If you've found yourself here, there's a good chance you're searching for something.
Maybe you're looking for hope. Maybe you're wondering if your relationship with alcohol or another substance has become something more than you ever intended. Or maybe you're simply exhausted from trying to figure it out on your own.
If that's where you are, I want you to know something…
I understand.
Not because I've read about addiction in a textbook. Not because someone trained me to say the right things. I understand because I've walked that road myself.
For much of my life, I carried around a story about myself that wasn't true. As a young person, I struggled with feelings of not being good enough. I constantly questioned my worth and measured myself against impossible standards that I had created in my own mind. I believed that if I could simply achieve more, work harder, and become successful enough, I could silence the fear that I was somehow letting people down.
That pressure created anxiety, fear, and an overwhelming need to prove myself.
Years later, in my fifties, I learned that I had lived most of my life with undiagnosed ADHD. Suddenly, many of the struggles I had experienced began to make sense. While the diagnosis explained how my brain worked, it didn't excuse the choices I made—but it did help me understand why I had developed certain ways of coping.
Like many people, I discovered alcohol in my early teens.
At first, it seemed harmless. Then it became something I relied on socially. Over many years, social drinking slowly became binge drinking, and eventually I found myself living with a substance use disorder.
It didn't happen overnight.
It happened one decision at a time.
Your Next Step Starts with a Conversation
If you've read this far, perhaps something in my story resonated with you. Maybe you've seen yourself in parts of my journey. Maybe you're wondering whether life could be different. Or perhaps you're reaching out on behalf of someone you love.
Wherever you are today, I want you to know that you don't have to have all the answers before taking the next step. Recovery doesn't begin when you have everything figured out. It begins when you're willing to have an honest conversation about where you are and where you want your life to go.
As a Recovery Coach, my role isn't to tell you what to do or convince you that there's only one way to recover. My role is to walk alongside you—to listen without judgment, help you discover your own strengths, and support you as you build a recovery plan that reflects your values, your goals, and the life you want to create.
Whether you're exploring sobriety, questioning your relationship with alcohol or other substances, returning to recovery after a relapse, or simply looking for someone who understands, I'm here to meet you exactly where you are.
You don't have to walk this journey alone. I'd be honoured to walk beside you.