Beyond Abstinence: Living Sober with Purpose

Recover Yourself: Out from Under the Influence

If you’re interested in a walkthrough of Yana, I encourage you to check out this episode on YouTube. Just jump to the 26th minute, and to watch as Tyler walks me through the essentials of Yana and addresses its platform directly.

Tyler Matheny is a co-founder of Yana (You Are Not Alone) which is a program agnostic activity app for the sober community. Tyler helps us define some of the major differences between the terms: abstinence, sobriety, and recovery. Tyler faces his recovery, like many who venture on this path, with the backing of AA. After some time he found that it wasn’t working for him, but he then learned that he was working AA.

It is important to recognize if we are working AA or just trying it. No matter where we find ourselves along the journey if we join a group, or take a course, or buy a product, and expect that to be the end of the conversation, we haven’t been paying attention. We are going to have to work and work hard, first for our sobriety, and then our recovery. Having apps like Yana, and podcasts like this one, communities like AA or S.M.A.R.T. are all aids in the journey. Without you, and your dedication to continuing to do the work, those things can do nothing.

Join Yana Here get.yanaapp.com/share/-sLJZGqweBqibOpz

As an aside, all groups, products, courses, or anything we use as a booster to get us to another level, are not the end. There are limits to everything outside of yourself. You will grow to the limits of the groups, communities, and products that have aided your growth. When you reach that limit, and this is at the core of all that Recover Yourself is about (which is why I mention it) you will have to reevaluate your relationship with it. Does that mean you have to leave? No, not at all, but it is your job to keep growing and that has to come before dogma, rules, tradition, or any other underlining belief in things outside of yourself.

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