are feeling each day
Virtual Recovery Programs:
- Alcoholics Anonymous: Offers online support
- Cocaine Anonymous: Offers online support and services
- LifeRing: LifeRing Secular Recovery offers online support
- In The Rooms – Online Recovery Meetings: Provides online support through live meetings and discussion groups
- Marijuana Anonymous: Offers virtual support
- Narcotics Anonymous: Offers a variety of online and skype meeting options
- Reddit Recovery: Offers a virtual hang out and support during recovery
- Refuge Recovery: Provides online and virtual support
- Self-Management and Recovery Training (SMART) Recovery: Offers global community of mutual-support groups, forums including a chat room and message board
- SoberCity: Offers an online support and recovery community
- Sobergrid: Offers an online platform to help anyone get sober and stay sober
- Soberistas: Provides a women-only international online recovery community
- Sober Recovery: Provides an online forum for those in recovery and their friends and family
- We Connect Recovery: Provides daily online recovery groups for those with substance use and mental illness
- Unity Recovery + WEconnect + Alano Club: Providing daily virtual meeting for those in recovery and for their family members
Recovery Resources and Supports:
- The National Alliance for Mental Illness
(NAMI) HelpLine Coronavirus Information and Resources Guide (PDF) - Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation contains online support meetings, blogs, mobile apps, social media groups, and movie suggestions, including the online support community,
- Shatterproof: “How I’m Coping with COVID-19 and Social Isolation as a Person in Long-Term Recovery” provides helpful suggestions
- The Chopra Center: “Anxious About the Coronavirus? Here Are Eight Practical Tips on How to Stay Calm and Support Your Immune System.”