Rachelle Ford- Solo Track

Back2Me is a trauma-informed recovery companion for adults navigating trauma bonds, and the painful push-and-pull of leaving a relationship that hurts but still pulls you back. The problem: leaving isn't one decision, it's dozens of hard moments. In those moments, people reach for something private and immediate; and what exists today mostly fails them: account-based apps that store your diary in the cloud, streak counters that turn healing into a score to lose, and open-ended AI chats that act like therapists. None of that fits a moment when you need to steady yourself, decide one next step, and move on with your day. Back2Me is built for that moment. It opens to a garden, not a dashboard. A one-tap "I feel the pull" button starts a guided flow: safety triage first, then grounding, naming the need underneath the pull, checking your contact plan, and landing on one workable action with the option to save it under a PIN or let it go. A daily check-in, five guided exercises, and a support hub with crisis resources and professional-support prep round it out. Everything is local-first: no account, no streaks, no scores, PIN-encrypted journals, and a quick exit on every screen that jumps to a neutral gallery. The AI guide, built with Meta's Muse Spark through a Firebase Cloud Function, is deliberately constrained: it only supports guided exercises, never diagnoses, never decides whether someone is safe, never attempts memory recovery, and stops the exercise and routes to human help the moment someone signals they can't stay safe. It is educational support, not a therapist, not a treatment, and it never pretends otherwise. Back2Me was built in Flutter for iOS, Android, and web, with the AI guide wired through Meta's Model API with App Check enforced and the key held in Secret Manager.