Anchor: Understanding Cravings

Cravings often come in waves: they rise, peak and change again. Anchor helps you watch that wave instead of fighting it. THE GUIDED TIMER A craving turns up. Instead of fighting it, you start the timer and are walked through the wave with spoken guidance: where in your body do you feel it? What is your breath doing? The wave gets watched, not fought. LOGGED IN 20 SECONDS Intensity, feeling, trigger, how it went. Short enough that you actually do it, even at half past nine on the sofa. YOUR OWN RHYTHM After a handful of entries, Anchor shows when cravings typically show up for you. Not as a verdict but as a weather report: around 9pm it often gets choppy, plan something in. IF-THEN PLANS "If I get restless in the evening, then I make myself a tea." Plans made in advance mean you don't have to invent them in the hard moment. THE FOUNDATIONS Short lessons, one a day (week 1 free, week 2 with Premium): what a craving is, why fighting it often does not help, how a body scan works. With questions that score nothing and store nothing. Where a study is named, so is what it does not show. WHAT IT BUILDS ON Urge surfing comes from relapse prevention and is part of MBRP (Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention). Anchor is not a medical device and does not replace treatment. Free to use. The timer works without an account. You can export or delete your data at any time.