Make alcohol a smaller part of your story.
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Visit SunnysideHow I found Sunnyside — and ended up on the team.
I come from a long line of people who struggled with alcohol. It skipped my immediate family, but the generational weight of it didn't. I rarely drank until I was 36 — when, within two months, I lost my partner to suicide and my mother to cancer. I didn't have the tools for that kind of grief, so I reached for alcohol.
Over the years a pattern emerged: drink heavily through a hard chapter, quit, do fine — until the next wave hit. I'm an all-or-nothing guy, so once I had one drink, heavy drinking wasn't far behind. I knew I needed a different approach.
In 2017 I watched a TED Talk on naltrexone. My doctor agreed to prescribe it, and within months I was alcohol-free. I didn't realize long-term use improves the odds, so I stopped — and when the pandemic hit, the cycle came back.
Last year, deep in my training as an intimacy coach, I realized that developing deeper intimacy with myself meant getting honest about my drinking. I didn't have health insurance, so I asked Google where I could get naltrexone via telehealth. Sunnyside was the first result. Medication, a real coach, and proven behavior-change tools — all in one app. I signed up immediately.
When I joined I was averaging 12–20 drinks a day. Ten months in, I was down to about two a night, but recently I quit alcohol all together. Sunnyside didn't just give me a tool — it gave me a path. Today I get to walk that path with their members as one of their coaches.
If alcohol is something you're navigating, you don't have to white-knuckle it. There's a smarter, kinder way — and I'd love to walk it with you.