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Colleen Freeland

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Master certified life coach. Emotional sobriety pioneer. Recovering perfectionist.

Colleen Freeland is the founder Emotional Sobriety Coaching© and the host of the globally top-ranked It's Not About the Alcohol podcast. Thousands of high achieving, professional women have used her holistic methodology to transform into the version of themselves who can genuinely “take it or leave it” when it comes to drinking. Emotional sobriety is a skills-based approach based on the science of mindfulness, nervous system regulation and self-directed neuroplasticity that allows you to retrain your brain to work for you, instead of against you.

Colleen secretly struggled as a high functioning, heavy daily drinker for over 20 years. She finally realized that her over-drinking wasn’t about weakness and self-indulgence. It was a symptom of chronic self-neglect fueled by the stress of being an anxious, hyper-productive perfectionist.

Colleen Freeland is an addiction and recovery-certified master life coach with an MSc in health coaching, a BS in biology and chemistry education and is certified as a women’s functional and integrative professional.

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Aug. 28, 2026

99. Is Wine Your Coping Mechanism? It's Not About the Alcohol, with Colleen Freeland

There is a middle ground with alcohol that affects so many of us in midlife: we're not dealing with addiction, but we often wake up feeling guilty, tired, and stuck in a cycle of habitual drinking. We tell ourselves we’ll stop, only to pour another glass to take the edge off a stressful day. In this episode, I welcome Colleen Freeland, founder of Emotional Sobriety Coaching and host of the It's Not About the Alcohol podcast. We discuss why high-functioning women use alcohol to cope, the...