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.
BBC Radio Surrey & Sussex invited me on air this morning to discuss how drinking alcohol during the lockdown has increased and what advice I could give people who are becoming concerned about their relationship with alcohol. You can listen to the interview below.
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 …
I thought it would be good to have a Be Sober emergency plan, a mantra we can use if we ever think we are going to slip up. A bit like ‘in the event of a fire break glass’. After a bit of thought I came up with PMSL (which also means Piss My Self …
I recently had the opportunity to interview Annie Grace author of This Naked Mind and founder of The Alcohol Experiment. This Naked Mind was the book that enabled my to change my own relationship with alcohol, it made me adapt my mindset from ‘Can’t Have’ a drink to ‘Don’t Want’ one, so I was really …
My drinking habit had generally been to break open a bottle (or more) of red wine in the evening after my Son had gone to bed, I would normally watch TV and drink with my Wife. Generally, she would have one or maybe two glasses and I would go through the whole bottle and often …
This has been quite a week in my little sober-world… It has been one full of milestones, three of them to be precise. First of all, the Be Sober private Facebook group is about to reach 600 members, which is quite frankly incredible. The group is simply amazing, we have members from all over the …
Since I quit drinking alcohol I have enjoyed trying many different alcohol-free drinks, however one area that is a cause for some controversy among the sober community is alcohol-free beers and wines. Some people love them, some people don’t go near them. Personally, I enjoy a cold bottle of Becks Blue, but I wouldn’t go near …
After a month of being sober and knowing I would never return to drinking alcohol I was feeling really pleased with myself. This was possibly the biggest achievement and most positive life-change I have ever made, I never thought I could have done this! I wanted to tell people, surely everyone else would be as …
I remember the day, I had been drinking red wine the night before (probably a bottle or more) as I did every single night. It was mid-morning and my head was full of the usual fuzzy feeling from having too much alcohol, then I noticed my hands, they were shaking uncontrollably. I had never had …
10 Fears you have to face in order to quit drinking alcohol When the first thoughts of quitting drinking started jabbing away at my brain (guilt and self-loathing I think it’s called), I never thought it would turn into anything more than exactly that, a few thoughts that I would keep on dismissing, before very …
