Welcome to Ian’s World of Personal Development Coaching and Outdoor Adventures! If you’re looking for a personal development coach who’s passionate about the outdoors, you’ve come to the right place Ian’s world. Ian is a man in his 50’s who’s dedicated to helping others achieve their goals and become the best version of themselves. With…
It is 3am. You are wide awake. The house is quiet, and your head is anything but. That pull has arrived again, the one that feels like need, like urgency, like something that will not leave you alone until you give it what it wants. Alcohol cravings at 3 am do not feel like a…
Alcohol anxiety: Alcohol does not relieve anxiety. It borrows calm from your nervous system using GABA, then charges compound interest overnight. The cortisol rebound, disrupted REM sleep, and autonomic nervous system chaos that follow every drink manufacture more anxiety than you started with. The loop feeds itself until you stop feeding it. 3 AM. You…
Your inner voice is a PR firm: a survival mechanism in the brain that generates convincing, emotionally tailored justifications for habitual behaviours, particularly those that relieve discomfort fast. It is not your conscience, your wisdom, or your authentic self. It is a miscalibrated system running outdated programming. Understanding that is the first step to stopping…
You know that feeling. The blood sugar spike crash cycle has been running your body since breakfast. You just didn’t know that’s what it was called. Half ten in the morning, and your energy falls off a cliff. Two in the afternoon, and your brain stops working like someone pulled the plug. Three o’clock and…
The blunt answer Food quality changes alcohol cravings because cravings do not come from nowhere. They come from state, Load, learned pattern and available capacity. If the body is running on poor sleep, ultra-processed food, blood sugar crashes, stress, pain and emotional suppression, the old alcohol pattern gets louder because the system is looking for…
You want to quit drinking without AA. You are not alone,e and you are not wrong. I am 58. I drank for 45 years. My father’s homebrew was the first drink. The army culture made drinking to excess something to excel at rather than something to manage, and twenty-five years as an IT Technical Architect…
Right, listen up. If you’re here, chances are you’re staring down the barrel of midlife and wondering why, despite all your efforts, you’re still getting in your own damn way. You’ve probably tried to change, to push through, to ‘think positive’ – and you’ve likely ended up exactly where you started: frustrated, stuck, and maybe…
If your husband is having a midlife crisis, you are probably watching something you cannot name, cannot reach, and cannot fix for him. This post explains what is actually happening, from someone who has been on the other side of it. I was that partner. I am 58. I spent 12 years in the British…
I am 58. I spent 12 years in the British Army and 25 years as an IT Technical Architect. I quit drinking after 45 years on the winter solstice of 2024. In the months that followed, I lost over 5 stone, reversed a pre-diabetes diagnosis, and watched my HRV data tell a story my GP…
Welsh Fry Nutrition: What 40 Years of Real Food Actually Looks Like This is a plate of Welsh Fry eaten at 5 pm after a day of exercise, eating rather than grazing on processed food. One meal. Everything on it is sourced within a few miles of where I’m sitting. Everything on it has a…
Emotional Sobriety: What Nobody Tells You About Being Sober But Still a Mess Emotional Sobriety. You stopped drinking. So why are you still losing your shit? You did the hard part. You put the drink down. Maybe you white-knuckled it; maybe it clicked one day, and you just stopped; maybe you did it quietly without…
Alcohol withdrawal symptoms occur when the brain’s chemical balance is disrupted after stopping or significantly reducing alcohol. They typically begin 6 to 12 hours after the last drink and include anxiety, tremors, sweating, nausea, and insomnia. Symptoms peak between 24 and 72 hours. Severe symptoms — including seizures and delirium tremens — can be life-threatening…
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