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Thank you , I am swimming my way back from depression , the water washes away the pain, thank you for your support through your video

I'm not religious, but sea has always felt like a baptism to me. It washed away the dust and dirt on my soul as much as on my skin.

Katie supports Mike as much as Mike supports Katie. And the ocean supports them both. Beautiful.

Crying with gratitude as I watch this. Thank you Katie and friends. I've been in the sea now since April. I started for my mental health. It was literally sink or swim. Blessed and happier than I have ever been.

Thank you so much Katie , i work in aviation and am 60 yoa. Late last year, i started to feel under the weather, work was stressful, i did not get on with my manager, and so on, my home life was suffering too. Earlier this year i was rushed to hospital from work after feinting, with dangerously high blood pressure. The long and the short of it, i was suffering with stress and anxiety attacks, and now i know with myoclonic jerking as well!! this led me to re-assess my life , my goals. I went back to riding my mountain bike up on the South Downs, i am now taking up sea swimming on the weekends. This i believe will save my mind and my life. Take acre all, we only have one of us, one world, take note of the small things. Love to all.

On my darkest days I find all I want to do it get in the sea. I’m just starting and not really swimming much yet, but just getting into the water is working wonders. It’s so simple and yet not easy at all. I never thought about it bringing back my confidence, but I think, perhaps, like this lady, that’s something I’ve lost. I also love the idea of the sea connecting us all. I swim alone but like to think there is a someone else in the water out there at the same time too and we’re somehow swimming together.

We forget in our business the importance of engaging meaningfully with the natural world around us, but that engagement keeps us grounded and healthy. We become part of the bigger picture and expand the smallness inside us. Thank you for that caring recovery story. ☺️

I never knew how to explain my need for open water swimming, I knew it healed my body and soul. This is so beautiful thank you for letting me know I am not alone.

Stunning, my Grandmother took me to a bay that her grandmother swam in, I would have been three I crawled along the shallows for hours, I spent weeks in summer in the water swimming into my grandmothers arms as she walked deeper and further away until one day I was surfing in the biggest waves the coast and little bay had seen, watched from the cliff car park by my grandmother. I walked out of the water one day and never surfed again, I took my kids to the same bay and walked further away from them as they swam towards me, I was so proud, I pushed them into their first waves and bought their first boards. I was standing looking out to sea in June tears pouring down my face thinking of her, she gave me such a gift, nothing comes close to being in the sea, on it, in it, or under it, I have torn myself away to pursue useless things and knew I was doing it, responsibility, I am almost at the point of early retirement and I am going to swim more and more and I hope I can walk further and deeper from my grandchildren in the same bay.

I have suffered from nightmarish PTSD. I recently had to move from the U.S. over to The U.S. Virginia Islands where I took up ocean swimming. Now my depression has decreased and my sleeping has improved. I am planning my first trip to Scotland where I know I'll want to attempt wild water swimming. It has been a revelation of sorts to have discovered such sobering peace and tranquility. This video is a very powerful mental and emotional uplift.

So beautiful! The sea heals me daily too. I find that the majority of open water swimmers swim for very deep reasons. Thanks for sharing and creating this.

This was sent to me by a friend. I have just started recently going swimming in the sea when the sun is rising and oh my god it is the best decision I've ever made for my mental health. I am addicted. I get that rush and then I just feel completely at peace in my body and mind. Thank you for this video. I got quite emotional watching this because it resonated with me so much. This lady is fantastic ❤️

I've just started swimming g in the ocean after many years of living next to it. Busy life with work etc. but when I'm driving home from work, I feel the urge to swim...so now I keep my costume and towel in the car...there's something 5hat happens in the water, beside the great anti inflammatory properties and minerals it gives...I feel realigned and able to cope with another week. It's now part of my life and I'm so thankful. Also I'm meeting regular swimmers who feel the same...a lovely human connection. This is amazing 🌊💙

Thanks for sharing your experience. My motto is "Swim first, ask questions later."

The opening 2 mins pretty much sums up my life now. Iv just started sea swimming to try help. Feeling good

To brave the sea and allow yourself to be at the mercy of everything it throws at you is simply other-worldly. I can’t think of anything comparable.

This is how I feel when I go open water swimming. Thank you for capturing this aspect of swimming in the beautiful open water.

Love this video. Being proud of oneself, rebuilding self confidence and self respect of our magnificent temple :our body ! Thank you for your testimony

I cried. The experience is similar to mine. I will be at the San Juan Condado Lagoon at 6:30 am A far cry from waking with a hangover. Thank you for expressing your feelings so well

Thank you for this great Video. Swimming in cold water is an unspeakable feeling except with his experience.Good luck

I had very similar symptoms. Turned out I had misdiagnosed Lyme disease. I have taken to wild swimming in the North Sea off Saltburn and my energy is restored. January, trunks, bliss. It grounds me and everyday is different. Ducking under big waves to get to the swell. Fantastic.

Profoundly beautiful and deeply meaningful. Thank you for sharing this remarkable window of humanity with the world, it touches all who have the great fortune to view it.

I love open water swimming! Where I live, this is a river. Thanks for sharing what is so close to the heart.

Beautiful women , inside and out . What a great video describing 90% of the population. Loved every minute of this thank you

I started swimming 2 years ago. I didn't know why I was doing it, but a month later I stopped drinking alcohol. I felt good about me. My grief from losing my father lifted. I live in south africa, so my pool only goes down to 5°C in winter. But I don't skip a day. Its the discipline of doing it. My heart rate goes down to average 47 bpm in winter because of the cold water. I love it, it has changed me, I feel strong mentally, and I don't ever get sick.

Thank you! Though these are only 8 minutes Katies story is a whole lifetime. And her life was obviously saved by the Sea and guarded by Mike. She is a beautiful woman!

So beautiful to watch absolute bliss the synchronicity of heaven and earth.

Such an inspiration, thankyou. I was born by the sea in South Devon,spending every summer holiday Sea swimming there..in the 60's. Many traumatic events later, many situations dictating that I lived in some really grim towns and city's. My Devonian grandparents long dead,I took early retirement..and ran to the Sea. I now live just 4mtrs above sea level and have several beaches nearby 🏖🦜💚🇯🇲🐠. My soul is recharge, I am ME!

Totally get this. Outdoor, cold water swimming is deeply powerful experience. I’ve not quite worked it all out yet but I’m enjoying the process.

SO beautiful ! made me cry ! . Swimming at battery was why i moved here 8 years ago . When i do it thats exactly the thing i say afterwards i just feel like "ME" again . Not me with hashimotos , eds, cfs and all the other labels . Not me who is overwelmed with whats going on in the world etc ,,, the sea pushes everything else out and im left temporarily "clean" . This is inspiring me to try it again . xxx Beccy

I did sea swimming today for 20 min- now i feel amazing..energized and that mental chatter is gone...just an amazing feeling... the water maybe 12- 13 degress...

Great film. Never swimm without a swimming buoy. Warm greetings from an ice swimmer. 🌸

Amazing story!!!! Thanks for the film....I am also swimming at the moment to survive and keeping the head up!!!! Love you

What an amazing film, the photography was beautiful and Katie explains her feelings so well .and I think this is something many people will relate to. Life takes over with everything we have to do, that sometimes it's good to take time out just for yourself and get back to who YOU are and replenish your soul xx

Tks for sharing this giant experience of thoughts and the deep contact with the nature of the sea. I personally feel being part of the Planet and its natural flow and I'm one of many lives that what I propose to be doing especially in the openwater.

Truly lovely people..and sea-swimming...so true.Bright Moments for you both🐝🌈

Wow! Thank you 🙏🏼 so inspiring. I heard a click inside me, something moved, something that felt rusted in time for so long. Thank you for your honesty

Thank you for this video. I am 51 and recovering from depression and low mood. I started swimming 3 months ago as part of my recovery. I thoroughly enjoy it. Already I can feel the difference in my mood. I am trying to be consistent. Thanks again

All my life I’ve loved swimming in the sea, then last year I just kept going from September onwards. I try & go most days. It’s true it makes you feel brave again. I like to swim alone because I can be peaceful. There’s just me & the birds. I’m a tidal swimmer so see it at all different times. When I swim at sunrise even though it’s freezing I can feel the sun on my face. It takes things back to basics and the elements. Beautiful.

thank you too, I am running away from my MS, thank you for your awesome video...

So glad to see she is doing better. Being out in nature can be so therapeutic on so many levels.

Wow, so much of this resonated so deeply. I am healing chronic fatigue syndrome and began with cold showers, in September I started sea swimming and it changed my life. I felt so alive, connected and grounded, I wasn’t this sick person I was part of something much bigger than me, it helped my healing. I’m going through a bit of a crash right now and haven’t made it to the water in 3 weeks, I’m craving it so deeply but I’m honouring my body needing rest. This film made me feel like I was there and brought back all those amazing feelings, thank you 🙏🏻

So lovely. Brave woman, wonderful inspirational story. Thank you for sharing! 💜

wow! so wonder-full !! thank you, and blessings for being a delight for all those that watch and feel and expand ⭐️

Thank you for sharing your deep emotions with us! Wish you a very happy and healthy life!

I live in Sydney Australia and we are very lucky to have many 50 metre oceans pools here which I do laps in every morning all year round. I've made so many friends, other swimmers who swim daily. I sometimes forget how lucky I am...…….

Beautiful well done, i started swimming in sea 8 months ago, best feeling ever and in rough water unbelievable. Not over my poor mental health challenge but sea better than any drug. Great video thanks.

Excellent motivational video, my Respects

Thank you for a beautiful movie. Every word so true. Just started ocean swimming this year, and it is such a release from stresses.

Wonderful video. I’ve been on a similar journey and cannot agree more with the message that swimming in the wild has amazing calming and healing properties. My days are better when they start with a swim. Good luck to you and thank you for sharing your inspiring story.

An absolutely wonderful film and story. Thank you.

Thankyou I love this, swimming in the cold sea at sun rise is a life changer and a profound healer. Thankyou for creating and sharing this film with us. We can heal ourselves with swimming in the cold sea and also breathing techniques have worked for me too. Beautiful imagery too, stunning!

Couldn't agree more to this. Indeed very relatable. We often underestimate, rather dismiss the healing powers of nature but it is there that our actual healing takes place. You do well to nature and nature gives you back in plenty.

Deepest thank you possible for this video. Thank you for showing me a new way. Moving out East this summer......next to the Ocean. I've never even seen the Ocean. But I'm gonna heal myself in it. Thank you!!!!!!! Thank you SO much!!!!!

Hope you're doing well Katie. Loving the beautiful sea and appreciating yourself.

Beautiful, invoked so many feelings . Thank you for making this and sharing this story . Affirms that in life we can lose ourself but we can find ourself again and meet ourself in a different way 💕

Brilliant please make more films like this. The outside elements are so important to mental health.

What a lovely depiction. I think the whole swimming experience does wonders for my physical and mental health and well-being. Having the wettie off now that it's warmer, I am connecting much more directly with the water. It’s hard to describe in words what it does. Energising and invigorating fit but aren’t enough. It’s like my whole body is being held and massaged by the water. I find the experience changes to some extent through the seasons, and depending on where I am at in myself.

Recently discovered the healing power of swimming in the sea 🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️ It has brought me back from the brink 🙏

This was so interesting and beautiful. I loved watching it and learning about the healing properties of the great sea.

beautiful documentary. I started winter swimming through lockdown. It is a beautiful experience. You feel connected- not just in nature but a part of it.

Epic film, this is the sort of story that needs to get out there and can make a difference to peoples lives. I started daily cold water swimming in my pool a few months ago to reduce inflammation from my gym work outs, which I was not recovering from so well anymore as I aged. The difference is massive to my recovery and overall feeling of health. All those nice things about achievement, mental clarity and peace are still possible even in a pool, if you can't get out to nature so often.

Beautiful mini documentary!!! Today was my first dip in 4 degrees water :-)

What a fantastic and beautiful film. Thank you.

A really great film and, more importantly, a lovely result

This is so so good. Thanks for the honesty and sharing. It will help so many people.

This was beautiful to watch, thank you. Since losing my Dad in September I have swum in the sea in Brighton most days, and feel like its lifted me from depression.

So much of this resonates with me. Great insight, openness and film doesn't say enough.

Thank you i’ve found my local open water lake swimming club - I hope my given up mind and body will find the get up go like you did to get myself in the car into a wet suit and into the lake… Long story but I was verbally attacked in my car which tipped me over the edge - its triggered a loss of self you mentioned -Lake opens on the 29th March after lock down - wish me luck- If you could do it !!! ....

Astonishing, beautiful video and an inspiration to so many people. I have always been a sea swimmer and will always be one. So happy that Katie was able to heal herself.

That made me cry, hope your feeling better now 🙏

Thank you for this, it motivated me to start swimming and it's making a huge difference to my life. Finally some outdoor exercise that I genuinely enjoy and I know it's going to help my anxiety too. Thank you!

After 3 years of daily swimming,dr sea taught me way beyond sport. Mentally,emotionally,physically and spiritually. Unbelievable experience. We are water ,life is water.... I feel like i am submerged in mother nature womb to heal and evolve. I add my therapy float as well by humming Aom while ears in water and repeat till the sound vibrate in your skull and feel the cells in your toes and body humming back.

i slowly feel like i'm starting to come back to myself through the water. i used to just dunk my head in, like a baptism, and i'd always love the cold shock because it'd feel like all of the tenseness from my chest just vanishes. tenseness i sometimes didn't even recognize was there. i remember an intense urge to start swimming once the sunny weather rolled in. i kept trying to deny it, but it always met me in my dreams. after countless days of isolating myself in my room, i finally got the courage and biked down to my local lake. despite fearlessly bombing a hill with my bike to get there, i was almost paralyzed with fear from entering. i sat before the lake, on the verge of a panic attack, but i slowly made my way into the water. it forgave me. after my last session, i was looking at my pack laying on my overturned bike, a sight i had not seen in a year. i took it as a sign my inner strength was finally returning to me. i am in love with the water.

A beautiful piece of film and story telling.

This was a beautiful story made me very emotional, like I wanted to swim with you! Thank you for sharing. ❤️🍥🌊🏊‍♀️❤️

What a brilliant film, so inspiring.

I do swiming meany years I was very depressed and start swiming and I m back to my self 6 months happy is amaizing feeling the same flow with the nature is buetufull feeling. Ocean is powerfull😍❤️🌊

Never ceases to amaze that we can find ourselves by returning to whence we came.

Amazing, so glad you have healed through nature! It seems scary to be surrounded by wild water and I wonder how you breathe. This is a pastime I would love to take up but worry about my body tbh.

I am so HAPPY for you.. I go into the sea every day s for 20 minutes and suffered Anxiety and this has given me a knew life... Please could you get more videos on Cold water therapy.. Tommy

Beautiful! Breathtaking! Inspiring! Thank you!

Great job with this film and thanks for sharing. Our swimmers would agree that there's nothing quite like swimming in the open. Just be safe and never swim alone! We'll be posting a review on our blog in the next couple of weeks. Thanks again for sharing!

Very touching and inspirational. Thank you.

Beautiful film. Can't beat a bit of ocean healing. :)

Ahhh this is beautiful. I have recently started wild swimming in local lochs and I love it. Already I am getting what Kate means by the water calling her.

We're definitely made up of the same elements. It's wonderful to hear that you are marrying what's inside with the natural forces inside. We need it for sure. I was an drug addict and alcoholic as was my drear late twin and nature/walking/swimming brought us back to health similarly as the light permeated and eventually dissolved much of the darkness. Well done Katie. Great film Jonathan. Mark

Magnifique ,et tellement d émotions ., j'avoue avoir , comme beaucoup sans doutes , eu la larmes à l œil .... tout le monde a eu des bas dans la vie. , certains s'en sortent facilement, beaucoup y sombrent ... belle philosophie de la vie en armonie avec la mer originelle ! Je pense que il n'y a pas de hasard et que c'était écrit qu'elle devait rencontrer cet homme ... keep free swimming

Great film...beautifully conveys what so many seas swimmers think and feel.

Amazing film! Katie is awesome!

Thank you for sharing. It became part of my healing path as well.

Wonderful! Real strength how you face the natural world bravely, not through a comfy filter of civilization where the weak can appear strong but by getting in direct contact by yourself. Well done!

Beautiful film. Really powerful and emotional.

Thank you so much for this video. Nothing is better than the sea ❤️

I can relate. I suffer from C-ptsd. Water is a great healer

Wonderful....wonderful woman. Keep on keeping on. God bless you.

Wonderful story (I too love swimming in the ocean) ❤

Oh God this resonated

Mike you legend 🙌