3 February 2021 — DrinkCoach DrinkCoach asked Will, Alcohol Advisor from the West Sussex Wellbeing Team to document his new year’s resolution to cut back on alcohol. Read his series of blogs throughout Dry January Blog 9/10 “To sleep perchance to dream” or giving up the booze to have a better snooze. I cut the quote to the title of this blog short as it seemed a bit morbid. What I wanted to write about today was how much better I am sleeping now that I have laid off the booze. I thought I was…

2 February 2021 — DrinkCoach DrinkCoach asked Will, Alcohol Advisor from the West Sussex Wellbeing Team to document his new year’s resolution to cut back on alcohol. Read his series of blogs throughout Dry January Blog 8/10 “We go again” the mantra that Liverpool Football Club used which took them (among other things) to their first league win since… a long time. What I am asking though is how do we maintain behaviour once we have established it? Whether that’s…

27 January 2021 — DrinkCoach DrinkCoach asked Will, Alcohol Advisor from the West Sussex Wellbeing Team to document his new year’s resolution to cut back on alcohol. Read his series of blogs throughout Dry January Blog 7/10 Temptation (free cheese is always available in mouse traps) Some days it just seems too hard, why bother, why not take the path of least resistance, to accept I like a drink and so I should just drink, it’s easy. So let’s go to the fridge and open a beer, except past…

25 January 2021 — DrinkCoach DrinkCoach asked Will, Alcohol Advisor from the West Sussex Wellbeing Team to document his new year’s resolution to cut back on alcohol. Read his series of blogs throughout Dry January Blog 6/10 “Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it” - Churchill, Santayana, Me It’s all gone wrong, belly up, boozed up. Best laid plans and all that, this week my units were on the up rather than the down.

22 January 2021 — DrinkCoach DrinkCoach asked Will, Alcohol Advisor from the West Sussex Wellbeing Team to document his new year’s resolution to cut back on alcohol. Read his series of blogs throughout Dry January Blog 5/10 Reasons for drinking. So I thought I was a social drinker and I am to an extent, but more secretly and unbeknownst to me I’m a mood drinker. I’ve been keeping a drinks diary to record when and why I have been drinking…

18 January 2021 — DrinkCoach DrinkCoach asked Will, Alcohol Advisor from the West Sussex Wellbeing Team to document his new year’s resolution to cut back on alcohol. Read his series of blogs throughout Dry January Blog 4/10 …everyone’s watching, red wine does not have the ability to turn you into a ‘Strictly’ dancer, well maybe one that gets booted out on week 1. Confidence, confidence, confidence: if you say it three times in front of a mirror at midnight will…

12 January 2021 — DrinkCoach DrinkCoach asked Will, Alcohol Advisor from the West Sussex Wellbeing Team to document his new year’s resolution to cut back on alcohol. Read his series of blogs throughout Dry January… Blog 3/10 GOALS So the long term goal is to drop below 14 units a week and I’m currently sitting on 57 units a week. This seems like a lot, too much, too big a problem… is it a problem? …

7 January 2021 — DrinkCoach DrinkCoach asked Will, Alcohol Advisor from the West Sussex Wellbeing Team to document his new year’s resolution to cut back on alcohol. Read his series of blogs throughout Dry January… Blog 2/10 PLAN So what does my plan look like? Where do I start? I could just go for it, jump right in? It might work… but probably not. …

5 January 2021 — DrinkCoach DrinkCoach asked Will, Alcohol Advisor from the West Sussex Wellbeing Team to document his new year’s resolution to cut back on alcohol. Read his series of blogs throughout Dry January… Blog 1/10 Winter is here, the kids are back to school and the New Year is in. The coronavirus has been tough on us all and has forced us to change our lives in incredibly drastic ways. …