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Explorations, advice, and reflections on mental health, mental illness, and healing our minds through surfing, self-love, mindfulness and more.

Making Room for Myself: What I’ve Learned from 10 Months of Sobriety

December 13, 2022December 13, 2022 savvygoessurfingLeave a comment

What I've learned about accepting myself, sobriety as the beginning rather than the end, and why all I ever needed to do was make space for the person I am.

Posted in Explore, MindTagged #mentalhealth, #sobriety, #thoughts, #wellness

Becoming More of Yourself

August 19, 2022August 19, 2022 savvygoessurfingLeave a comment

Just a little essay on how when we force ourselves to change and grow is when we stop ourselves from changing. How do we embrace change with less fear and more grace?

Posted in Explore, MindTagged #change, #mentalhealth, #thoughts

Becoming the Tree – Looking Inward Instead of Out

June 27, 2022June 27, 2022 savvygoessurfingLeave a comment

How can we re-write the stories of ourselves by looking into our own selves rather than frantically searching for something outside of us?

Posted in Explore, MindTagged #mentalhealth, #thoughts

Look Where YOU Want to Go

February 22, 2022February 22, 2022 savvygoessurfingLeave a comment

I thought I would kill it at snowboarding. I definitely did not. But I also remembered something I'd forgotten I already knew, and once I started living it everything else fell into place. Read about how in this new post. Image credit to @mkphotos808 on Instagram <3

Posted in Explore, Mind, SurfingTagged #gosurfing, #savvygoessurfing, #surfingjourney, #thoughts

Finding Your Right Fit

November 2, 2021November 2, 2021 savvygoessurfingLeave a comment

It's so easy for us to see when we are using the wrong board. It's so easy for us to see what needs to change or what we need to do differently in surfing, but in the rest of our lives we're equally quick to blame ourselves. What if you have always perfectly fit life all along, but you just needed to start believing it?

Posted in Explore, Mind, SurfingTagged #shortessay, #surfingjourney, #thoughts

An Argument for Mediocrity: Don’t “Do Your Best”, Just “Do”

April 21, 2021April 21, 2021 savvygoessurfingLeave a comment

It's taken me practically a year to write this post again. I wanted to write the perfect post. Then I realized I would never write anything thinking like that. Read about why you need to do, instead of doing your best.

Posted in Explore, MindTagged #beachbum, #change, #doyourbest, #inspiration, #mind, #surfing

I Don’t Know But I’ll Keep Trying To Learn

August 13, 2020August 13, 2020 savvygoessurfingLeave a comment

There is a lot I don't know right now...about how to help, what to do, and how to understand myself in this world. But there are a few things I do know. Here they are.

Posted in Explore, MindTagged #blacklivesmatter, #idontknow, #iknow, #ourworld, #thoughtfulthursday, #thoughts

9 Steps to Take Right Now to Make a Difference

July 2, 2020July 2, 2020 savvygoessurfingLeave a comment

2020 has presented us with new ways of thinking (which are not so new, new challenges (which have been around for a long time), and a powerful awareness of the need for our participation in the world's improvement.

Posted in Explore, MindTagged #blacklivesmatter, #growingtogether, #makeadifference, #mentalhealth

Radical Oppositions and Centering in the Sea

May 21, 2020May 19, 2020 savvygoessurfingLeave a comment

In this essay, I explore the meaning of right and wrong, why self-improvement made me so angry at the start of quarantine, and how the ocean operates as my center through it all.

Posted in Explore, MindTagged #compassion, #covid, #quarantine, #thoughtfulthursday, #thoughts

Quarantine, Fear, and Protecting our Sanity in the Time of Covid-19

March 25, 2020March 25, 2020 savvygoessurfing2 Comments

How do we keep ourselves from dissolving into hopelessness, fear, depression, and loss in this unprecedentedly terrifying time?

Posted in Explore, MindTagged #coronavirus, #loveeachother, #mentalhealth, #metalstraw, #wellnesswednesday, Wellness

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