Recover with Tamara

Recover with Tamara I have been sober since May 6, 2009 and have been building a life of purpose. I am a licensed and internationally certified Addictions Therapist.

Online Counselor & Coach
Specializing in Addiction
Trauma Informed Practitioner
Arizona Life https://www.tamarakirby.com/ This Page is to support people who want to grow. I first managed my own trauma hidden by years of unhealed abuse of alcohol and drugs. Then, through my process of recovery and by working with thousands of people with substance use disorders, I have supplemented my practical knowledge and skills through clinical training, research, and education. I work with people in all stages of recovery world wide. Intensive coaching is offered to those who are just getting started. Then later, deeper dives may be taken to address irrational beliefs, unresolved childhood trauma, relational and financial concerns. I help clients learn that alcohol and drugs are not the problem alone. Substance abuse is also a reaction to past trauma that may have caused irrational and limiting beliefs, an overactive nervous system, and emotional dysregulation. I help my clients move through the healing process with integrative work on the mind, body, and spirit. Through healing comes a purposeful life. I live in Phoenix, AZ where I enjoy each day as an emotionally sober woman. I spend my free time hiking, biking, creating new friendships, serving my community and living a purposeful life. My greatest reward in life is the restoration of my relationship with my daughter. Addiction and my unhealed past prevented me from being the mother that I always wanted to be, but through recovery this relationship has blossomed and is beyond my wildest dreams. Today, my life has meaning and purpose and I strive to help others achieve the same fulfillment that I have in my life.

02/17/2026

I felt so much shame around my drinking. I didn't realize that my drinking was actually a diagnosable illness with real symptoms and that I was not alone in this suffering.

02/09/2026

What are you using alcohol for?

Maybe for fun?

Maybe as a social lubricant?

Maybe so you are not so stressed out?

Any way you cut it, you are using it to manage how you FEEEEEL!

That means if you are going to stop, you are going to need different tools.

What feelings do you use alcohol to manage?

Post below👇

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02/05/2026

An attitude of grattitude can make a change in your whole day.

It doesn't mean every things perfect, it just means you can find a few blessings no matter what life throws at you.

What you are grateful for today? Post below 👇

01/29/2026

Why we over and over again go back to the drink, we are conditioned to believe that drinking is fun, we are missing out if we don't drink, and to fit in we must drink. Not true, huge lie that the Beverage companies market to us, they make billions on this. Challenge your thinking. Want to learn the exact process to do this? comment PROCESS below.



01/28/2026

Putting off the drink.
Building that toolkit. Be sure to write your tool kit down.

I would live to hear what you have used in the past to put off the drink. Be sure to share below 👇

This mornings sunrise, just a brief moment, when I was able to catch this during my morning meditation. Sunrises have al...
01/28/2026

This mornings sunrise, just a brief moment, when I was able to catch this during my morning meditation.

Sunrises have always been special to me since I got sober, it was the first thing I noticed when I stopped being hungover in the morning.

Over 16 years have passed and I still find them as glorious as I did in the first days of sobriety.

01/27/2026

What are recovery habits?

Do you want to know more?

Comment MORE and I'll send you a list of recovery habits to practice!

01/26/2026

Why doesn't just stopping drinking solve the drink problem?

Has this happened to you? What was the thought you had that took you back to the drink? Post Below 👇

01/23/2026

Are you still working through Dry January? One more week to go and here are 3 additional things you can do to support yourself.

01/21/2026
01/19/2026

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