GOING ALCOHOL-FREE: HOW AN IDENTITY SHIFT CHANGES EVERYTHING

I’m delighted to share that I recently joined Janet Gourand on the Tribe Sober podcast for a powerful conversation about alcohol-free living, limiting beliefs and the identity shift that sits at the heart of lasting change.

In the episode, we explore why willpower alone is rarely enough when it comes to changing your relationship with alcohol. For me, the turning point came when I stopped seeing myself as “a drinker trying to stop” and fully stepped into the identity of “I am a non-drinker.” That one shift changed everything.

We talk about the beliefs that keep people stuck in the drinking cycle – the idea that alcohol helps us relax, gives us confidence, helps us connect, or makes life more fun. Through coaching, hypnotherapy and practical mindset tools, those beliefs can be challenged, dismantled and replaced with something far more empowering.

During the conversation, I share tools from my own alcohol-free journey and my work as a hypnotherapist, life coach and author of Walking Back to Happiness, including the “tabletop technique,” future-self visualisation, the importance of environment and community, and the surprising physical benefits of going alcohol-free – including my calculation that I’ve saved around 26 million heartbeats since stopping drinking.

A huge thank you to Janet and Tribe Sober for such a warm and meaningful conversation. I hope this episode supports anyone who is sober curious, taking a break, or ready to create a new identity beyond alcohol.

Listen here:
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-an-identify-shift-changes-everything-with-nigel-jones/id1513124200?i=1000765740641
YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTjCtESlivs

Tribe Sober – https://www.tribesober.com/

Podbean – https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ip8ux-1aabe8e

Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/episode/3CDEbmmSL2oLrdOjDWDCli

Find out more about my coaching, hypnotherapy and alcohol-free work

https://www.9kmby9am.com/coaching/alcohol-free-coaching/

My book Walking Back To Happiness: The Secret To Alcohol Free Living & Well-being https://amzn.eu/d/0ckj7Th6