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.
With Christmas just around the corner comes a time when many of us like to over-indulge. This can mean drinking a lot more alcohol than usual. I remember how I used to use the festive period as an excuse to buy much more red wine that I would normally have (as if I wasn’t having …
I remember exactly how it felt. I would drink red wine (heavily) every evening, then the next day through my foggy head I would feel a sense of regret alongside unease and worry about the damage the daily boozing was doing to my mind and my body. But the thought of stopping drinking just seemed …
I am often asked how long it takes for the challenging period to subside when you first give up drinking and to be in a place where the thoughts of alcohol are few and far between. When you stop drinking alcohol the first week or two can feel like a really tough challenge, you will …
I get asked quite a lot how I went from drinking a bottle of wine (or more) every day to stopping drinking alcohol forever. It wasn’t easy at the start, I found the hardest part was getting beyond the first day. After twenty plus years of drinking wine every day it was a hard habit …
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 …
How to put the glass down and stop drinking I am writing this after 58 days of not drinking and have been thinking about how hard I found it to actually say STOP. The 57 days that have followed on my sober journey have been far easier than the fear and dread that accompanied the …
