Tag: personal story

Alex was a regular drinker. For years she was proud of being that big drinker in social settings and she didn’t think she had a problem with alcohol until everything snuck up on her as her life unfolded.

After a regretful night involving alcohol and the authorities, Shell decided to seek support to help get on top of her relationship with alcohol. The journey involved quite a few twists and turns.

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

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

This week, we have a guest post from our mates at Sober in the Country, curated by Shanna Whan.  I can’t speak for anyone else’s experience of beating their alcohol addiction. In my case, there was this tiny, seemingly inconsequential moment – the kind that happens thousands of times a day – that proved the

In its earlier days, Hello Sunday Morning encouraged people to “do an HSM challenge” – a period of three, six or 12 months completely without alcohol. I recently started working as Head of Marketing with HSM and decided to get into character by giving this a go for the first quarter of this year. I