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WHERE AM I NOW? (brendan horsfall)
23/02/10 • 3 Comments

Where am I now? So it’s been just longer than 3 months and I ask myself the question what am I getting out of my HSM experience right now? I’m really struggling with this concept. I am somebody who was historically a heavy drinker but haven’t for more than 12 months. Throughout the biggest social season of the year there were some definate challenges and I learnt alot about myself and others drinking “habits”. The 2 greatest learnings for me has been my confidence when out in social situations and gaining connection and social interaction with people who have had a shandy or two. HSM is an awesome vehicle for these things! I am on my own journey of personal growth and HSM is just one avenue that I am walking down. I’m ever qualifying the things i do, have, feel, believe and limit myself to. The real thing that [...]

What do I want for me? (by Brendan Horsfall)
05/02/10 • 0 Comments

The last few weeks have been an amazing experience of letting go. Allowing myself to let go of expectation, obligation and others hopes for me. Im such a people person and that often leads to me being enlisted in other peoples dreams through their passion and enthusiasm, but it leads me down the wrong path. I have spent a lot of my life feeling obligated to be a certain person. Or feeling expectation from influential people in my life. My perception of their expectation that I create, even if it doesn’t exist. And I know what your thinking… Why the hell would you do that? We as people are shaped by the experiences in our lives. Be it good or bad. And we learn in these experiences by the emotion that we feel. And that emotion can create a behaviour that we use to choose to feel or avoid that [...]

me, the story so far… (by brendan horsfall)
24/01/10 • 0 Comments

This is my first weekly blog from here until the end of my 6 month HSM. I gotta say, that blogging does not come naturally to me. So here we go… I have had some amazing experiences since my HSM journey began. The truth for me is that i have not drank excessively for 12 months on Australia Day. That was the day i decided to do things differently. Over christmas and new year, the alcohol consumption increased significantly around me. Family, friends and work colleagues all indulged. But all do so in many different ways. The social dynamic around each situation is different, with things such as peer pressure, love and friendship tied up with the drinking experience. For me i just loved watching it all unfold. And how they dealt with my choice to go without. Some supportive, some disgusted, some wishing they had the balls to do [...]