Stop one thing. Start with one moment it happens in.
You can't practise not doing something; on a good day nothing happens at all. What you can practise is what you do instead, and the place for that is the situation.
A plan, after a week
- When I sit down after dinner
- I make tea before I sit down
- In scope
- When I get in the car on my own
- The phone goes in the glovebox first
- Named
- When it's late and I'm still up
- The charger stays in the hall
- Named
You name the thing, then the situations it happens in, and for each one what you'll do there instead. Mini Breaks works on one of them at a time and brings the next in as the first goes quiet.
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One moment first
Covering four situations at once means four chances a day to find there was no plan for this one. The rest stay named, and come in as the first goes quiet.
02
The plan gets bigger, not harder
Progress here is more of your week covered, never more asked of you. Nothing in the app suggests wanting it less, or trying harder.
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Two questions a day
Did it happen, and how much did you want to. A day where nothing came up and a day you spent wanting it are completely different days, and one question can't tell them apart.
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For the moment it's happening
One button says it's coming up. It gives you your own plan for the situation you're in, and nothing else. It is never counted, and nothing mentions it again.
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No counter, ever
No day count, no reset, no score, no money saved. Nothing here can go back to zero. If it happens, the app changes the plan and asks you nothing about yourself.
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When the plan needs changing
When one situation keeps coming up, Mini Breaks says what it noticed and suggests something: somewhere different to keep it, something else to do instead, a situation to leave alone for now. Nothing changes until you agree to it.
What you write stays on your phone. The thing you're stopping, the situations, what you do instead and anything you write are kept on the device. The app does report anonymous counts (whether setup finished, whether a suggestion was accepted) and never a word you wrote. The privacy policy lists what that covers.
On newer iPhones the wording is done on the device. It is only the wording; what Mini Breaks suggests comes from your own answers.
Mini Breaks is not a treatment, a programme or a substitute for help. It makes no health claim, and it gives no advice about you.