meet arielle
Hi friend! I’m Arielle. I got sober over eleven years ago, and I did it inside one of the most alcohol soaked careers there is, running corporate events at hotels all over the world.
I know what it takes to get free, and to stay free out in the real world. Not in a bubble. In your actual life.
So I trained to do this properly. I became a Certified Professional Recovery Coach and a Certified Professional Life Coach, because I believe you need both. One to help you stop. One to help you build something worth staying sober for.
That’s the work. That’s what we do together.
how I got here
For about ten years, drinking and I were a package deal.
It started normal. Social, fun, the thing everybody was doing. And then somewhere in my twenties it quietly stopped being fun and became the thing my whole life was built around. From the outside I was fine. Better than fine. I had a big career running events at beautiful hotels all over the world. That's the trick of high functioning drinking. You can look completely put together while the whole thing underneath is quietly organized around the next drink. I made rules and I broke them. I moderated, I promised, I white knuckled, and every promise had the same short shelf life. Because here's the truth I couldn't say out loud yet. I wasn't managing my drinking. It was managing me.
Eventually the rules stopped working entirely, and it ended the only way it could. What happened wasn't defeat. It was surrender, and those are not the same thing. It was me finally putting down a fight I'd been losing for years. I went to rehab, ninety days in the mountains of British Columbia. I walked in unable to picture a single day worth living sober, and I walked out starting to suspect I'd had it all backwards. That was eleven years ago.
what I do now
life on the other side wasn’t smaller, it was enormous
Everything I was terrified I’d lose, the fun, the spark, the adventure, I didn’t lose. I got it back in a fuller and more vivid form than the counterfeit version alcohol had been selling me.
And once I was genuinely thriving, I found I could not not help other people find their way to the same thing. So I went back to school. I got certified as a life and sobriety coach. I got trained to teach recovery tools. And I started coaching people through the terrifying first weeks back in the real world, and every stage that comes after.
I’m based in South Florida, where my own sober life looks like sunrises on the beach, padel on ordinary Tuesdays, travel I’m actually present for, and a community I love. I coach clients wherever they are, in person and by phone or video.
I can never unsee what I’ve seen in sobriety. I’ve spent over a decade showing it to people. Let me show it to you.
why work with me?
Certified Professional Recovery Coach and Certified Professional Life Coach, with training grounded in ICF, NAADAC, and NET Institute standards.
Eleven plus years sober, enough road behind me to help you find yours.
Trained in proven tools including SMART Recovery, so your plan rests on more than willpower.
Years of walking alongside people through the hardest, most pivotal moments of their lives, across the US, Canada, and Europe.
Author of The Sober Explorer, a field guide to building a beautiful life after drinking.
let’s chat
Let’s book a free 20 minute call for us together.
