Surfing Saved My Life is dedicated to telling the story of positive mental health practice. Its aims are to encourage, educate and empower people, helping them build their innate resilience through positive change and personal development.
“In the ocean of life, there will always be waves.
To find peace, learn how to surf them...”
my story
The Surfing Saved My Life story is about my lived experience with acute mental distress and chronic illness, sharing how surfing helped me keep it together when my life fell apart. My goal is to share what I’ve learned with others, to let them know:
You’re not alone.
There is a way forward.
Today more than ever, we need to create greater mutual understanding and have more real-life conversations that, while not easy, are needed for lasting change to happen.
And for lives to be saved.
the aims
ENCOURAGE
Overcome stigma by promoting informed conversations that encourage positive mental health practice and mutual support
EDUCATE
Provide the latest information and research to educate people who experience mental health distress, whether their own or that of others
empower
Empower people to develop and expand their innate resilience to better manage not only acute distress but life’s everyday stressors
helping hands
Much good work has been done in recent years to raise awareness of and reduce the stigma attached to mental health issues. Yet so many people in distress still struggle to put up a hand and say,
“I'm not OK right now.
I need help.”
At the same time, many people who really want to help instead...hold back. There is a clear need to help people develop the confidence and skills they need to extend a hand to someone in need and say,
“It’s OK to not be OK.”
the story yet TO COME...
Surfing Saved My Life is a Positive Change story.
The Positive Change approach has many applications to:
personal development
skills building
behaviour change and getting people working better together.
To find out more about it, to book me for speaking engagements or to hear about upcoming workshops and experiences, please feel free to get in contact.
