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.
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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 …
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 …
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 have spoken before about the ‘Big Domino’ and how when you push it over so many other amazing and unexpected things happen. It really is so true! When we quit drinking we have our own reasons for making the decision. Usually health, relationships, regretful behaviour or the pain of addiction, we don’t think about …
When I first announced to the world on Facebook that I no longer drank alcohol one of the first comments simply said ‘Boring’…ouch! After I thought about it, I started to understand why someone would make this comment, I always used to think people who didn’t drink were complete losers who were missing out on all the …
It has been a while since I posted, sorry about that! A while ago someone said to me that when you quit drinking there are so many huge benefits and often new opportunities arise that you never expected. Of course, at the time I didn’t give it much thought, but now I know it really …
Many of the issues experienced when we try and quit drinking come from the way we think, people convince themselves they can’t do it because some of the thoughts they have tell them they can’t. I hear statements like this all the time: ‘I can never quit drinking, I have always been like this and …
