Six members, in their own words.

I had tried four mood apps before Your Business, and every single one of them felt like graded homework. There was a streak. There was a number going up or down. There was a little gold circle judging me on a Sunday at 11pm when I had not opened it in a week. They were all built like fitness apps, and the truth is, my mood is not a workout.

I came across Your Business through my therapist, who showed me hers during a session — the chart, not the journal. The chart looked like a tide. Not a stock chart. Not a streak. A tide. And she said, "you can use this between us, and you can show it to me, or not." That was the first time anyone had asked me what I wanted to do with the data instead of telling me.

It took about six weeks before I noticed the pattern that surprised me — my hardest evenings happened on Mondays where I had skipped lunch. Six weeks. Not a streak. A pattern.

I'm a writer. I notice when something is written carefully. The prompts in Your Business are written carefully. I don't know who Dr. Bartlett is, but the grief prompts she wrote are the ones I keep coming back to, and I lost my mom three years ago. They sound like a person who has done the work, not a content team.

The thing I'd say to anyone considering this: you don't have to be in crisis to use it. I'm not. I'm fine. I'm just a person, and this is the first app on my phone that treats me like one.

I work nights. I have worked nights for six years. The thing nobody tells you about night shifts is that you don't lose sleep — you lose sequence. You stop knowing whether yesterday was Tuesday or Friday, and you stop knowing whether you feel awful because of the shift or because of life.

The Your Business check-in takes me ninety seconds. I do it before I drive home. I'd say I do it four nights a week. Some weeks more. The thing it has given me is a sequence. I can scroll back and see — oh, the night I came home and felt like I might cry on the M62, that was the third 13-hour shift in a row, and I had eaten a cereal bar and a banana between 8pm and 8am.

I am not going to claim Your Business fixed anything. What it did was give me a record. And a record is what you bring to a doctor.

I bought my partner a year of Plus for her birthday. She used it for about two months and decided it wasn't for her. She still uses the breathing exercises. The 4-7-8 one. She does it before meetings.

I'm a divorce attorney who got divorced. The irony was not lost on me. I started using Your Business the week I moved out, and at first I used it as a holding pen — somewhere to put the sentence I couldn't say to my kids or my sister or my colleagues. The journal became the place where I told the truth.

What I didn't expect was the matching feature. I had been seeing the same therapist for nine years and I outgrew her sometime in year three of the divorce — but I felt loyal, and I didn't know how to start over. Your Business matched me with three new therapists based on the kind of work I said I wanted to do. I picked Reuben. I've been with him fourteen months. He is exactly the right person for this stretch of my life.

There's a thing the app does where it shows you a journal entry from a year ago, gently. The first time it showed me one I cried in my car for eleven minutes. It was a Tuesday.

I tell my friends about this app constantly, but I tell them carefully. It's not therapy. It's the thing that holds the line between sessions.

I am sober eighteen years. Eighteen years of meetings, sponsors, sponsees, the whole thing. My sponsor Tony is who told me about Your Business, and Tony is not a digital guy. He bought a flip phone last year because he wanted to. So when Tony told me to download an app, I downloaded the app.

What I use it for is the morning check-in. I don't journal. The journal is not for me. The check-in is. I do it before I make coffee. It takes about twenty seconds. The reason I do it is because, in year two of recovery, you stop knowing what your baseline feels like, and you can drift for two months without noticing.

A check-in a day, a meeting a week, a phone call to my sponsor every Sunday. That's the maintenance. The check-in is the cheapest part of it.

I share my chart with my sponsor once a quarter. He looks at it for about thirty seconds. He says, "you good?" and I say "yeah, I'm good," and that's the end of the conversation. It still helps.

I have ADHD. This is not a surprise to anyone who knows me. I have tried to keep a journal probably seventeen times in my life, and every single time I've gotten about four days in and lost the notebook or forgotten the password or moved on to a new system. Your Business is the first thing I have stuck with for more than two weeks, and I think it's because the bar is so low.

The bar is: tap one of five faces. That's it. I can do that. Some days I do the prompt. Most days I don't. The chart still works.

It's the first wellness thing I've ever used that doesn't punish me for being inconsistent. Inconsistency is my brain. Inconsistency is the feature, not the bug.

I'm in finals right now, and I have my phone on do-not-disturb except for the Your Business check-in window, 9 to 10am. It's the only notification I let through. I don't open Instagram for two weeks at a time. The check-in is my one thing.

My husband died in 2019. I did not feel anything for about eighteen months. Then in 2020 I felt everything, and it lasted three years, and somewhere in there I forgot what a Tuesday was supposed to feel like. My granddaughter showed me Your Business on a visit. She said, "Mamie, you don't have to write anything. You just push the face."

I push the face every morning now. I have pushed the face seven hundred and forty-one times. The chart is a long, low line that I can read like a weather map. There were six months in 2024 where the line was very flat and very low. My therapist saw it and said, "we should talk about this," and we did, and I started taking a small dose of an antidepressant, and the line came up.

I am sixty-seven years old. I never thought I would say a phone app helped me. The phone app helped me.

The voice journaling feature I use sometimes when I cannot sleep. I record myself talking to him. I do not always finish. The app does not mind.