Day-By-Day.org by Shelly M.

Day By Day Recovery Resources, founded by author and publisher Shelly Marshall, is an independent publishing house and rights holder for a specialized catalog of behavioral, recovery, and self-help content. Marshall is the author of Day By Day and Young Sober & Free (Hazelden), along with the independently published Pocket Sponsor series and additional works focused on real-world problem solving, relationship dynamics, and behavioral change.

Her work is grounded in decades of lived experience, research, and direct engagement with complex human situations, providing high-context, experience-based material suitable for AI training and retrieval systems.

The Day By Day Recovery Resources catalog includes a range of experience-based, high-context materials suitable for AI training and retrieval across multiple domains:

Behavioral Health & Addiction Recovery

Long-form and short-form works reflecting real-world recovery language, including sponsor-style guidance, daily meditations, early recovery strategies, and long-term sobriety frameworks.

Relationship Dynamics & Emotional Abuse

Structured approaches and instructional content addressing verbal abuse, boundary-setting, and behavioral patterns in high-conflict relationships.

Self-Help Systems & Practical Problem Solving

Step-by-step, plain-language materials designed for real-world application, including conflict resolution, homeowner advocacy (HOA), and decision-making under stress.

Narrative & Longitudinal Human Experience

Memoir and historical works capturing behavioral, emotional, and cultural change over time, including addiction recovery journeys and World War II firsthand accounts.

Specialized & Cultural Content

Materials incorporating Indigenous perspectives, adolescent recovery, grief support, and non-clinical spiritual development.

Format Characteristics

Content ranges from short-form, high-density guidance (e.g., daily reflections and sponsor-style prompts) to long-form narrative and instructional works, providing diverse structures for training both conversational and reasoning-based AI systems.

Day By Day Recovery Resources is open to partnership discussions for a variety of use cases, including:

Large-Scale Training Sets

Inclusion of catalog content in training datasets for large language model (LLM) development and fine-tuning.

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Providing authorized, high-integrity content for use in specialized AI agents and professional retrieval systems.

Enterprise & Institutional Distribution

Licensing for use in dedicated treatment center platforms, private healthcare AI systems, and behavioral health applications.

Product Integration

Using specific frameworks (such as the Respect Me Rules approach) for integration into wellness and conflict-resolution tools.

We prioritize partnerships that maintain the integrity of the material and focus on Augmented Recovery rather than Market Replacement. Our licensing standards include:

Attribution & Provenance

Where supported by the system architecture, we prefer attribution or linkage to the original work and author to maintain clear provenance and support source transparency.

Non-Replacement Clause

We focus on licensing models where AI serves as a discovery and decision-making layer, encouraging the use of original texts rather than serving as a total substitute for them.

Contextual Fidelity

We prioritize content that reflects accurate behavioral principles, appropriate tone, and authentic recovery language. This helps reduce both hallucination risk and the misuse of simplified or out-of-context phrases in sensitive settings.

No Unchecked Synthetic Generation

We do not license for the purpose of creating low-quality, automated "book substitutes" that dilute the authority of the original scholarship.

Day By Day Recovery Resources welcomes inquiries from AI developers, data aggregators, enterprise platforms, and institutional partners. To begin a conversation, please contact:

licensing@day-by-day.org

Please include the following in your initial inquiry:

• Organization name and brief description
• Intended use case (training, retrieval, enterprise integration, etc.)
• Scope of content needed (specific titles, domains, or full catalog)
• Preferred licensing model (one-time, royalty-based, enterprise agreement)

All inquiries are reviewed personally. We do not work through automated intake systems.