SoberTides

05/10/2026

Flight up to Truro Flats Airpark and back home along the driver Murray. Nice day for it even though it was a little bumpy under the clouds ❤️

26/09/2026

As a long-term member of Alcohol Coaches Australia, I wanted to share with you that our original website has been revamped with a fresh, clean look.
Alcohol Coaches Australia still functions as an online directory that helps people find and compare Australian alcohol coaches.

Each coach listed is certified and their coaching approach reflects the methodology instilled at the This Naked Mind Institute or equivalent. They share a common, compassionate desire to help people change their relationship with alcohol, be that drinking less, on occasion or just not at all. They do not believe in judgement, shame or assigning labels.

I remember back to when I was trying to stop drinking for a second time in 2020. There still weren't a lot of options compared to 2007. AA was as always, the main player in the sobriety game. This Naked Mind had only just started its coaching program the year before, but it had an excellent podcast and an active online community based in the USA. There didn't appear to be any Australian based coaches or programs on Google.

Now there's a whole community of coaches here in Australia, supporting anyone who wants to change their relationship with alcohol.

https://www.alcoholcoachesaustralia.com.au

16/09/2026

Alcohol Coaches Australia has a fresh new look! A clean, rebuilt directory to help you find certified Australian alcohol coaches trained in This Naked Mind approach (or equivalent). Compassionate, evidence-based support when you need it.
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As a long-term member of Alcohol Coaches Australia, I wanted to share with you that our original website has been revamped with a fresh, clean look. Alcohol Coaches Australia still functions as an online directory that helps people find and compare Australian alcohol coaches.

31/08/2026

Identity shifts are common, almost mandatory in changing your relationship with alcohol. But they don’t happen in a big bang event, or a flip the switch moment, it’s much more subtle. A slight shift in spoken words and tone, a new confidence in body language, tell tale signs that a new identity is emerging.. read how it happens in this months blog..

Coaching requires a particular kind of listening. Not just to what a client says, but to how he says it. The words he chooses. The ones he avoids. The slight change in posture when something resonates. The longer pause before an answer that tells you more than the answer itself. You're watching and....

06/08/2026

I lost my toolbox. Not misplaced it, not lent it to someone and forgotten who. It fell off the back of my ute while I was driving home, bounced across the road and was gone inside six minutes! Twenty kilos of tools I had been collecting and using for forty years, including specialist tools I had made myself for maintaining my own aircraft. Gone. Just like that. What followed was a bunch of emotions I didn't expect..

I lost my toolbox last week. Not misplaced it, not lent it to someone and forgotten who. It fell off the back of my ute while I was driving home, bounced across the road and was gone inside six minutes! Twenty kilos of tools I had been collecting and using for forty years, including specialist tools...

06/07/2026

He held the wh***ey a long time before he drank it. Not because he wanted it but because saying no felt like disrespect.

That single belief, never once questioned, is doing more damage than the drink itself. Read the full story here.

He held the wh***ey a long time before he drank it.It was a quiet night in a friend's lounge room, no occasion to speak of, and the friend had poured two glasses without asking. He wasn't thirsty. He just didn't want to be the one who said no.He told me about it weeks later, still turning it over. "...

02/07/2026

I spent a long time asking myself whether I had a problem with alcohol.

Not out loud but in my head. It usually started in that window between waking up and getting out of bed, then in the shower, at my desk over coffee, on the drive home.

I was good at thinking things through, solving problems. I’d built a career on it. So I thought this through, thoroughly and continuously.

I solved precisely: nothing.

That was the loop.

It sounds like this. You drink too much but plenty of people drink too much. You use it to relax and unwind but next day you feel more wound up than ever. You’ve cut back before when you needed to, so you could do it again. But you haven’t, not in any way that looked like success. So you go back to the question.

Is it a problem, or isn’t it?

Read More here:

I spent a long time asking myself whether I had a problem with alcohol. Not out loud but in my head. It usually started in that window between waking up and getting out of bed, then in the shower, at my desk over coffee, on the drive home.I was good at thinking things through, solving problems. I’...

20/06/2026

What Happens to Your Body When You Stop Drinking?

Nobody tells you about the Blue Wrens.

They tell you about the liver. They tell you about blood pressure and sleep cycles and the number of calories you are no longer consuming. How the mind will become clearer. All of that is true and all of it matters.
But the thing that actually stopped me one afternoon, about three months after I stopped drinking, was a pair of tiny blue wrens flitting about in our garden. I stood there watching them, genuinely watching them, as they moved through the garden like tiny raptors seeking out the bugs. Surrounded by soft afternoon light through the leaves and the scent of flowers, gum trees and damp undergrowth in the fresh air. Taking it all in.

Read more here:

Nobody tells you about the blue wrens. They tell you about the liver. They tell you about blood pressure and sleep cycles and the number of calories you are no longer consuming. How the mind will become clearer. All of that is true and all of it matters. But the thing that actually stopped me one af...

16/06/2026

How Long Until I Feel Better After Stopping Alcohol?

Its a common question that we ask ourselves, usually when considering or reconsidering a break from alcohol.

Not just "should I stop drinking" or "do I have a problem" but the quiet, practical question underneath all of that: if I do this,

"When does it actually get better?"

Most men asking that question have already had a go at stopping. Maybe more than once. They went back to drinking in the first week or they made it to the third week and restarted then. The reason is almost always the same. They did not know what they were looking at. The first week feels harder than expected and they conclude something is wrong. The third week feels better than expected and they conclude they are done.

Both of those readings are wrong and both lead back to drinking... Read more below:

It is one of the most common questions a man can ask himself when considering the role of alcohol in his life.Not just "should I stop drinking" or "do I have a problem" but the quiet, practical question underneath all of that: if I do this, "When does it actually get better?"Most men asking that que...

08/06/2026

Perhaps you've read the This Naked Mind book. Maybe you've done a course. You understand the ideas, the way alcohol was sold to you, the way the subconscious beliefs were built up over years.
It all makes sense. Logically, you're there.

And yet.

Emotionally, the thoughts... How will I handle this without drinking? What will people think? Will I lose friends and associates if I don't drink?..

Tony Richardson Certified This Naked Mind coach. The only male TNM coach in Australia working with men over 40 still stuck in the gap between knowing and .