For sobriety coaches
For sobriety and alcohol-free coaches
Your client already told you which night is the hard one. The question is whether anything reaches her on that night.
Almost every client in this work can name their own danger window. Friday at six. The hour after the school run. The first night alone in the house. They tell you this in week two, and then the calendar rolls around to it fifty times a year while your session sits somewhere else in the week.
The usual between-session tools are broadcast: a monthly bundle, a group Q and A, a weekly email to the whole list. They’re genuinely good, and they answer whoever shows up. They’re not aimed at one woman on the night she said was hard.
What closes that gap is not more content. It’s one specific message, timed to the window she named, that sounds like you and asks her one thing.
What a check-in actually looks like
Karen, the bundle goes to everyone. This one’s only for you: you said Fridays at six are the hardest hour of your week, and tomorrow’s Friday. What are you doing with that hour?
33 words. Names the broadcast, then does the opposite of it.
It is drafted from what you already know about that one client:
- The window the client named as hardest
- What she said she would do instead
- Where she is in her own timeline, not a generic stage
- Whether she has engaged with anything since
You read it, change what you want, and send it. Nothing reaches a client without you. The client name above is an example; the drafting never invents a name or a detail you did not give it.
Questions sobriety coaches actually ask
How do I support a sobriety client between sessions without creating dependence on me?
Point every message at her plan rather than at your availability. "Always here for you" quietly makes you the mechanism, and in this work that’s a real risk. A check-in that names the hour she said was hard and asks what she is doing with it hands the agency back. Her work stays hers; you just make sure it is visible.
What do I send a client who has stopped showing up to group?
Reach her individually, name the absence plainly, and remove the catching-up burden. If you do not record sessions, say so, because it means there’s nothing to catch up on and the only thing available is the next one. Then name the next room and ask a direct question about whether she will be in it.
Is an automated check-in dishonest if it is in my voice?
It’d be if it sent itself. Nothing here reaches a client until you have read it and pressed send, so what your client receives is a message you approved, in words you chose to keep. What’s automated is the blank page, not the relationship. If a draft doesn’t sound like you, you change it, and most coaches do on the first few.
Can I use this if my group is on Facebook rather than in an app?
Yes. Check-ins go out as email or as a link you can paste anywhere, including a direct message. There’s nothing for your client to download and no account for them to create. The group stays where it is.
What if a client says something that needs real help, not a check-in?
The drafting refuses. Anything in the client context that reads as genuine risk stops the draft and tells you to reach out personally instead. That is a deliberate hard stop, not a filter you can talk it out of, and it’s the correct behaviour: some moments are a phone call from a human being.
Try the drafting before you try the tool
The free prompt walks the same six questions and drafts a check-in you can send today. No account, no download. It arrives in one email and it is yours to keep whether or not you ever pay us anything.
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Also written for: ADHD coaches · grief coaches
