Be Sober – Quit Drinking with Simon Chapple the Quit Alcohol Coach
Welcome to the Be Sober Blog – I am Simon Chapple, Sober Writer, Speaker and Coach for This Naked Mind. At 44 years old I decided enough was enough and stopped drinking forever. If you want to change your relationship with alcohol this website and the Be Sober private Facebook group could be the right place for you. My mission is to spread the word about the benefits of a life without alcohol – Be Sober and my story have been featured on the BBC, in the news and on Club Soda and This Naked Mind. If you want to change your relationship with alcohol check out my book – The Sober Survival Guide.
This weekend was the parent’s formal dinner at my Sons school, I was pretty nervous as Saturday approached. This would be my first big function where beer and wine would be flowing, on top of this I didn’t know anyone attending (other than my wife) and I have recently had an operation that means my …
Today is my 75th day sober, when I started out on this journey I couldn’t even see myself going a few days without an alcoholic drink, now I just don’t want one. I am actually starting to feel proud of what I have achieved! However, I also remain cautious, the last thing I want to …
When I quit drinking alcohol I made a note of how much I had been spending on red wine, it was between £8-£15 a day. Wow, over a year that comes to the best part of £4000! I was already planning a holiday to the Caribbean and adding the huge money saving as yet another …
I have been reading the excellent book Mrs D Is Going Without by Lotta Dann, it really is an fantastic read and a must-have for any ‘quit-lit’ enthusiasts. In one of the chapters Lotta explains how she had an awakening when she realised that her drinking problem was a way of suppressing her emotions, in other words a …
When I made the decision to stop drinking alcohol it took me quite a few attempts to get past Day 1. Here I was, age 44 having drunk red wine pretty much every night for the last twenty (or more) years, this was going to be hard. I relied on wine to unwind at the …
When I realised I had a problem with how much red wine I was drinking my first thought was to cut down, I would change my habit and just have a couple of glasses on Monday through to Thursday, then at the weekend I would have my usual bottle or more of red. I figured …
Whenever I get the occasional urge for wine (will they ever stop?), I try to take a step back and remind myself of all the reasons why I stopped drinking alcohol in the first place. As time goes by there is a danger that I might start looking at wine with rose-tinted glasses and forget …
For me it had been coming for a couple of years. The joy had vanished from my evening bottle (or more) of wine long ago and it had become a struggle as I dealt with the mixed emotion of knowing I was drinking too much and wanting to cut down, competing against my thirsty-self who …
It’s the question that anyone who starts to worry about their relationship with alcohol asks themselves ‘am I an alcoholic?’. The common perception of an alcoholic is someone who drinks in the morning or is sat in a shop doorway with a bottle in a brown bag, but this really isn’t the case. If you’re anything …
So I had been sober for a fortnight, I never (ever) thought I could have done this and I also knew I would never go back to drinking. The first few days had been quite hard, after 20 years of reaching for the wine almost every night it had been a huge life change and …
