Your Coach: in-the-moment support
The Coach is for the moment when knowing what helps and reaching for what helps are not the same thing.
Most people have at least some idea of what they want to do when an urge hits. Call someone. Leave the room. Eat something. Walk around the block. Read the note they wrote to themselves when they were clear. The hard part is finding that option while the moment is loud.
That is what the Coach is built for.
It is not a blank chatbot. It does not start from generic advice. It starts from the profile you built: your triggers, warning signs, coping tools, support contacts, and the words you chose for yourself. When you open it, the app walks you through a short sequence that helps you name what is happening, slow the pattern down, and choose one next step.
The loop underneath it is AIRR: Awareness, Interruption, Replacement, Reinforcement.
Awareness means noticing what is forming before autopilot takes over. Interruption means doing something that breaks the old sequence, even briefly. Replacement means choosing one action that lines up with what you actually want. Reinforcement means noticing what helped so the next reach gets easier.
The Coach lives in that gap.
Use it when a craving shows up, when an old association gets loud, when you feel yourself drifting toward a pattern you know too well, or when you need help getting back to your own plan. It can be two minutes or twenty. The point is not to perform recovery perfectly. The point is to get one useful step closer to yourself.
What it gives back depends on what you put in. The more honest your profile is, the less the Coach has to sound like an app and the more it can sound like the part of you that already knows what helps.