About Us

Ralf is a highly skilled Addiction Recovery Coach and Life Coach, as well as a 8 time published author, a Pastor and sought-after motivational speaker and a recovering alcoholic.                                        

Ralf FrIedrIchs has studied Masters of Divinty and Doctorate of Theology as well as a concentration of Ministry Leadership in the last 6 years 

His experience comes from his own battles as well of years of helping others. He's been featured in online magazines, on front pages of newspapers, a few television appearances and he hosts syndicated podcasts on iheartradio , iTunes , Google Music , Amazon Music and many other stations 

His accolades include features in both The Fix and Sober Nation online Magazines, he was nominated as an 2019 honorary board member for NAD, Neighborhoods Against Drugs. In 2020 he received the prestigious Presidential Volunteer Service Award.

Mr. Friedrichs serving dual roles as a Minister/Pastor and a Addiction Recovery/ Life Coach is dedicated to helping all in need.

Ralf says "As a professionally trained and experienced Addiction and Life Coach, I have the tools and understanding to help you to create the life you imagine and get a renewed sense of self. I can help you change your perception of life so that it is filled with vitality and enthusiasm." 

As an Itinerant Minister/Pastor, I serve God daily, and through God anything and everything is possible. 

BOOK 1 “Bottoms up, Surrendering to God, not to Booze"

BOOK 2 "Struggles Became my Strength" 

BOOK 3 "Say Yes To Hugs, No to Drugs"

BOOK 4 "Rock-bottom to Gods Grace - A Climb to Glory"

BOOK 5 "Chaos to Calmness-Living For Christ"

BOOK 6 "Start with Christ- Live with Christ- End with Christ"

BOOK 7 "The Truth Cannot Lie"

BOOK 8 "Preaching For Chris t- Sermons From Rev. Ralf Friedrichs

HE IS ALWAYS HERE FOR YOU

Making a difference is Ralf's beliefs. Here is his challenge to everyone- "I just want to challenge everyone, a challenge I'm also trying to live out. No matter how busy you are, there is always something you can do to brighten someone's day- give someone a hug- send a text with an inspiring quote. Mail a heartfelt card. Tell someone how much you appreciate them." If we look, each day presents us with opportunities to share kindness. 

Ralf Friedrichs’s core belief is that we are called to not only love God and love people, but to carry out The Great Commission and share the eternal message of Jesus Christ and the Gospel. Ralf's goal is to help you re-imagine your life and let go of thoughts and behaviors that undermine you, so that a renewed and fulfilled you can emerge. With extensive experience in Addiction Recovery and Life Coaching he has a vast history of client success. Ralf's individualized approach will help you attain your goals. We must love one another as God loves each one of us. To be able to love, we need a clean heart. Prayer is what gives us a clean heart. The fruit of prayer is a deepening of faith and the fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action

Call me at 1-844-405-HELP 

Ralf was writing on his blog and it was getting a lot of attention, as emails piled in complimenting his work and thanking him for his transpancery. 

It wasn’t long before his readers were asking him if he would go on camera.

“I was getting all these emails from people saying ‘this is great stuff you’re talking about your life experience,’” he said. “I got all these emails, [and] somebody said to me ‘listen, can you just get behind a camera for us one time?’”

That’s when Friedrichs created a YouTube channel, which he named the “Take Your Life Back Today Show With Ralf Friedrichs.” He began filming and uploading at least one video everyday, sometimes two or three. He notes the show became his very own personal rehab.

“That show is my rehab. I have to study each and everyday to do these shows. If I talk about depression, I have to get that knowledge somewhere to talk about that. So I go to Mayo Clinic, and I study their material, and then I, like a reporter, absorb it like a sponge and expose it to my audience. So now this is my rehab,” he said.

“I’m learning all of these things about alcohol, drugs, and depression. That keeps me on the up and up, something AA couldn’t do for me,” he added. “I know for a fact if I should have one ounce of liquor, I would let down 900 some thousand people. And what stronger will do you have?”

Then and today, Friedrichs says he created the YouTube show to provide rehab for himself, as researching, compiling the information, and then filming and uploading the videos consumed his time and allowed him to open up and talk about his problems. However, he was unaware of the drastic impact his videos would have on others from all over the world who are going through similar situations.

“I’m in 45 rehab centers in the United States that play it, I’m in homeless shelters, some in New York,” he said. “My biggest audience is Alaska, probably because of all the years I worked in the villages in the arctic circle, and Asia.”

His videos now have over 950,000 different views in different areas.

“It’s to a point where if I miss one video in one day, people think maybe he fell off the wagon, because if you don’t hear from Ralf in 24 hours you think oh my gosh what’s going on?” he said. “And I do need a break from things too every once in a while.”

Friedrichs’ show now has about 2,600 videos, and he continues to post one everyday he’s able.

The show’s popularity has even landed Friedrichs on several impressive, widely-viewed talk shows including six appearances on Time Warner and five different shows in Manhattan. He was also interviewed on “A Name to Know,” which skyrocketed his YouTube audience and bookings for speeches.

No one will ever hate you with the intensity that you can hate yourself, and that’s why you absolutely must take the time to build your self-worth.

And I really wish that building your self-worth was simply as easy as repeating to yourself that you love yourself, but it’s not.  The reality is if you want to love yourself you have to do something that is worthy of that love.

You have to do something that you believe in.  You have to find a way to build credibility with yourself, to tell yourself you’re going to do something and know that you’re actually going to see it through.

The reality is we’re all watching ourselves all the time.  We know how we behave. 

And so you really have to think about that. I want it to be enough. 

I want it to be enough that you exist and that you’re going to be okay simply because you are. 

But the reality is we don’t look at life like that and we do judge ourselves and we do think about whether or not we’re following through on the things that we said we were going to do.

And it’s okay to start small. 

It’s okay not to have a grand dream. 

It’s okay not to be able to do that yet. It is very okay not to be extraordinary. 

You don’t need that to love yourself. 

But what you do need is purpose.

What you do need is to take that time to define what it is that you’re trying to do with your life.  Why do you matter?  What is it that you’re going to be able to bring to yourself and to the world and it doesn’t have to be big? 

It just has to be real. It has to be something that’s true to you. 

It has to be something that you’re willing to commit to. And once you’re willing to commit to it, to put in the energy every day to get up and pursue that thing, and again this is not me, I’m not judging you, I can really tell you, I love you and it’s enough that you just exist.  But I know that in your head, in all of our heads, is a voice that says that just isn’t true. And so to connect with ourselves and to find that meaning and to develop it, to create meaning in our lives, we have to set an intention and we have to pursue that intention.

Start small, know what you want, get out of bed, get after it, set rules for yourself, follow those rules.  Once you start doing those simple things, and again they don’t have to be big, but once you start setting a rule, having an intention, following your rules, building towards that intention, suddenly you’re going to earn that credibility with yourself.

And then all of the sudden no matter what anybody says to you, and they are going to say negative things, haters are going to come after you, that is just a reality of life, but you will be impervious to that if you have built within you belief, belief that you are worthy because you take small steps every day to do something that means something to you.

It doesn’t matter what other people think but it matters a lot what you think about yourself, so every day earn that worth.

Now live Each Day as a Gift