A 6-Month, Peer-Informed Recovery Planner
Your pace. Your words. Your journey.
The Peer Planner™ is a recovery planner created by a peer in long-term recovery. It gives your days structure, your weeks a rhythm, and your next six months a direction you choose. One method, four editions: General, Outpatient, Forensics, and Youth.
Pre-orders are open. The General and Youth Editions are $24.99. The Forensics and Outpatient Editions (black & white) are $19.99. Mix editions in any order.
Pre-order nowWhat it is
Six months, three phases, one planner that belongs to you
Each phase asks a little less of the planner and a little more of you. You start with the most structure and finish with a plan in your own words.
Months 1–2 · Weeks 1–8
Grounding
Finding your footing
Structure and awareness. A full 24-hour daily view helps you see how your time is spent and notice what affects you.
Months 3–4 · Weeks 9–17
Building
Growing your skills
Practice and adjustment. Try new ways to cope, communicate, set boundaries, and solve problems, then change what doesn't fit.
Months 5–6 · Weeks 18–26
Sustaining
Shifting from managing to living
Ownership and continuation. Decide what to keep, how you'll adapt when life changes, and what you're building toward.
Why six months?
Six months of showing up for yourself, with support along the way
This isn’t about fixing yourself. It’s about giving yourself steady time and attention. Six months is long enough for small, intentional moments to become part of your life, and long enough to build the support that helps you keep going.
About how long it took for a daily routine to start feeling natural in a well-known study. Some people got there in 18 days, others in 254. Every pace counts.
Lally et al., 2010The average time for a healthy routine to settle in across studies in a 2024 research review. Steady, everyday attention adds up.
Singh et al., 2024In the Stages of Change model, the first six months of living differently is a stage of its own: a season for practicing, with room to learn as you go.
Prochaska & DiClemente, Stages of ChangeShow up for yourself. Small, intentional routines and a clearer picture of your days.
Lean on what helps. Practice, adjust, and make support part of the plan.
Carry it forward. Keep what works, and the people who help you keep going.
Miss a day? Pick up where you left off. In the research, one missed day didn’t undo the progress.
Sources: Lally et al., European Journal of Social Psychology (2010) · Singh et al., Healthcare (2024) · Transtheoretical Model, University of Rhode Island Cancer Prevention Research Center. These studies looked at everyday routines and health behaviors. Everyone’s timeline is different, and the planner moves at your pace.
Many pathways. No one recovers the same.
Meet the creator
Built with lived experience.
Roxanne Stegall is a Certified Peer Specialist, a Forensic Peer Mentor, and a person in long-term recovery. She believes recovery is real, that there are many pathways to it, and that no one recovers the same. She created The Peer Planner as one more tool for the community she serves.
Roxanne Stegall, CPS-MH, FPM · Creator of The Peer Planner
The editions
One method, four lived contexts
Every edition keeps the same 26 weeks, three phases, and seven-day rhythm. What changes is the language, the examples, and the plan you carry forward, so the planner fits where you are.
Grounding → Building → Sustaining
For adults in everyday recovery and anyone focused on personal growth.
Treatment → Practice → Everyday Life
For people in PHP, IOP, step-down, and community outpatient programs.
Structure set for you → structure you choose
For people with justice involvement: in a facility, in programming, on supervision, in reentry, or in the community.
Getting to Know Me → Becoming More Me
For young people ages 13–17, in language written for them.
Ready to begin?
Choose your edition
Pre-order any of the four editions today. Mix editions in any order and choose how many of each.
All four editions are also available on Amazon.
Pre-orders expected to ship November–December 2026. · See sample pages (PDF)
Ordering 10 or more copies for a team, agency, facility, or program? Request bulk pricing.