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Personal Stories

A choice I don’t regret: A year without drinking

This week’s guest blog is from Leonie, one of the featured stars from Hello Sunday Morning’s ‘The Talk We Needed’ Campaign. It’s life changing when I see how different I am as a woman  today, as mother, wife, friend and daughter, and apparently I am changing lives by living life out loud! I am enjoying

Being there

A transcript from Anxiety Depression | Meditation Mindfulness video by Nathan Cavaleri  Meditation and mindfulness played a huge role in getting me back up on stage. Not long ago it was an ordeal for me just to go down the road and have drinks with a mate. I didn’t understand the relationship between thoughts and biochemistry,

Counting my blessings

By Jada Bennett-Cross I remember a morning where my son brought me a heart-shaped rock. It was so beautiful, and his precious little face was so proud, yet I felt so deeply sad.  You see, I was hungover (again) and my whole body hurt. I was in pieces, and I was sure I was hiding

The one surprising thing that made it easy to give up alcohol for good

This week’s guest blog is from Vari Longmuir, a Melbourne-based illustrator and life coach. She helps creative women build businesses with more intention, authenticity and clarity. Vari has just celebrated 12 months since she chose to remove alcohol from her life. She shares her journey so far and why traumatic rock bottoms are not necessary in order to

So we decided on an alcohol-free weekend in the wine country …

  “If you are a single woman and you’ve made a commitment to moderate your drinking this year, which holiday destination would you choose for a weekend away … surely not the Hunter Valley wine region? Yet this is the very place I chose to go. What’s more, I suggested the idea to a colleague

Am I an alcoholic?

This week’s guest blog is from Hannah Rodger, a sales director in the recruitment industry – one of many high-pressure industries where there is social pressure to drink. She shares some insights into her journey of 18 months of sobriety and the questions she gets asks, and asks herself.  Am I an alcoholic? I had

Courageous conversations without a drink in your hand

This week we have a guest blog from Nicole, a courageous and intelligent woman who was diagnosed with bowel cancer and took action action to regain as much control of her life as possible, including changing her relationship with alcohol, which was not easy … for others.    I had terminal cancer, a glass of

30 ideas on how to give up alcohol, from people who have given up alcohol!

Here at Hello Sunday Morning we know what a huge question ‘should I give up alcohol’? can be to even put out to the universe. It’s not easy to give up something that’s incorporated into your daily dinner, salubrious socialising, or relaxation routine. We know how hard it is for our community and our Daybreak

A marathon a day for 28 days: a legacy of life with less alcohol

This week’s guest blog is from Mark Avery, who works for Vodafone, allied to HSM’s longest continual supporter, the Vodafone Foundation. Mark has a massively ambitious plan to raise awareness for various causes, including HSM next year, and we’re grateful, but also a little nervous … In June 2020 I’m going to be running 968