Like many highly sensitive, under-supported and high-functioning women, Kristy turned to alcohol to cope with the stress of life, with grief, anxiety, and a deteriorating relationship with her mother.

Alcohol helped her cope with issues she didn’t want to address. And it worked really well - until it didn’t. Deep shame, brutal hangovers and an existential crisis of “is this it? is this my life??” caused her to realize that she was the creator of (and answer to) her problems. When she started taking radical responsibility for her life and started digging deep into the roots of her need to escape…her whole life shifted. It is now her privilege to share her lived experience and help others do the same through coaching + mentorship.

Kristy got sober in 2019 after an unrequited love affair with sober curiosity and received her recovery coach training from the Connecticut Community for Addictions and Recovery in the fall of 2021. She also holds a M.Ed in Adult Education.

Kristy writes and speaks publicly about grey-area drinking. She believes education and shame-reduction are paramount when it comes to making recovery possible for people who often feel like they’re not in a great place, but not “bad enough” to get help.

She created Sober Soulmate because it was the space she was looking for four years ago. She needed a soft place to land as she navigated sobriety without AA, grieved profound loss, and started to accept the reality of dysfunctional maternal dynamics. From her own experience and those of the brave folks she works with, she sees the close and often inevitable ties between alcohol use disorder (AUD) and mother wounding.

Kristy is a deep feeler, a loud laugher, and is ever in search of the truth. She loves and appreciates a good sense of humour, early bedtimes and the phrase “s l o w e r i s f a s t e r.”