Recovery That Lasts. Backed by Neuroscience and Over 26 Years of Lived Experience.
Trauma informed recovery coaching proven to work in the real world. Available worldwide through secure private video sessions.
Trusted by healthcare professionals, parents and purpose driven individuals for sustainable change.
Real Recovery Starts Here
If you’ve tried to quit, made it weeks or even months, only to fall back into old patterns, you’re not alone. Addiction isn’t a moral failing. It’s a complex web of trauma, pain, and deeply wired habit loops that can feel impossible to escape.
I know, because I’ve lived it.
I spent 26 years in addiction—and every year since in recovery, building a new kind of coaching system that fuses science, strategy, and soul. With a background in neurodiagnostics at a tertiary care hospital and deep training in addiction, trauma, and family systems, I coach people in a way that feels human, effective, and sustainable.
What Makes This Coaching Different
My work is neuroscience-informed, trauma-aware, and compassion-driven. This is not therapy. It’s transformation. We don’t just talk about what’s wrong. We rebuild what’s possible.
What You’ll Learn and Practice:
✔ Why you do what you do, and how to change it
✔ How addiction rewires the brain (and how we rewire it back)
✔ What actually causes relapse, and how to prevent it
✔ How to build safe, stable routines that support long-term recovery
✔ How to repair relationships and reclaim your identity
The Science Behind Real Recovery
This coaching integrates leading-edge tools from:
Neuroscience and Brain Rewiring
Learn how addiction impacts your dopamine system, decision-making, and stress response, and how to heal them.
Cognitive Behavioral Techniques (CBT)
Shift the negative thoughts, self-sabotage patterns, and internal shame spirals keeping you stuck.
SMART Recovery & Relapse Prevention
Use urge surfing, functional analysis, and reinforcement strategies tailored to your life - not someone else’s program.
Somatic Tools & Nervous System Regulation
Learn how to calm your body, reduce reactivity, and build internal safety so change actually sticks.
Identity and Codependency Coaching
If you’ve lost yourself in caregiving, perfectionism, or people-pleasing, we’ll help you reclaim your boundaries and your truth.
Structured Recovery Modules
Each program is supported by proprietary, research-backed modules:
Recovery Foundations
Brain, Behavior & Triggers
Emotional & Identity Work
Relapse Prevention Planning
Family, Relationships & Boundaries
Parenting & Specialized Support
How Neuroscience-Informed Coaching Drives Change
Your brain has the ability to rewire itself — even after decades of addiction. My approach uses the principles of neuroplasticity, nervous system regulation, and behavioral science to help you:
Interrupt destructive thought loops and triggers
Restore dopamine, motivation, and executive functioning
Build safe, sustainable routines that retrain your brain toward stability
Here’s how evidence-based modalities are used throughout your coaching:
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) – Thought tracking, behavioral re-patterning, and relapse prevention
• SMART Recovery Tools – Functional analysis, urge surfing, emotional regulation
• Narrative Identity Coaching – Rebuilding your personal story, purpose, and future identity
• Neuroscience Education – Understanding the addiction brain and how recovery affects your nervous system
• Trauma-Informed Techniques – Creating safety, regulating overwhelm, and healing shame
• Family Systems Theory – Repairing generational roles and unhealthy dynamics
• Codependency Recovery Models – Reclaiming boundaries and autonomy in relationships
• Somatic Awareness – Using breath, posture, and grounding to regulate emotions in the body
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When I realized I needed help with my drinking, I didn’t know where to turn. I felt like I had already lost control, but I couldn’t let anyone in my world see that. My wife knew, but no one else. Not my business partners, not my clients, not even my closest friends. I was terrified of the damage it would do to my reputation, my company, and the stability of my family.
I searched everywhere. Quietly. Privately. I read websites and followed social media accounts, trying to find someone who actually got it. Someone who understood the pressure I was under and wouldn’t treat me like a number or a diagnosis.
That’s when I came across Aaron Gleadow. His content stopped me in my tracks. It was like he had seen my life from the inside. He didn’t offer empty promises or cookie cutter recovery plans. He talked about the brain, about trauma, and about how healing is possible when you’re ready. I remember thinking, this guy gets it.
I didn’t reach out right away. It actually took me another four weeks to get the courage to send a message. I had so much fear and shame. But even just following Aaron online started to shift something in me. I felt a little less alone. I started to believe that maybe there was a way forward.
In our first session, I used an alias. That’s how much I needed to protect my privacy. I told Aaron the basics, but not my name, not my career, and not what was really going on in my marriage. And still, he treated me with respect, presence, and compassion. There was no pressure. No judgment. Just a calm, grounded voice on the other end of the screen who had clearly walked this road himself.
Week by week, I shared more. My real name. My business. My family. My patterns. And through that process, something incredible happened. I stopped hiding. I started healing.
Aaron’s coaching didn’t just help me stop drinking. It helped me understand why I drank in the first place. He helped me see the layers of grief, fear, and pressure I had been carrying for years. We worked through triggers, identity shifts, emotional regulation, and real life recovery tools. He didn’t just talk about neuroscience. He made it personal. Practical. Human.
Now, six months later, I am present with my family. I’m clear with my team. I’m sober, focused, and at peace. I have the life I always wanted. And I did not have to burn everything down to get here.
Aaron helped me rebuild from the inside out. And I am forever grateful.
Real Results:
Tom’s Recovery Journey
Ready to Find Out What Coaching Looks Like for You?
Book a free 30-minute Recovery Planning Session.
No pressure. No judgment. Just a conversation that could change your life.