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 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 [...]

You know how in movies they do that split screen thing where you see two characters playing out their individual lives, blissfully unaware of the other person in the screen next to them. Then as the music reaches a crescendo and the sequence ends, they meet and the two screens merge into one? I like [...]

This post looks at the second facet that we have grouped under the binge drinking motivator of ‘Relationships’ –  a person’s ability to communicate. Largely going hand in hand with confidence, a young person’s ability (or inability) to communicate their needs and wants is a large reason why someone would choose to drink to excess. [...]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The last few HSM posts have been all about how a person’s perceived external identity translates into dysfunctional drinking behaviour. Within that, I covered advertising, culture and role models. Now we move into one of the other two key contributing factors – relationships. Or more specifically, how a persons ability to attract, build and maintain [...]

This blog continues on the series of posts that explores how our sense of external identity translates into dysfunctional drinking behaviour. It shows how our behaviours (including drinking) are replicated through an individual’s networks and subcultures via role modeling. Finally, how a young person can now use social media to both choose and become the role models [...]

Last weekend something amazing happened. I returned to my hometown of Caloundra to spend some time recovering and ‘slowing down’, as one invariably does from the time they hit that Caloundra turnoff, to the time they return on the way home. (For those that are yet to experience the slow-mo-ness of Caloundra, I guess you [...]

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 bearing [...]

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 bearing [...]

Anyone who has seen the film Into The Wild will be able to recall one particular scene towards the end the movie, very well. It goes as such; the camera opens with the main character (Christopher McCandless) lying on the floor of his soiled trailer. After 2 years of living a life of solitude ‘in [...]