I broke.
23/03/11 • 3 Comments

I broke. I thought I could go through the three months of Hello Sunday Mornings without a drink but I couldn’t. It happened during my first couple of days in the US for a working holiday. I caught up with a couple of old friends I hadn’t seen for 12 months who took me out to my first taqueria and I buckled and had my first beer in over 2 months. It was incredible. I thought it would just be one, a single break, but it’s hard to stop at just one beer. Once the seal has been broken it was hard to turn down another beer a couple of nights later at a gig. And then I hit the music and interactive festival SXSW in Austin and my resolve had taken a complete thrashing, there was no denying that I was no longer doing a Hello Sunday Morning. What [...]

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My time for Hello Sunday Mornings
03/01/11 • 5 Comments

  I’ve been a big fan of Hello Sunday Mornings and Chris Raine for a while now. I tried out my own mini HSM in January last year where I took 6 weeks away from alcohol which was mostly motivated by seeing the effect that it had had on Chris. This experience had a big impact on me. Through taking the longest break away from alcohol since I was 18 I could better understand what effect it had on my life. I could see the type of person that I was when I was out with my friends remained largely the same whether or not I was drinking. I was still clumsy, still relatively confident and social and I would generally still wake up thinking “I can’t believe I did / said / ate that”. Back then I took a break from drinking because I wanted to see if I [...]

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