Recovery Coach · Glasgow
No script. No clinical voice. I spent three decades chasing the next hit and three and a half years learning how to show up instead. That's the whole qualification that matters.
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"My first principle in recovery wasn't honesty, and it wasn't any of the big words. It was just — show up. On time. For myself. For the people I'd let down."
Who I am
I'm not a guru and I'm not reciting a textbook at you. For most of my life the only principle I had was what I could get off someone to feed the addiction. That was it. That was the whole operating system.
Recovery gave me something simpler than I expected: reliability. Showing up when I said I would. Showing up for my family. Showing up for myself, which was somehow the hardest one. I'm still building on that, every day, three and a half years in.
These days I run We Do Unfiltered Lives CIC, I case manage for MAUNi / U-ACT, and I'm working through Zen Buddhism with a teacher — not because it's trendy, because it keeps my ego out of the way long enough to see the truth of things. Most days you'll find me clearing my head on a coastal walk before or after a session.
I'm not here to tell you my way is the only way. I'm here to tell you the truth, including the parts that aren't flattering, and to walk alongside while you figure out yours.
How I coach
I won't perform recovery at you. Here's what you actually get.
No jargon
If I can't say it the way I'd say it to a mate, I don't say it. You won't leave a conversation more confused than you started.
No clichés
Recovery has a whole vocabulary of hollow phrases. I've heard them all and I don't use them. You get what's actually true, even when it's uncomfortable.
No performance
I'm not curating a highlight reel of recovery. I'll tell you about the years I beat meetings I never showed up to, because that's where the useful part of the story is.
Real accountability
Showing up was the first thing recovery taught me. It's the first thing I ask of anyone I work with — and the first thing I model back.
Train with us
I didn't learn this from a textbook. I learned it in the room, then I trained properly so I could do it for a living. If you want the same path — coaching as a real, accountable profession — it starts here.
The certification covers everything I use with the people I coach — the same frameworks, the same accountability, none of the padding. Lived experience counts for something here. So does doing the actual work to back it up.
The community
One community, built on twenty-five years of doing the work, not theorising about it. People who get it, because they've been there. The same honesty you get from me, every day, from people who are actually in it with you.
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Talk to me
Available 24/7. No judgement. Twenty-five years of recovery wisdom behind every reply.