Anne Marie Cribben is a passionate recovery coach and spiritual companion based in Washington, DC. As the founder of Thirsty For Wonder, she offers 1:1 coaching, spiritual companionship, and recovery support rooted in compassion and empowerment. Creator of The Wellspring: A Celtic Recovery Journey, Anne Marie blends the Celtic calendar with sobriety, connecting participants to ancient wisdom and nature’s rhythms. A fierce advocate for sobriety as liberation and self-love, Anne Marie challenges the targeted marketing of alcohol to women and promotes authentic, joyful living. Her approach goes beyond addiction recovery, fostering a life of vibrancy and fulfillment.
In her personal life, Anne Marie enjoys baking, cooking, poetry, being a Swiftie, weight lifting, reading, embroidery, and creating mocktails. She treasures time with friends and embraces creativity in all forms.
Anne Marie invites readers to celebrate the summer solstice sober with five salty, soulful rituals inspired by Celtic seaweed traditions. From Irish moss baths and beachside presence practices to playful seaweed crowns and quiet moments by the water, this piece connects ancient coastal wisdom with modern recovery, reminding us that healing does not always have to be polished — sometimes it just needs salt, light, and a little willingness to get weird.
Anne Marie Cribbin reflects on growing up inside a faith community where alcohol, ritual, family, grief, and celebration were deeply intertwined. In this powerful essay, she explores what happens when drinking culture becomes invisible in sacred spaces — and what faith communities can learn from recovery.
Recovery support has changed dramatically, with more options than ever before — from 12-step meetings and therapy to coaching apps, telehealth platforms, MAT programs, sober communities, and digital recovery tools. Anne Marie Cribbin offers a gentle field guide for finding sobriety support that fits your real life, honors your needs, and reminds you there is no single “right” way to recover.
In this recovery reflection, Anne Marie Cribbin explores Bealtaine, the Celtic fire festival, as a metaphor for sobriety, nervous system healing, community, and learning the difference between the fires that consume us and the warmth that sustains us.
A few summers ago, culture handed us Hot Girl Summer. Then came Brat Summer. Somewhere in between, we drifted into…
I have been sober for eight years. I say that with real gratitude. Eight years is a long time, and…
Something happened to us over those ten days. And I don’t think we’re talking about it enough. Collective joy is…
For the past seven months, I have been in a quiet, ongoing relationship with a crow. It perches on my…
People often assume recovery coaching is something you seek in the earliest days of sobriety. The logic seems straightforward. The…
A Celtic offering for welcoming the returning light Twice a year the earth pauses in a moment of near balance.…
In the Celtic calendar, early February marks Imbolc, the seasonal turning associated with the goddess then saint, Brigid. For many…
A nighttime ritual rooted in Celtic recovery Thirsty For Wonder has always been rooted in Celtic recovery and spirituality. That…
The Winter Solstice is the turning point of the year. The longest night. The moment the earth leans as far…
How to Winter Well: The Celtic Way (Especially When You’re Healing) Winter has a way of revealing the truth we…
By November, the trees have stopped performing. Their leaves are gone, the color has drained from the canopy, and what’s…
Sobriety starts as survival. It starts with a decision to stop hurting ourselves in the same old ways. But over…
Some days, the work of recovery feels like tending a garden. There’s pruning, watering, composting what’s no longer alive. And…
There’s a moment in every horror movie. The camera pans in, the shadows lengthen, the music tightens its grip. And…
Autumn doesn’t whisper. It warns. The season strips down every tree and lays bare what’s been hiding in the branches.…
Start in the Dark: How a Celtic Year Teaches Recovery to Breathe “Most things are conceived in the dark.” Anne…
There is a kind of hunger that gnaws long before we name it. It’s not in the belly but in…
In the cycle of the Celtic calendar, we are in the season of Lughnasa (LOO-nah-sah). It is the festival of…
The tomatoes on my windowsill blush in slow motion. One shade deeper each morning, refusing to be rushed. I watch…
There’s a version of recovery that looks very impressive from the outside. Structured. Consistent. Clipped and polished. The kind that…
In the middle of Washington, D.C., behind a simple Cape Cod-style house, not far from North Capitol Street, my grandmother’s…
In a city that runs on breaking news and Metro fires, mornings matter. I need something bold and grounding, something…
I rearranged my spice cabinet this week. It felt like I was putting myself back together, one jar at a…
We don’t talk enough about the wild in recovery. We talk about steadiness, which matters. We talk about structure, which…
The poet, composer, mystic, and saint Hildegard von Bingen once described a force she called viriditas — the greening power…
Someone asked me recently how I maintain work-life balance. I think they expected something tidy — maybe a calendar hack…
