Professional Addiction Interventionist, Author
Speaking Team: Kristina Wandzilak, Author, International Speaker and Chemical Dependency Expert and her mother Constance Curry
Kristina Wandzilak, CAS, CIP, is a professional addiction interventionist, author and media expert and is credited with helping thousands of addicts and their families through her work. In recovery herself since 1993, Kristina brings a very personal understanding of addiction to her profession. Kristina is featured on two ground-breaking series, Codependent on LMN and Addicted on TLC, documenting her intervention work. Kristina can often be seen on Good Morning America and other national new outlets, as a regular addiction consultant and is the founder of Full Circle sober living communities and Full Circle outpatient services, located in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Kristina and her mother, Constance Curry, co-authored the addiction memoir, The Lost Years: Surviving a Mother and Daughter’s Worst Nightmare. The Lost Years is the brutally honest and gritty story of Kristina’s dramatic decent into addiction and her mother’s desperate attempt to save her. Told from the parallel perspectives of mother and daughter, their compelling story is an inspiring account of one family’s journey into addiction and their triumphant recovery.
Constance Curry has been in long term codependency recovery and uses her experience to help others effected by addiction. Constance is an avid golfer and a proud grandmother of seven. Kristina and Constance, travel globally for speaking events, presenting their inspirational story of hope and redemption, offering the audience a unique, powerful and unforgettable experience.