For anyone looking to break out of the addictive cycle but doesn't want to be forced into a “One size fits all” recovery program

 

Recovery Coaching With Amber

A program designed to build you up NOT tear you down!



 

 

From: The desk of Amber Hollingsworth

Re: Ending the spiral of failed recovery attempts for good

 

After 20+ years of helping addicted individuals conquer addictions, this is the most important thing I’ve learned: 

You DON'T need someone else to make you feel bad about yourself or try to force you into doing things you don't want to do.  

 

If you've been struggling with addiction, you already feel bad enough about yourself.  And I'm sure plenty of people have been trying to force you to do things their way.   

Unfortunately, many addiction counselors feel like it's their job to make you stop engaging in addictive behavior.  Their self-worth is tied to your sobriety.  This dilemma creates much internal pressure for them, which then rolls down to you.   

I see the situation a quite differently.  

I don't even think addiction is necessarily a bad thing. Our brains are wired to become fixated on things. It's these psychological mechanisms that cause us to fall in love, care for our children, build business, invent new technologies, etc... 

  

Some addictions will actually bring you great joy, recognition, and a sense of purpose. While other addictions are more self-destructive. They make you feel terrible about yourself (and everyone else, for that matter!)  

  

The key isn't to become some perfectly "balanced" person.  The key is to use your addictive nature for the betterment of yourself and others.  When you can direct your addictive energy in a positive direction, and you'll actually feel proud of yourself instead of shameful and resentful.  

  

My goal is to simply help you find more productive ways of feeling better. 

  

Together we'll figure out how to get you out of this crappy situation.  So you can harness your unique abilities to fuel positive feelings for yourself and the people you care about. 

 

Client Testimonal

"My mother first introduced me to Amber YouTube videos.  Her words really resonated with me. Unlike other encounters where there was resistance and a sense of control, Amber's approach felt genuine and aligned with my beliefs. She offers authentic conversation and effective strategies to help you achieve your goals. I highly recommend this program if you are seeking guidance and support in taking the right steps towards what you want."

Recovery shouldn't feel like a punishment.

Have you had bad experiences with "getting help" in the past?

That's probably beause people have attempted to help you by trying to convince you that you're bad, and that you have to follow a specific program to get better. 

There are so many flaws in that thinking, I don't even have the time to tell you all of them. But, I'll let you in on a few of them.

  1. It's true that harmful addictions make people do bad things, like sabotage yourself (and the people around you). However, positive addictions can make you do good things. 
  2. Trying to make people change only triggers their instinct to maintain a sense of control, which results in an increased need to cling to and justify counterproductive behaviors and beliefs, even when they know it would be in their best interest.
  3. Making someone feel bad about themselves will only make them want to self-medicate more.
  4. There's no specific addiction treatment program that will fix your addiction.  You inherently know what you need to do to stop the negative additive cycle. It's just a matter of making the decision to do it and keeping yourself motivated to stay consistent. 

In case you haven't already noticed, I'm not on board with most of the contemporary philosophies about addiction treatment.

 

Here's what I DON'T believe:

  • I don't believe you're powerless.
  • I don't think you need to hit bottom to make a change.
  • I don't believe everyone has to work a 12-step program.
  • I don't believe that all addiction comes from trauma. 
  • I don't even believe that people have to go to treatment to get better. 

 

Here's what I DO Believe:

  • I believe negative addictions will stand in the way of positive addictions.
  • I believe people naturally have the motivation to break their harmful addictions and that you already know how to do it.
  • I believe addiction is actually a natural state for human beings.  Like so many other things, it can work for us or against us. 
  • I think recovery works best when the family knows how to encourage and support you.
  • I believe the best way to help people overcome negative addictions is to help redirect their obsessive tendencies. 

 

Client testimonal

"The ability to engage in candid and honest conversations has enabled me to pinpoint my true desires. I appreciate the raw transparency that has granted me the freedom to discuss long-held thoughts. Amber is truly remarkable. Our genuine conversation was invaluable, and I am grateful for her insights. She has a wealth of wisdom to offer the world."

*Important Notice

We can only accept 4 new recovery coaching clients per month.  

If you're wanting to start this mon (or next), you need to fill out the application now.  

 

Apply For Yourself (or a Loved One)

I want to give you the tools, tech, and expert 1-1 coaching, to finally get clear on EXACTLY what your strengths, weaknesses, and core motivations are.

 

Together we can quickly put a Custom made, One-of-a-kind recovery “Battle Plan” tailored for your specific personality type.

 

One that for the first time in your life, you know for certain

 

Works FOR you, not AGAINST you.

 

A plan that, for the first time ever, caters perfectly to your unique character strengths

 

Whilst addressing any negative addictions that might be on track to sabotaging you. 

  

 A custom-made key to finally open the door to a life of sobriety.

 

So, if you are ready to finally leave the negative addictions behind for good and begin living the life of freedom, peace, and joy you know you deserve…

 

Then this is for you.

 Discover more about yourself in just 4 short weeks, than you have in the last 4 years…

  

You'll walk away with a tailored recovery battle-plan fuilt around your personal strengths, whilst also supporting any hidden weaknesses.  

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Find the Right Path for You: 

Embarking on a recovery journey is a deeply personal experience, and we understand that each person's needs and goals are unique. That’s why we offer tailored program lengths to fit your individual journey:

  • 4-Week Program: Perfect for those looking for an introductory experience or a jumpstart in their recovery. This intensive program will help you establish foundational skills and gain clarity on your path forward.

  • 8-Week Program: This option allows for a deeper exploration of your strengths and challenges. Ideal for those who want to build on the foundational work, the 8-week program focuses on developing new habits and enhancing your coping strategies, giving you the time to solidify your progress.

  • 12-Week Program: Commit to a comprehensive, transformative journey with our 12-week option. This program provides ample time for introspection, skill refinement, and the opportunity to fully embrace your evolving identity. You’ll leave with a solid foundation for sustainable recovery and the tools to navigate life’s complexities.

Personalized and Flexible Journey

We understand that recovery is not a one-size-fits-all process. While we provide structured phases and goals to guide your journey, each person’s experience is unique. We remain committed to adapting our approach to meet your individual needs and preferences.

Weeks 1-4

Phase 1: Gaining Clarity and Increasing Motivation

If you’re struggling to overcome an addiction, it’s probably NOT because you don’t know how to stop. More often, it’s due to mixed feelings about the issue. Some days, it feels overwhelming; other days, it seems manageable. Your motivation can fluctuate, and with friends or family urging you to change, it’s easy to feel confused and lost.

That’s why the first four weeks of our program are dedicated to gaining clarity. We'll assess the severity of addictive behaviors you're battling.  In addition to that we'll be exploring your core values, strengths, and motivations. This process will help you define what you truly want and why it matters to you.

Why Focus on Clarity?

Addictions often begin as coping mechanisms. They might help alleviate anxiety, enhance social interactions, provide temporary relief, or boost energy during long workdays. Initially, these behaviors or substances serve a purpose. However, as they become more central to your life, they can overshadow relationships, self-esteem, and personal goals. You may wake up one day feeling disconnected from who you truly are. My goal is to help you reconnect with your authentic self.

How We Achieve This

During these first four weeks, you’ll engage in a structured approach that includes:

  1. Weekly Coaching Sessions: We will meet individually (in person or via Zoom) to discuss your feelings, progress, and insights. Each session is a safe space for you to express yourself and explore your journey.

  2. Online Video Lessons and Journaling Assignments: These resources will guide you through reflective exercises to deepen your understanding of your strengths and motivations.

  3. Comprehensive Assessments: You’ll complete several assessments to help identify your strengths, clarify your goals, and uncover potential roadblocks:

    • Addiction Severity Index (ASI): This assessment provides a thorough overview of your situation by examining seven key areas:

      • Medical
      • Work/Financial Stress
      • Substance Use
      • Motivation for Change
      • Legal Stressors
      • Family/Social Supports and Stressors
      • Mental Health
    • Enneagram Personality Assessment: This tool helps you understand your personality type and its influence on your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. By identifying your core motivations and fears, you’ll gain valuable insights into your unique way of relating to the world and can harness this understanding to support your recovery.

    • Strengths Finder: This assessment identifies your natural strengths and talents. Understanding your strengths allows you to leverage them in your recovery process, empowering you to focus on what you do best and how you can use those qualities to navigate challenges effectively.

Weeks 4-8

Phase 2: Building New Habits and Overcoming Obstacles

The road to recovery isn't always a straight path; it’s a dynamic journey filled with twists, turns, and opportunities for growth. In the next four weeks of our program, we’ll focus on building new habits and routines that will support your recovery, while also addressing the obstacles that may arise along the way.

Ironing Out the Kinks

As you start to implement new strategies and coping skills, you might encounter difficulties. Together, we will navigate these challenges head-on, helping you to overcome roadblocks that could disrupt your progress. Here’s what we’ll focus on during this essential phase of your journey:

  1. Rebuilding Trust: Whether it’s with yourself, your loved ones, or your community, trust is vital for recovery. We’ll explore ways to rebuild this trust, fostering stronger connections with those who matter most.

  2. Relapse Prevention: Understanding the warning signs of potential relapse is crucial. We’ll work together to develop personalized prevention strategies, ensuring you have the tools to stay on course even when faced with temptation.

  3. Solidifying New Coping Skills: You’ll refine the coping strategies you’ve started to develop, practicing and reinforcing these skills until they become second nature. This will equip you to handle stressors and triggers effectively.

  4. Navigating Social Situations: Socializing can be challenging during recovery. We’ll discuss how to manage social events, including how much to share about your journey and how to create supportive environments for yourself.

Engage in Your Transformation

This four-week period is your opportunity to embrace change and deepen your commitment to recovery. Together, we’ll celebrate your successes, tackle any challenges, and create a solid foundation for your new way of living. You’ll leave this phase feeling more empowered, resilient, and prepared to navigate life’s complexities with confidence.

Are you ready to tackle the challenges of recovery and build a brighter future? Let’s move forward together and turn obstacles into stepping stones on your journey to success!

Weeks 9-12

Phase 3: Gaining Momentum and Discovering Your Authentic Self

As you enter the Gaining Momentum phase, this is where the transformative journey of recovery truly begins to take shape. You will notice significant changes not just in your routines but in how you view yourself and engage with the world around you. This phase is all about rediscovering your interests, managing emotions, and embracing your new identity.

Key Components 

  1. Exploration of Interests:

    • Identifying Likes and Dislikes: As you navigate this phase, you’ll take the time to explore what activities and experiences resonate with you. This process helps you reconnect with hobbies, interests, and passions that may have been overshadowed by addiction.
    • Trying New Things: You’ll be encouraged to step outside your comfort zone and experiment with new experiences, allowing you to discover what brings you joy and fulfillment.
  2. Understanding Emotions:

    • Emotional Awareness: Learn to recognize and deal with difficult emotions such as resentment, disappointment, and jealousy, anger, sadness, etc... Understanding these feelings is crucial for managing them effectively.
    • Coping Strategies: We’ll work on developing strategies to cope with challenging emotions, transforming them into tools for growth rather than obstacles in your path.
  3. Finding Excitement and Joy:

    • Cultivating Joy: Create rituals or practices that invite joy and excitement back into your life. This might include pursuing activities that uplift you, spending time with supportive people, or finding new outlets for creativity.
  4. Navigating Relationship Changes:

    • Reevaluating Connections: Reflect on how your relationships may change as you heal. Some connections might deepen, while others may shift or fade. We’ll explore how to navigate these changes with grace and understanding.
    • Communicating Needs: Develop skills to communicate your feelings and boundaries in relationships, fostering healthier connections with those around you.

       

  5. Celebrating Progress:

    • Acknowledgment of Change: Regularly reflect on your growth and the positive changes you’ve made. Celebrate small wins and milestones that signify your journey towards rediscovering joy and authenticity.
    • Building a Supportive Community: Engage with others who are on similar journeys, creating a network of support and shared experiences.
  6. Embracing Your New Path:

    • Creating Your Future: Actively envision and articulate your goals for the future, grounded in your new interests and values. This reflection helps you to cement your evolving identity within the context of your recovery.

Experience the Transformation

The Discovering Your Authentic Self phase is about getting comfortable with the new you—emotionally, socially, and spiritually. As you learn to manage difficult emotions, rediscover what brings you joy, and navigate changes in your relationships, you’ll find yourself feeling more empowered and connected to your true self.

Let this phase be a celebration of growth and excitement! Are you ready to embrace the journey of self-discovery and reclaim your joy? Together, we'll explore the vibrant life that awaits you on the other side of recovery!

Evaluation Results

 You'll receive copies of each assessment including:

  • Addiction Severity Index
  • Clifton Strengths Finder
  • Enneagram Personality Type
  • Relational Style
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Client Review

"Initially, I chose this program because I felt it would better fit than group therapy. I’m so glad I did. Amber wasn’t pushy like a lot of other addiction professionals. She listened to what I had to say and focused on my strengths instead of what I did wrong.  If you want personalized help for addiction, this is the right program for you."

 

 

But wait, there's more...

 

Because I want to arm you with the most effective tools and knowledge possible, I will also be giving you lifetime access to TWO of my most popular and comprehensive self-recovery programs at the end of our 4 weeks together, completely for free! 

 

Here’s what I’m going to give you:

 

Full access to the “Recovery to Go” online course:

 

This deep dive recovery goldmine is for anyone who’s decided they want to take control over an addictive behavior but doesn’t want to do it under the constraints of a treatment center. Find your own road to recovery, from the comfort and safety of your own home. 

 

Full lifetime access to the “RecoverU” online course:

 

RecoverU will help you take everything you learned from your Enneagram Assessment and apply it to your recovery process.  

 

*Loved ones are also allowed particpate in RecoverU, if you'd like. They'll be able to identify their Enneagram personality type as well. This will allow you to talk much more openly about your needs, wants, fears, and desires for the future. 

RecoverU is for anyone looking to become the best version of themselves via self-analysis, subconscious exploration, and much, much more…

 

These programs are the perfect addition to add to your arsenal after a fully customized plan and assessment.

 

This will be where you can start putting everything you learned (in our 4 weeks of coaching) into action!  

This will help you accelerate your recovery process, all without ever needing to go to groups, spend time away from friends and family, and spill your most private personal details to a bunch of strangers at a treatment center. 

 

Recovery to Go and RecoverU are some of our most popular and effective programs, which is why I’m giving you total lifetime access, completely for free. 

 

Let’s build a  recovery plan that focuses on your strengths instead of your weaknesses!

Yes! I’m ready to leave addiction behind for good!
4 Weeks Coaching with Amber
 
 $4,094 Value

 For only $1,997

 

  • Full access to the Addiction Severity Index test plus expert results breakdown and post-assessment coaching 

 

  • Full access to Strengths Finder Assessment and Personality Assessments 

     
  • Full lifetime access to the “Recovery to Go” online course   

 

  • Full lifetime access to the “RecoverU” online course 

     
  •  4 one on one “specialist breakdown” coaching sessions with Amber 

     
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8 Weeks Coaching with Amber
 
 $ 7381 Value

 For only $3694

 

  • Full access to the Addiction Severity Index test plus expert results breakdown and post-assessment coaching 

 

  • Full access to Strengths Finder Assessment and Personality Assessments 

     
  • Full lifetime access to the “Recovery to Go” online course  

      

  • Full lifetime access to the “RecoverU” online course

     
  • Up to 8 One on One Coaching Sessions With Amber 

     
  • Weekly text updates directly with Amber 

   

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12 Weeks Coaching with Amber
 
 $13,743 Value

 For only $5,532

 

  • Full access to the Addiction Severity Index test plus expert results breakdown and post-assessment coaching 

 

  • Full access to Strengths Finder Assessment and Personality Assessments 

     
  • Full lifetime access to the “Recovery to Go” online course  

      

  • Full lifetime access to the “RecoverU” online course

     
  • Up to 12 One on One Coaching Sessions With Amber 

     
  • Weekly text updates directly with Amber 

 

  • Up to 5 email coaching sessions with Amber 

 

  • Full lifetime access to Rapid Relationship Repair

      
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Client testimonal

"I feel so comfortable telling Amber stuff I would normally just keep inside, and I feel her confidence kind of expand in me when I do speak honestly. She knows how to ask the right question at the right time. I have nothing to hide, and for as long as I can remember, no one would ask me questions like that for fear of the truth. It would freak them out,"

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"Amber always makes feel encouraged that I can be successful in recovery."

 

"I cannot tell you how much I appreciate Amber. She is smart, compassionate, and full of wisdom and great advice. She has helped me navigate my own addiction and provided support as it related to my son’s issues. I am forever grateful that so found her."

 

"The confidence I get from every session with Amber is allowing me to move positively forward , accept my poor decisions and think clearly to not repeat the past. Very grateful for her guidance"