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.
I am just back from the Reading Festival. What an amazing weekend of music and fun. On top of this the weather was incredible! When I was drinking the thought of attending a music festival without copious amounts of alcohol involved would have seemed ridiculous and pointless. I held the firm belief that it simply …
I am so thrilled to have been asked to speak at This Naked Mind Live in Denver. What an honour and what an awesome opportunity to meet so many of the people who I have done coaching sessions with over the internet in person. This Naked Mind Live is an awesome event designed to help …
If you want to look 10 years older – become a heavy drinker. Of course, most people don’t want to look 10 years older, but the fact is alcohol makes you look much older than you really are. It is pretty easy to spot a heavy drinker just from looking at their face, not to …
Wow – it was 12 months ago today that I chose to live a life without alcohol, where did the time go! How the hell did I do that!?! As you may know if you are a member of the Be Sober Facebook group or a regular reader of my blog, I was drinking one …
I am delighted to share a guest post by Jenny Amir, HPD, DipCHyp, NLPM.Prac, MNCH, CNHC Cognitive Hypnotherapist & NLP Master Practitioner Over the past 14 years as a Cognitive Hypnotherapist in London, I have found hypnotherapy to be amazingly successful when helping people to overcome alcohol dependency. In much the same way that hypnotherapy …
As you may know I now work as a coach for Annie Grace and the team at This Naked Mind. It still amazes me how I have gone from a bottle of wine a day enthusiastic drinker to a happily sober alcohol coach! I was coaching in one of the This Naked Mind groups recently …
I get asked a lot about quitting alcohol and weight loss, it is a hot topic and one that I wanted to share my own experiences of. Most people don’t quit alcohol just to lose weight, there is usually much more to it. For me I was sick and tired of drinking wine every night …
In a recent coaching session we spoke about Liberation v Fixation. The topic made me stop and think and it really hit home to me how much I was ‘fixated’ when I was drinking. If you are reading this blog you have probably asked yourself the dreaded question ‘Am I An Alcoholic?’, I know I …
Someone asked me an interesting question this week – ‘Do I feel a sense of shame when I tell people I don’t drink’. My immediate answer was ‘HELL NO’ – In fact it is the complete opposite, I am proud of being sober and the positive changes I have made to my life, why on …
I am so excited that we can now allow our members to buy their very own Be Sober hoodies! We have a range of Be Sober goodies coming and there will soon be a Be Sober shop link in the menu on this website. They come in a range of cool colours and sizes and …
