Welcome to Sober Bubble!
Supporting sobriety & daily wellness through experience.
Our founder, Darren G. Taylor, author of ‘Finding Your Sober Bubble’, certified Life Coach and self-confessed binge drinker, has experienced an eclectic reality of life. With many highs and lows, and having kicked alcohol into touch he now brings this experience together with a clear objective:
‘To encourage and help those wanting to ditch alcohol for sobriety, by creating a support network with tools & techniques to improve our daily wellness’.
Sobriety is not just cutting out alcohol or substance abuse, it’s a way of life. That is why, ‘The Uni of everyday Life’ offers all the tools you need to find your very own sober bubble and contentment.
Here you will find helpful downloads, top tips, regular blogs, useful contacts, ideas for drinks and many other resources to help achieve your goals.
We should accept that people do make their own mistakes, but with core values, determination, hope and humour we can get back on track.
Wishing you every success… Darren
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Latest Blog Posts
How Times Change: 18 Months Sober & 6 (of many) Interesting Realisations
How Times Change: 18 Months Sober & 6 (of many) Realisations After almost 18 months as a non-drinker, I had one of those moments the other day when you realise how different you have become since choosing sobriety. It is nothing short of bizarre really. The other...
6 (not so obvious) Reasons Why Drinking Alcohol Increased During Lockdown
Why Drinking Alcohol Increased During Lockdown: There is no denying it. Britain and other countries, particularly the U.S. drank more than usual during lockdown. But what about now? As we ease out of lockdown, there is still the prevalent fear of a second wave and...
Tips to Get Through a Stressful Day
Tips to Get Through a Stressful Day We all know that these days occur. You know, the ones where you just think your head is more likely to explode than shine positivity into your day. Upon waking up you are filled with dread about the day ahead and the easiest thing...
Wellness Goals: Benefits of Journaling
Wellness Goals: Benefits of Journaling It must be obvious that I like to write and even before I started this website, I always found that writing my thoughts down somehow helps me mentally. There were times as I’m sure you can imagine when I spend time in the...
‘Finding Your Sober Bubble’ – New Sober Book Out 27th August 2020
New Sober Book Recommendation! 'Finding Your Sober Bubble': Overcome alcohol by understanding emotions & circumstance Wow! I am so excited to post about this because writing was a hidden passion for me for so many years and through sobriety, I decided that I could...
Feeling Good: Laughter is The Best Medicine for Health
Feeling Good: Laughter is The Best Medicine for Health How many times have you heard the term laughter is the best medicine? I have many times and whilst it is a phrase used to try and cheer someone up, I happen to believe that sometimes I can be funny, even if it’s...
Mental Health Awareness: Help Through Listening
Mental Health Awareness: Help Through Listening Trying to be available to support and help your friends, family, and others when you are aware that they are struggling with their mental health can be very hard and confusing but mutual support is powerful. If someone...
Talking in Recovery: A Sober Story by Paul Harris
Sober Story: Paul Harris Paul Harris is a guy on Instagram who holds experience because he has been there seen it and done it. Being sober for over 6 years with no relapse shows character and I am grateful that he has shared his story of success having suffered from...
9 Ways to Stress Relief and Stress Management
Stress Management Relief Techniques There are some practical and straightforward things you can do if you begin to feel stressed, anxious or sad. For example, you could try continuing with your work and focus on something constructive or think of a happy or funny...
Mental Health: Stress, Anxiety & Depression Defined
Mental Health: Defining Stress, Anxiety & Depression This crazy fast World we live in these days, even before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, can be a confusing, stressful, worrying and traumatic time for many people just on an everyday basis. While the...
Neuro Linguistic Programming ( NLP ): Inspiring Benefits
NLP: How it Helped me You may well have seen me mention NLP in my story as it is by far one of the biggest positive influences in my life. Having been to "counselling" in the past without any real success, I then met Jill Cowley, a fully qualified NLP Master...
Recovery from Addiction Comes in all Shapes & Sizes
Addiction and Companionship I follow a guy on my Instagram called Chris and like me, he has a Miniature Dachshund, and like me he has been affected by a craving for something which has led to some difficult times. I wanted to share Chris’s story following on from a...
Boost Your Immune System in a Sober Lockdown
Way to boost your immune system and remain sober I recently spent some time learning about the immune system and being the nice fella I am, I want to share this with you. During these times of Covid-19, the need to boost your immune system is more pressing than ever,...
My Story and Epic My “No Binge Drinking” Song
My Story and a No Binge Drinking Song: "Binge Drinker" Words by Me, Melody by Someone Else I became sober and said no binge drinking over a year ago and want to help others wanting to do the same so I decided that for my 1 year sober anniversary I would pick up the...
De-cluttering Your Life to Maintain Sobriety and be Healthy During Lockdown
One Effective Way to Maintain Sobriety during the Lockdown It is simple, we are the busiest generation yet, here there and everywhere so being stuck in one place can drive us crazy if we let it, but these days it can be difficult for even the most organised amongst us...
What is Personal Inventory and Why it is a Good Idea Whether You Are in AA (Step 4) or Not
Personal Inventory and Why it is a Good Idea Whether you are in AA ( Step 4 ) or Not Whether you are part of AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) or not is something of personal choice and there is more than one route to sobriety. As you may know, it wasn’t for me but I did go...
6 Reasons Why Dogs Can Help in Continued Sobriety
6 Reasons Why Dogs Can Help in Continued Sobriety I was inspired into this post by a guy on Instagram who wrote (and I quote) “He’s the reason I’m still here, they are the best” It was about his Mini Dachshund and I too have a Mini D called Stanley (pic on the right)...
Everything you need to know about Alcohol Cravings and how to deal with them
Alcohol Cravings are one of the most difficult things to handle and whilst on the roller coaster ride of quitting alcohol, also something that when we hit the realisation that we need to stop drinking, frighten us the most. The discomfort you feel when cravings hit is...
Looking After Your Health & Wellness: 8 Nutritional Tips to Help You Along The Way
Looking after your Health & Wellness: 8 Nutritional tips to help you along the way If you find you have less focus throughout the day (was me), have trouble sleeping (used to be me) or are just a little more rounded at the edges than you would like (still me),...
Mocktails & Me: My Awesome Easter Bun-ny Mocktail
My Easter Bun-ny Mocktail Easter, whilst a religious celebration, is also known for the celebration of food and chocolate in the form of eggs. I love this time of year what with the crisp mornings, blue sky, daffodils, the birds chirping and…. Hot Cross Buns. I love...