The Body-First Approach to Staying Alcohol-Free Through the Hard Times 

8 weeks of neuroscience-backed support, expert coaching, and a community that gets it.

Starting November 16th • Small groups of 10-12 • Three time options available

Choose Your Cohort

Introducing The Gray Area Drinking Support Community

I'm opening three small groups (each with 10-12 people) at different times to accommodate various schedules. If you're interested in the body-first, neuroscience-based approach to staying alcohol-free, supported by community and expert guidance, I'd love to have you join us.

 

November 16th - January 4th

Three intimate cohorts - choose the time that works for YOU:

Sunday Cohort: 7-8 pm EST

Monday Cohort: 8-9 pm EST

Tuesday Cohort: 12-1 pm EST

Live coaching calls over Zoom + daily support from Jolene.

Each cohort is intentionally kept small, just 10-12 participants, so that every voice is heard, every question gets answered, and you can form a deep bond with your group.

What You'll Get

This isn't another cognitive-based program. This is a body-first, neuroscience-backed approach that teaches you to work with your physiology, not against it.

I'll be coaching you through the stumbling blocks and training you on the neuroscience behind Gray Area Drinking. Understanding your physiology is the gold standard for sustaining and maintaining your decision to release alcohol. Belief and mindset work can motivate you to start. However, to stay the course in the long term, you need to learn to work with your nervous system.

Here's what we'll cover together over 8 weeks:

✔️ What the research really says about gray area drinking.

✔️ How to recalibrate your neurotransmitters to support you through the early days of stopping drinking.

✔️ Nutrition for your craving brain.

✔️ Why low GABA, not Dopamine, plays the most significant role in gray area drinking.

✔️ The risk factors for returning to gray area drinking.

✔️ Regulation strategies that will rest and replenish your nervous system.

✔️ The real story (that no one knows about) behind "a glass of red is good for your heart".

✔️ The easy way to create new neural pathways to restore your health.

✔️ How did we get here? The rise of gray area drinking.

✔️ Are you trauma-triggered or physiologically activated? Why it matters.

✔️ Do gray area drinkers need to quit drinking forever?

✔️ How to repair your brain and body after years of gray area drinking.

✔️ Tame your animal brain and build internal resilience.

✔️ Why neuroplasticity is IN and cognitive approaches are OUT.

What's included:

→ 8 weekly live coaching calls with Jolene
Real-time support, Q&A, and expert training on the neuroscience of stopping drinking.

→ Daily community support
Private community space where you can continue to ask questions, share wins and challenges, and receive guidance from me throughout the week—not just during the weekly calls.

→ Lifetime access to all session recordings
Can't make a live call? Watch the replay anytime. Keep the recordings forever to revisit when you need support.

→ Somatic exercise & regulation video library
Quick practices you can use anytime to calm cravings and regulate your nervous system.

→ Extended community access through January 31st
Stay connected with your cohort even after the program ends.

Your Investment

$997 (one-time payment) or Three monthly payments of $350 ($1,050 total)

For context, my private coaching clients invest $500 per session. This group format enables me to offer the same level of support at a more affordable rate, while also creating the added benefit of community connection.

A note on timing: I'm offering a complimentary 30-minute private coaching session to anyone who registers and pays in full by November 9th. After that, the program continues at the same price, just without the 1:1 bonus. This session can be used anytime between now and January 4, 2026, for personalized support on your specific challenges.

This is a special offering:

Right now, the world feels heavy. Between holiday stress, political uncertainty, economic anxiety, and the relentless pace of life, it's no wonder so many of us reach for a drink to cope.

But what if you had a different way to navigate the most challenging times?

Here's the truth: When you have support through challenging seasons, whether that's holidays, personal crisis, or global chaos, you groove the neuropathways you need to stay alcohol-free through anything. The skills you develop during tough times become the foundation for lasting change.

You won't be doing this alone. You'll have expert guidance, proven strategies, and a community of people who understand precisely what you're going through.

This is for you if:

  • You keep trying to stop drinking, but it doesn't stick.

  •  You geek out on the neuroscience of the brain and want to understand WHY you can't moderate.

  •  You've stopped drinking in the past, but sometimes still long for the escape and the temporary off switch that alcohol provided, so you return to drinking.

  •  You're hungry for the biochemical and physiological explanations of what alcohol does to your body and brain (and how you can fix it!).

  •  You want to learn how to use functional nutrition, somatic exercise, circadian biology, polyvagal techniques, and strategic rest to stop drinking in the gray area and stay stopped.

  •  You can string together 30 or more consecutive alcohol-free days (and have stopped drinking for 30 or more days in the past).

  •  You're tired of intellectualizing why you should stop and want a sustainable, neuroscience-based approach actually to stop.

  •  You're a high-achieving professional who wants to optimize your health and performance.

 

This is NOT  for you if:

You need medical intervention because you experience severe withdrawal symptoms when you stop drinking (shaking, sweating, seizures, hallucinations).

Felisha Start

This experience goes far beyond traditional programs. It's empowering, insightful, and deeply healing.

Carrie McRoberts

I have felt much more confident that I can remain alcohol free, and I continue to implement and experiment with the skills I learned. Jolene's teaching style is very down-to-earth and individualized even in a group setting.

HI, I'M JOLENE.

I've been coaching Gray Area Drinkers and training practitioners since 2016. More importantly, I'm 11 YEARS alcohol free myself!

I've lived the gray area drinking experience both personally and professionally. I know the questions that arise, the feelings you feel, the experiences you're having in the first year of going alcohol free. I'll guide you through every piece with advice you can't get anywhere else.

My credentials:

  • Certified by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners
  • Certified by the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching
  • Certified by the Association for Addiction Professionals
  • Functional Nutritionist since 1999 and Health Coach since 2014
  • 25 years studying functional medicine and mind/body medicine
  • Working in corporate wellness since 2004
  • Supporting thousands of private clients since 2009

As a lifelong learner of all things health and wellness, I offer a new and revolutionary approach to utilizing holistic nutrition, somatic experiencing techniques, and the latest neuroscience to help individuals stop drinking and stay stopped.

My physiology first approach works.

If you're a high-achieving professional who is choosing to stop drinking for the health of it, this offering is for you! You'll learn how to replenish, rewire, and repair your body and brain without using alcohol.

Frequently Asked Questions

If this resonates with you, I'd love to have you join us. 

You've been dipping in and out of the Sober Curious movement. Or, you may have completed other programs, but something has been missing.

That missing piece? Understanding Your Nervous System and Craving Brain

When you learn to recalibrate your neurotransmitters, support your GABA receptors, regulate your nervous system, and use strategic nutrients, staying alcohol-free becomes sustainable. 

This program gives you:

  • The neuroscience you've been looking for
  • The support you need
  • The community that gets it
  • The expert guidance to make it stick

You don't have to navigate the most challenging times alone. You don't have to rely on maintaining a positive mindset when the world feels overwhelming. You don't have to wake up on January 2nd feeling like you failed again.

This time can be different.

Choose Your Cohort:

Sunday Cohort

Meets weekly 7-8pm EST

REGISTER NOW

Monday Cohort

Meets weekly 8-9pm EST

REGISTER NOW

Tuesday Cohort

Meets weekly 12-1pm EST

REGISTER NOW

Can't make any of these times?

JOIN THE WAITLIST FOR EARLY 2026

Investment: $997 (one-time) or three payments of $350 ($1,050 total)

Register and pay in full by November 9th to receive a complimentary 30-minute private session with Jolene.

P.S. - Why Now?

It might feel like the worst possible time to stop drinking. The world feels chaotic. The holidays are coming. There's so much uncertainty.

But here's the truth: I quit drinking on December 14, 2014, eleven years ago, smack dab in the middle of the busy holiday season.

That's why I'm launching this program now.

I know firsthand that this time of year, with all its stress, expectations, and traditions centered around drinking, can actually be the best time to quit, not despite the challenges, but because of them.

When you have expert support, proven strategies, and a community that has your back, the most challenging times become your time to soar.

You'll walk into 2026 not with a hangover and regret, but with confidence, clarity, and proof that you did the hard thing.

Let's do this together.

The program runs for 8 weeks from November 16, 2025 through January 4, 2026.

Questions? Email [email protected] — I personally read and respond to every message.