When addiction is their problem and also yours.
You're not falling apart. You've been holding it together for too long
you deserve support too
You've been doing this alone
You know their triggers better than your own. You've been the one making calls, doing research, holding it together. And somewhere in all of that, you stopped being the subject of your own life.
That has a cost. And you already know it.
I work with partners and couples navigating addiction-related relationship dynamics — not to save the relationship, and not to end it. To help you find out who you are in it. And what you actually want.
AWEN Recovery
Building attachment-focused recovery support for partners and couples navigating addiction-related relationship dynamics.
PRCC
Facilitating recovery-centered peer support spaces rooted in connection, honesty, and relational healing.
EXPERTISE
MY APPROACH
This isn't about fixing him.
Addiction doesn't just affect the person with substance use disorder. It reorganizes your nervous system. It rewires what you expect from relationships, from yourself, from safety.
The work isn't about managing him better. It's about understanding what happened to you — and deciding, clearly and without shame, what comes next.
what I do
HELPING women REBUILD TRUST, RECONNECT WITH THEMSELVES, AND MOVE BEYOND SURVIVAL-BASED RELATIONSHIPS.
Meet brinn
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Meet brinn 🙌
MEET BRINN:
I'm still in the work.
That's the point.
My dad's upbringing was organized around alcohol. My sister struggled with heroin. In my early 30s, I found out my partner had been hiding a dependency on prescription pills and alcohol for years.
I know what it is to love someone in it. I know the hypervigilance. The over-functioning. The way you stop asking for things because asking stopped feeling safe.
I also know what it costs to stay stuck there — organizing your whole life around someone else's crisis, and then organizing your identity around the wound.
What changed for me was finding someone who asked the questions I'd never asked myself. She didn't hand me a pamphlet. She helped me figure out what I actually wanted.
That's what I do now.
I'm a clinical mental health counseling candidate at the University of Cumberlands. I have an EMBA. I founded awen Recovery in 2021. None of that leads — the quality of the work does. The credentials are just proof that I keep going deeper on your behalf.
I'm not someone who did the work and came out clean on the other side. I still catch myself — in my career, in my relationship with money — moving from the same desperate place I used to move from in relationships. I know what that is now. And I keep going anyway.
That version of me is more useful to you than the one with a clean arc.
Ready to stop making yourself smaller?
You don't have to have it figured out before you reach out. That's what the consultation is for.