HIMBO! Sex, Drugs, Celebrity & Other Miracles.
Shaun’s book debut is a unique life love letter from a man who has learned to live authentically, and without apology. A time capsule of sparkling but gritty modern life, HIMBO! Sex, Drugs, Celebrity & Other Miracles is a scrapbook memoir comprised of past and new writings, essays, blog posts, articles, and moments in time from Shaun’s intimate and insightful interviews with some of the world’s most famous celebrities.
From his “It Gets Better” childhood in rural Ontario growing up with an alcoholic and homophobic father to his rise to quarterback host of the world’s first LGBT radio station, Shaun’s unique, funny, heartfelt and often wild journey of living life hard, joyfully and to the fullest will inspire you to do the same with your own life, no matter what happened to you in the past. In sharing his often un-pretty journey to success, Shaun will help you know your own possibilities.
We follow our instincts, we seek to feel good, we do the best we can with what we have, and then we hate ourselves anyway. We observe the great sum total of all that which we are with such disgust.
We hold back sharing our full selves with each other because what if?
We deny our truths, we put on airs and we offer up varying smaller versions of ourselves instead, selves we feel those around us would prefer to see. We shrink. We avoid the subjects we fear others will shun us for bringing up, no matter how important they are to us. We don’t voice our questions, even though we know we can’t be the only one asking them. We loathe others, too, and then we loathe ourselves for being just like them.
This self-smothering disempowerment can’t keep being our collective default. I love the idea of breaking the cycle.
Now, as I share here more than I ever have before, I have no idea what to expect.
Some things haven’t changed. I’m still about my truth – good, bad and ugly.
Only now I present my tangled story with an authentic pride the likes of which I’ve never felt before. It’s different, stepping out on the edge this time.
This time I’m doing it having created a wonderful life that is beyond my fondest dreams. Despite starting out a recipe for disaster, despite what came my way and where I found myself, despite mistakes and fuck ups aplenty, and despite the people who came and went as I sorted it all out.
Because of myself, despite myself.
The guy who spent too much of life feeling like a loser won. I’m stupidly content and peaceful; I’m a Hollywood ending.
If I can achieve it, you can.
I want us all to accept and love ourselves – and each other – for who we are. But that means everyone putting all their cards on the table, in order to have the kind conversation that helps eradicate the self-hate, judgment and stigma that continues to cost so much.
So I’ll go first.
Everyone has secrets to share.
Here are mine.
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