There aren’t rules or deadlines — just a willingness and desire for change.
Recovery Today offers private, customized coaching, in-person or online, for individuals who want to stop or reduce drinking in order to regain control of their lives. PJ Galligan is a Certified Addiction Recovery Coach and sought-after local speaker who uses his decades of experiences in addiction and recovery to help others make positive changes that lead to healing, health, and happiness.
Practical Support to Help You Move Forward
Alcohol recovery coaching supports you as you set and achieve recovery-related goals. These can be focused on sobriety, health, academics, career, finances, rebuilding relationships – whatever is most important and meaningful to you. As a Certified Addiction Recovery Coach, I will work one-on-one with you to do the things most of us in recovery need help with:
- Define goals and steps toward them
- Identify potential triggers and challenges that might jeopardize your recovery
- Develop coping strategies for stressfull situations
- Create healthy boundaries and habits
- Explore other resources and treatment options that can offer additional support, like a psychologist, psychiatrist, sponsor, rehabilitation facility, etc.
Unlike when you work with a therapist or clinician, we won’t focus much on what led you to start drinking or how you got where you are. We’re working on your next chapter – where you want to be and how to get there. Along the way, I will serve as your sounding board, mentor and accountability partner, and help you stay motivated. Having been there myself, I am uniquely positioned to do this, without judgement.
“I was the client and now I’m the coach”
MEET PJ
My journey with recovery started in 2020 when I checked into my first rehab. It was a painful moment driven by a family intervention, but I wasn’t ready to admit the problem everyone around me saw. I went back a few months later, and after several more trips to detox, rehab and the hospital, my final detox visit was in 2023, right before my daughter was born. I have not had a drink since.
Today, I am proud to be a Certified Recovery Coach and very involved in the local community, volunteering my time at facilities and meetings where I connect with others in recovery and share my experience as a way to offer strength and hope. To let go of the past, reclaim my life, and start a new chapter is an incredible gift in and of itself. Beyond that, helping individuals and families do the same as a coach and a speaker allows me to turn my own experiences into something truly meaningful. I hope to witness a butterfly effect as others I help recover turn around and give back. I am incredibly grateful for the trust my clients place in me.
I spend my time working, working on my recovery, paying it forward in the recovery community, and doing things I enjoy: spending time with my daughter, partner, family, and friends, playing golf, catching a Yankees game, cooking, and traveling to Ireland to see family when I can. I appreciate the small joys in life and the very significant rewards of recovery.
If I have learned one thing, it’s that we require support on this journey. The connections I made and the help I got in recovery inspired me to become a source of support for others as they seek to make changes in their own lives.
IS COACHING FOR YOU?
Individuals with varying degrees of alcohol dependency or addiction, and in all stages of recovery, can benefit from a coach. Whether you feel your drinking is “starting to be too much,” have already been to rehab or are experiencing a relapse, know that drinking has damaged your life or relationships, or have recently stopped drinking and need an accountability partner, I can assist you. The only qualifying factor is that you want to stop or cut back on drinking. There aren’t rules or deadlines – just a willingness and desire for change.
- Is alcohol a problem for me?
- It affects my job or personal relationships.
- Friends or family express concern.
- I drive under the influence.
- I wake up not feeling well.
- I behave in ways I’m not proud of.
- My life sometimes feels unmanageable or out of control.
If you answered yes to any of these statements, and are ready for a change, a recovery coach will be a great tool for you. If appropriate, I will also help expand your support network, whether that means finding the right medical or therapeutic professionals or encouraging you to seek the support of loved ones and get involved in the local recovery community.