Sober Curious
Life Coach

About

I went from Sober Curious to Alcohol Free! ​

Cari knows what it feels like to look successful on the outside while quietly struggling on the inside. A driven high achiever who built multiple coaching-based businesses, she spent years ending busy days with a glass of wine to calm the anxiety she couldn’t seem to turn off. Eventually curiosity replaced autopilot. After a year and a half of being Sober Curious along with mindful experimentation, she chose an alcohol-free life, and everything changed! She didn’t just feel better, she felt like herself again!!

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Cari Wolters is a certified life coach and affective liminal psychology (ALP) practitioner who specializes in helping high achievers break free from habits that are keeping them anxious and stuck!  She also holds a bachelor’s degree in social work.  She understands how to connect with people through empathy, compassion, and support.  As the founder of Sober Curious Life Coaching, Cari blends science-backed strategy, emotion-based programming along with compassionate guidance to help clients unlock their potential and build lives that feel aligned, intentional, and free to be their authentic selves!

Cari is proudly alcohol-free for four years and has been coaching women and men through a program called the PATH for three years. Her approach is rooted in science, curiosity, compassion, emotional awareness, and personalized support—not willpower or shame. She believes that transformation begins with self-compassion and that breaking the habit loop is not about fixing what's "wrong" but about reconnecting to your values, identity, and inner truth.

Cari spent two decades supporting emotionally impaired children and individuals on the spectrum as a special education teacher and advocate. Her experience in teaching, ABA therapy, and behavior systems gave her a unique lens into how patterns are formed and how they can be reprogrammed!!

Before launching her coaching business, Cari was also a successful entrepreneur and business coach, building and leading teams of hundreds of women while teaching brand development and leadership. Her ability to empower others is grounded in both lived experience and professional training, and her mission is to help people create lives they don’t need to escape from!

Cari is a proud mom of two teenagers, wife to a supportive husband, and passionate advocate for the alcohol-free movement. Through one-on-one coaching, group programs, interactive corporate workshops, and webinars she offers both the strategy and heart-led support to help others break free from the habitual loops that no longer serve them and step into who they truly are!