I Quit Drinking After 40 Years — Now I Help Others Rewire Their Minds and Change Their Lives

I’m Ian Callaghan — a mindset and sobriety coach, NLP Master Practitioner, Reiki Master, and someone who spent four decades trapped in a cycle of self-destruction. I didn’t take the textbook route to recovery. I built my own. Now I help others do the same.

For over 40 years, I drank. Heavily. I also leaned on codeine, benzos, and cocaine. I was in the army. I witnessed trauma, lived through chaos, and internalised pain I never knew how to process. Like many, I used substances to numb — because feeling wasn’t safe. Because silence felt better than screaming.

Eventually, the numbing stopped working. So I had two choices: slowly die inside, or fight like hell to change.

No Rehab. No AA. No Sponsors. Just Radical Self-Responsibility.

I didn’t “surrender to a higher power” or sit in church basements sipping instant coffee. I turned inward. I started visualising a version of me who was sober, healthy, lighter — and I built that version from the ground up.

“What I Use — Because I’ve Lived It”

✅ NLP (Master Practitioner)
✅ Personal Development Coaching
✅ Meditation & Mindfulness
✅ Hypnotherapy
✅ Reiki Master
✅ Nutrition & Culinary Expertise
✅ Cold Water Therapy (50+ years)

I used the mindset techniques I now teach.

Everything I teach, I live. Every tool I offer, I’ve used myself.

This Isn’t Just About Sobriety — It’s About Reclaiming Your Power.

When I quit drinking, I didn’t just gain my mornings back — I gained clarity. Energy. Purpose. Self-respect. Confidence. Emotional freedom.

And now, I help others break out of their own mental prisons — whether that’s alcohol, self-sabotage, toxic thinking, or limiting beliefs that have kept them stuck for decades.

This isn’t therapy. It’s not a support group. It’s a guided, no-bullshit journey of mindset rewiring, nervous system reset, and deep personal transformation.

…you’ll also find tools like the Mindset Mastery Bundle and even an AI Coach trained to help you stay sober on your terms.