Hey you! I'm Crystal.
In addition to having lived experience, I'm a Social Researcher and Creator of She's Recovered who is so passionate about helping you recover from alcohol addiction with a research-based approach.
Some Fun Facts About Me
💗 It take me about 5-10 seconds longer to get a joke when someone tells it and they may even need to repeat it, but I guarantee you, I laugh 10x louder and longer than anyone else in the room because I genuinely think it's so funny!
💗 The beach is my FAVORITE place, has been since I was a little girl visiting LBI, NJ ever summer, and will always be!
💗 I've been avoiding small talk since 1990, seriously though I HATEEE it. If deep conversations about why things work the way they do are your thing, I'm your gal!
💗 I'm a HUGE analytical and critical thinker, and although I love this about me, I also appreciate my hubby who is the exact opposite and who is also teaching me how to relax, lay back and just have fun! (Not to mention, I'm teaching him how to do my style too!)
💗 It's taken me over 3 decades to become the woman I am, I am incredibly grateful and I can finally say with a true and open heart - I love her!
💗 I'm certainly not where I want to be, but I am SO GRATEFUL I'm not where I used to be!
Here's My Story 🦋
Are you struggling to recover from alcohol addiction and no matter how hard you try, the traditional approach just won't work for you?
Tell me if this sounds familiar...
😩 Once you start drinking for the day you can't stop until you drop that evening, most of the time passing out cold
😩 You hate who you become and what you do when you drink too much
😩 You hide how much you drink from loved ones and friends because you're ashamed of how much you drink
😩 Whenever you attempt to abstain and be sober, you get strong and obsessive thoughts and cravings for alcohol all day, every day
😩 The only tools you've ever been given are willpower, white knuckling, grit, accountability and fear, but they are no match for those strong and obsessive thoughts and cravings for alcohol that come all day, every day
I know, I've been here myself.
Hey you, I'm Crystal!
In addition to having lived experience, I am a 🤓 Social Researcher, 🎤 Speaker, 🎙 Host of the She's Recovered Podcast and the 🦋 Creator of She's Recovered who is so passionate about helping those with alcohol addiction recover with a research-based approach.
My passion comes from my personal experience of suffering from a nearly 10-year long, nasty alcohol addiction where I could not get better no matter what I did and how hard I tried through the traditional approach until I found what I now call research-based approaches to alcohol addiction recovery which enabled me to get better in just 3 short months, stay recovered ever since and now I go years without even thinking of alcohol and if and when I want I am able to enjoy it like a "normal drinker". I know, it sounds like a miracle ✨, but it's just science. 🤓
AND I 💯% believe this can be for you too!
Take my hand 🤝, I've got you. Let's recover! 🦋
Imagine if...
🦋 You could abstain from alcohol entirely and be sober
...but in a way where you could actually be successful and have a good quality of life, without the strong and obsessive thoughts and cravings for alcohol
🦋 Or maybe you want to become a "normal drinker"
...where you could moderate your alcohol consumption and enjoy a drink or 2, and then seemingly effortless and with such ease be able to stop
🦋 Or maybe you want to do it like me and go years without even thinking of alcohol (it not even be a thought)
...and then if and when you want, be able to enjoy alcohol like a "normal drinker"
There is a much better, more effective way that will work for you and make this your reality, it's called research-based approaches to alcohol addiction recovery which unlike the traditional approach, does work for most people.
I am living proof.
You've tried...
😫 Going to support groups such as AA and Celebrate Recovery, but that hasn't helped much
😫 Therapy or counseling and although it's been helpful to understand yourself and your experiences better, it hasn't helped your alcohol addiction
😫 Doctors or psychiatrists, but they haven't been able to help you kick the alcohol addiction either
😫 Going to church and to the front after service for prayer, praying on your own, but you are still suffering
😫 Journaling, mindfulness meditation and #allthethings, but you have still made no headway with recovering
Nothing has worked for you and you feel like there's no way out.
If the traditional approach has not worked for you, you're not alone, the research tells us it doesn't work for most people.