Personal Stories
Dear Chris
To mark the ten-year anniversary of Hello Sunday Morning, we asked our founder, Chris Raine, to write a letter of advice to his younger self… Dear Chris, The next decade of your life will be defined by excessive drinking… but not in the way you think. The next ten years will actually be defined by
Nick Bracks: How giving up alcohol turned his life around
Nick Bracks: I’m 32 now. It was from 19 until my mid-twenties that I was really abusing alcohol. I had a hard time growing up. There were issues with overthinking, and obsessive behaviour – initially focusing around sport. I had a whole lot of social issues and I guess I was hiding away from problems, so
A hundred day ones
By: Molly Stroud My first Day One was over a decade ago. I was a single mother of three who had just finished fast tracking a bachelor’s degree and was working my way through Teacher’s College. I was in a tumultuous relationship. Money was tight, stresses were high, and I had been actively self-medicating with
My journey to quitting – how a 90 day challenge turned into more
This week’s guest blog is from Samantha Webb, who is passionate about educating people with to our drinking culture and the impact of heavy drinking on physical and mental health, relationships and general wellbeing. She’s now involved with Untoxicated – an alcohol free social tribe. Find out more about them here. On the 1st of February this
The pressures of business & alcohol
This is an edited transcript of a conversation between Hello Sunday Morning and Luke Bayliss, CEO and Founder of Sumo Salads, a $90 million fully Australian-owned business. Luke discusses the pressures of creating a new business from scratch and how he has learned to radically change his relationship with alcohol. I was a young
What they don’t tell you about the nursing profession.
This week’s guest blog is Kristy Riggall, an ex-nurse turned commerce & behavioural sciences student. You can read more about her on her website here. The use of alcohol is rife in the health industry. It’s just hidden. I was an enrolled nurse for 8 years until I decided to take a hiatus mid-2018, due
Sober and social: How to find your sober community
Humans are social creatures by design; we crave interaction with others. Hell, it’s even been attributed to longer life expectancy! So the ability to socialise, whether it be with a few people or many, is so important for our wellbeing. Unfortunately, in our society, socialising is overwhelmingly tied-up with drinking alcohol. We come together to