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 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 …
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 …
After twenty (or more) years of drinking red wine every single day I started to get niggling thoughts entering my head, I put up with them for years. They would say things like ‘you know you drink too much’ and ‘you will die young if you keep drinking like this’. My strategy tended to be …
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 …
Dear Red Wine (specifically Ms Shiraz) I remember the first time we met, you swept me off my feet. Nobody had ever made me feel like this, I was wild, free and uninhibited with you. Your beauty, power, smell and taste gave me confidence, wit and a whole new perception on things. You allowed me …
I was really honoured to have the opportunity to interview Katie Lang from SoberLove this week. Watch the video here, Katie talks about her own sober journey and shares some great tips for anyone looking to change their own relationship with alcohol. PLEASE JOIN THE DISCUSSION AND LEAVE A COMMENT BELOW
I am writing this at Rome airport on my way home to London following a trip with my teenage son. Everything was going great until we were about to board the plane home, at which point we were informed there was a technical problem and we wouldn’t be leaving anytime soon! After a long period …
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 …
After a couple of weeks sober and realising that I would never return to drinking alcohol again I was feeling rather proud of myself and started to feel like I wanted to tell people, however, I had read in some of the sober-books that not everyone might be as excited and enthusiastic as I was. …
It was 90 days of being sober this weekend, this is a pretty big milestone and I am amazed I have come so far, I clearly remember believing that I couldn’t even go one day without drinking red wine. The support of the Be Sober Facebook group has been amazing and the number of members …
