Roots
Everything in Roots.
The 30-day path, ten short courses with five paths through them, six guides for hard moments, and every lesson recorded.
Start here · 30 days · one a day
The 30-day path
A one-minute read each day for your first month: noticing the pull, riding out urges, and keeping going, gently.
- Day 1Noticing is where it starts
- Day 2Urges move like waves
- Day 3The space between
- Day 4Find your moments
- Day 5Hungry, angry, lonely, tired
- and 25 more, to Day 30: Keep going, gently
Courses
Ten short courses, each five one-minute lessons on one theme, with something to try after each.
Not sure where to start?
Take the quick check in the app: three questions about when it’s hardest, where you are right now, and what would help most. Roots suggests a path to begin with, and your answers aren’t kept.
Bible verses, if you want them
If faith is part of your recovery, turn on Bible verses in Settings, and Grace and growth and The way out join the shelf, with verses from the World English Bible.
Five lessons each. Paths put a few of them in an order that builds.
5 lessons · 4 min
How the pull works
Cues, cravings, and the loop, and how to change it without fighting yourself.
5 lessons · 4 min
Nights and screens
Why late nights are harder, and a bedroom and wind-down that help.
5 lessons · 4 min
Stress and real rest
Telling rest from escape, and small ways to switch off for real.
5 lessons · 4 min
Lonely, not alone
What loneliness asks for, and small steps toward the people around you.
5 lessons · 4 min
Kinder after a slip
The morning after, the story you tell yourself, and coming back quickly.
5 lessons · 4 min
Honest with people you love
Why hiding feels safer, what to share, and rebuilding trust.
5 lessons · 4 min
A life worth showing up for
Values, things that absorb you, and who you’re becoming.
5 lessons · 4 min
Days with a shape
Mornings, movement, and a plan for the empty hours when the pull is strongest.
5 lessons · 4 min · With Bible verses on
Grace and growth
A Christian look at grace, confession, community, and prayer.
5 lessons · 5 min · With Bible verses on
The way out
A Christian look at temptation: the way of escape, fleeing, and walking by the Spirit.
Guides for hard moments
Not lessons: steps, for when you’re in the moment and need them.
When the urge hits
The first five minutes
Late at night
When it’s late and you’re alone
After a slip
What to do next
Before a hard weekend
Planning for risky stretches
Telling someone you trust
Making it lighter to carry
Lonely, bored, or stressed
Meeting the need underneath
Every lesson, recorded
Eighty recordings in a natural voice, part of the app, so they play without a connection.
Day 1 · Noticing is where it starts