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.
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 …
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. …
I have been reading the excellent book Mrs D Is Going Without by Lotta Dann, it really is an fantastic read and a must-have for any ‘quit-lit’ enthusiasts. In one of the chapters Lotta explains how she had an awakening when she realised that her drinking problem was a way of suppressing her emotions, in other words a …
It’s the question that anyone who starts to worry about their relationship with alcohol asks themselves ‘am I an alcoholic?’. The common perception of an alcoholic is someone who drinks in the morning or is sat in a shop doorway with a bottle in a brown bag, but this really isn’t the case. If you’re anything …
