Kathy Williamson
Author, Speaker, Trainer
& Addictions Coach
[Also a Former Addict]
Through personal experience Kathy is aware of the victorious life available to anyone stuck in their addictions. After a ten-year struggle to stop her addiction to pain pills, she finally stopped the relapse cycle in 1990 and has not returned to her addiction.
Her life totally turned around when she began fulfilling her vision to develop a crisis hotline. It was a project which used her passion in life (to love and help people in crisis) and it was big enough to pull her out of the mind-set of “me, myself and I.” As a by-product of that activity, she overcame her addiction.
Kathy was a non-professional counselor on crisis hotlines for over 12 years, including developing her own hotline in the early to mid-1990s. She can identify with the deep emotional struggles people go through, as well as the stinking thinking and false beliefs they are stuck in. She especially understands the fears, apprehensions, and negative self-talk of addicts, from her own ten-year struggle to find a way out.
She was married to a former addict who, while he no longer abused alcohol, still operated in his old behaviors of being very manipulative, controlling, lying, blame-shifting, paranoid, egotistical (narcissistic), etc. So she knows what it is like to wake up one morning and realize your life was sucked out of you over the last three years. It took her a year to get her life back, as well as get the guts to leave her husband. She has a special message of hope to wives of addicts, whether they decide to stay or leave.
Her recent outreaches include teaching these principles to addicts in rescue missions and recovery homes who are transitioning from drug addictions to living their new life. She also has programs to coach professionals who struggle with addictive behavior.
She is also available to teach her Roadmap Out of Addiction Process to Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers, which can be integrated into their current programs.