The Executive Stress & Alcohol Use Blueprint™ Quiz & Guide
A neuroscience-backed assessment for professionals who rely on alcohol to manage stress — and want a smarter, more sustainable system.
Designed for professionals whose responsibilities have outgrown the systems they use to manage stress and alcohol.
By Dr. Joanne Ketch
Founder of Sober in the C-Suite® • Executive Recovery Specialist • Creator of the Executive Sober Blueprint™
- Private
- Strategic
- Sobriety-informed
- Built for high-pressure lives
How The Group Works
This is a structured, science-informed growth group. The goal is not to do more. The goal is to design better support.
This is a structured, science-informed growth group.
The goal is not to do more. The goal is to design better support.
Brief Teaching
Guided Reflection
Practical Exercises
Safe Discussion
Weekly Commitment
Framework: PERMAH Wellbeing Model
Focus areas include emotional regulation, purpose, boundaries, meaning, identity, accomplishment, and health habits.
The goal is not to do more. The goal is to design better support.
This isn't a motivation problem.
It's a stress-load problem.
When performance demands stay high and recovery stays minimal, alcohol shifts from a choice to a function.
From a neuroscience perspective, this is predictable.
Sustained pressure changes how decisions get made. Under chronic load, thinking becomes shorter-term and more reactive.
Immediate relief starts to outrank long-term strategy, and familiar habits take over — even when they work against your bigger goals.
- This isn't a moral issue.
- It isn't a strength issue.
- And it isn't a failure of insight.
It's a system doing exactly what it was trained to do under sustained load.
And systems can be redesigned.
The In-Between Season
You may be functioning. Responsible. Reliable. Even successful.
But underneath that competence there can still be:
- A quiet sense of disorientation
- Stress that doesn't have a healthy outlet yet
- Habits that need redesign, not just removal
- Identity questions that don't fit into early recovery spaces
- The feeling of being "past survival" but not yet fully alive
This group exists for that in-between season.
Not early recoveryNot crisis managementNot therapy
"This is the phase where women intentionally design a life that actually supports long-term sobriety — emotionally, physically, relationally, and structurally."
Why I built this
Sober in the C-Suite® exists because I've spent decades watching intelligent, capable professionals quietly
suffer under stress systems that were never designed for the lives they're actually living.
I've held senior clinical and leadership roles, provided consultation to treatment facilities, designed
recovery curricula, trained clinicians, and worked directly with high-functioning adults navigating stress,
alcohol use, and identity under pressure.
I've learned that most professionals don't need more information.
They need better architecture.
For some, this assessment alone creates meaningful shifts.
For others, it becomes the foundation for designing a personalized Executive Sober Blueprint™.
Either way — clarity comes first.
What Professionals Are Saying
Participants don't join to talk about alcohol. They join to build the architecture of a life that holds.
"Joanne is brilliant. The way she combines science with a holistic, systems-level approach is masterful."
- — Founder & Chief Clinical Officer
"She has an unmatched ability to cut through complexity and design practical, individualized paths forward."
- — Licensed Clinician
"Her work equips professionals with clarity, structure, and tools that actually work under pressure."
- — Primary Therapist
"What sets her apart is her ability to translate science into systems people can actually use."
- — Healthcare Executive
Start with clarity.
- Private
- Strategic
- Sobriety-informed
- Built for high-pressure lives
You don't have to decide anything today.
This guide simply gives us the clarity needed to design the right next step.