One of the biggest gifts the water offers is the space it creates. This space is unique in it’s ability to manifest connection. It has me thinking about all the invisible things that unite us.

It dawned on me that I had allowed my attitude to become knowledge, that I adopted it as a reality.

If overthinking is a silent assassin, comparison is the thief of joy.

What helps you and what detracts you from a consistent swim or dipping practice? It is amazing how much we share in our struggle.

Have a read and let me what you think :)

We shed our inhibitions and beliefs on the shore because getting in the water and feeling alive is a practice we now hold as more important

“…how we still laugh and play like children in an ocean where our wrinkles grow deeper…”

Sometimes when the walls you have built around you start to crack, you need to stare into what is on the other side and just let the water flood in.

How my open water swim practice has taught me lessons in setting boundaries and self compassion.

Winter Solstice and the role of Water.

Like me, you may worry and be overwhelmed by this all and feel paralysed at the thought of what you can do. I implore you to see this World Ocean Day is not just as a day of celebration, but also as a day of action and awareness.

Blue Mind theory sheds light on the profound impact that our natural environment, particularly water bodies, can have on our overall health and well-being…it is so much more though than the words that attempt to describe it here. It is a felt experience, a feeling most people know when they imagine, speak of or are near and on the water. It is "...something deeply connected, an ancient idea that is encoded in our neurological connections…in every culture, every spiritual tradition, every sacred text...refers to the emotional benefit of healthy water".

There are experiences that help you realise how much you have been underestimating the untapped potential and capability that lies within you. How your own fear can distort reality and sometimes keep you from experiences that fill your cup. How easily you can give in to a life that ‘could have been’. The RIP swim was one such event for me.

A guide to journaling for beginners sharing three common journaling techniques and tips.

Six tips if you are considering your first cold swim or dip

Five reason for you to start Cold Water Swimming or Dipping now.

I have been a swimmer most of my life, but when I say again, I mean I was finally ready for the water to teach me. To teach me how to be present, connected and remind me what it is like to feel again. Mining my experience through journaling has deepened, almost detailed the magic of this practice and helped solidify my learnings.

I reject the comfort I have accepted for so long. The discomfort of cold winter ocean water has been the antidote to the numbness of burn out.

Discover the benefits of cold water swimming

There was a big part of me that was also so curious, determined to experience this, determined to win over the incessant chatter my lizard brain was volunteering. Determined to wash off the last last two years of Covid-19 confinement and numbness, with an experience that would not only push me beyond my comfort zone, but would redefine the very way I could experience my body on this planet. To use all my senses and feel all my emotions.

I remember my swims there vividly, the wild winter ocean tamed just enough by the walls of the pool, the breathtakingly cold water giving me a new appreciation of what it feels like to be alive, the excitement and terror I felt as I immersed myself in dark unfamiliar waters as the sun rose, the incredible energy that stayed with me the whole day.  A place and a time that helped me find my own.

My endless pursuit of happiness kept me too busy and distracted to see what was always in front on me, simply available for me to choose.

We chase the magic. The moments and spaces in which we feel present, connected and at peace.