HI! I'M AMBER 👋
HI! I'M AMBER 👋
I’m known by most of my clients as “The Fearless Leader.” 💪
I’m also the Founder and President of Recovery Road Runners, a nonprofit organization dedicated to health and recovery from alcohol and drug addiction. A second-grade teacher, a mama to two boys, and a former collegiate athlete, I’m also a certified sobriety coach by the World Coach Institute, an RRCA-certified run coach, and a twice certified yoga instructor. Using the tools I’ve gained through formal recovery and running training, decades of sports training and years in the classroom, I have developed comprehensive teaching and training modules for people seeking recovery and healthier living. I launched my programs in 2023.
I love to give Recovery Road Runners members just the right blend of motivation, mixed with a bit of homework and a lot of cheerleading along the way. From my online support groups to her one-on-one confidential Zoom calls, my recovery and running programs focus on members’ individual goals, rather than the goals of a group of people.
My coaching style is all about positivity and mental toughness. My philosophy is to use our struggles as fuel for a better tomorrow. Despite the challenges and circumstances of the past, I teach people how to find the positive through my mix of exercise, mindfulness and group facilitation.
A teacher through and through, I teach people how exercise can become their greatest weapon against addiction! With affordable coaching packages, events, workshops and trainings, Recovery Road Runners is the starting line the recovery community has been waiting for.
Our Core Values
At the heart of our mission is a simple belief: running has the power to transform lives from the inside out. These core values guide who we are, how we show up, and the community we’re committed to building.
1. Courage Over Comfort
We move toward the hard things — because that’s where growth lives.
2. Radical Honesty
We tell the truth about our past so we can run freely into our future.
3. Community First
No runner left behind. No story dismissed. No struggle minimized.
4. Service as Surrender
We give back because it keeps us sober, humble, and grounded.
5. Movement as Medicine
Running heals, strengthens, regulates, and awakens the soul.
6. Faith + Freedom
We trust the process and honor the higher power guiding us forward.
7. Transformation Through Discipline
Small, consistent steps create big, life-changing victories.
8. Purpose Over Pain
Everything we’ve lived through becomes fuel to help someone else.
My Story
Hi, I’m Amber — and I’m a mother who hit rock bottom with babies in my arms.
I survived addiction, shame, trauma, and the collapse of my identity while trying to be “the perfect mom.” I looked strong on the outside, but inside I was drowning — lonely, exhausted, overwhelmed, and terrified someone might see how badly I was struggling.
Motherhood didn’t break me…
the longing to be a better mother did.
Alcohol became my escape — the thing that helped me get through the day and survive the nights. But it also became the thing that stole my joy, my peace, my presence, my motherhood.
The guilt was suffocating.
The shame was constant.
The self-hate was deafening.
And still, I smiled. I said, “I’m fine.”
But I wasn’t fine. I was hanging on by a thread.
My rock bottom wasn’t dramatic — it was quiet. A moment of clarity when I looked at my babies and realized I was disappearing from their lives before they were even old enough to remember me.
I didn’t get sober because I was strong.
I got sober because I was desperate.
But recovery gave me something I didn’t expect:
myself.
I learned how to show up in motherhood fully awake.
I learned how to feel everything I used to numb.
I learned how to love myself enough to be a better mother.
And that is why I help other moms and dads now —
the ashamed ones, the overwhelmed ones, the lonely ones, the ones who silently fall apart behind closed doors.
If that’s you, hear me clearly:
You are not alone.
You are not broken.
You don’t need to be perfect.
You just need to be willing to take the first step.
And I will walk — or run — beside you the whole way. ❤️
