Tag: Psychology

 If there was one core question that the Hello Sunday Morning project is an attempt to try and answer, I believe that question would be ‘how do we change the behaviour of those around us?’ More specifically, how do we change a normalised, very attractive behaviour like binge drinking? This post highlights what I believe

This post explores the final component to the psychology that drives binge drinking – Emotional Intelligence. Emotional Intelligence (in my view) is the ability to manage our emotions and understand the emotions and feelings of others.  I would like to explore how in western society, we largely put alcohol in charge to do this for

Continuing on with this series of posts on the drivers behind our binge drinking culture, I want to now explore the psychological driver of ‘purpose’. What does it mean to have purpose? How does a young person lose it? how it is found? and how does a lack of it translate into dysfunctional drinking behaviour.  A person

I have chosen to bare my soul a little and write about some of the conditioning I have had in my past that has led me personally to drink to excess.  Before I get into this post, I just want to say that writing these next three blogs has been one of the hardest, soul

I have now become completely confident being in pretty much any social environment while sober. And how long did it take? Around about three months and 15 days. Which really isn’t that long when you think about how I have had to undo about seven years of self and social conditioning that told me I

Its Friday afternoon. For most of you reading, those three little words ‘it’s Friday afternoon’ (especially if it actually is Friday afternoon) no doubt conjure up images of the imminent social excesses you are about to experience over the weekend. Me too.