Diving Deeper into Self-Love, Sea-Love, and SurfSisterhood
December 20, 2022
Hosted by Sydney WIlliams
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If you've ever sat on the beach and felt the waves crashing into the shore, you have some sense of the power that the ocean contains. But have you ever fully engaged your senses in the ocean? For Natalie Small, founder of Groundswell Community Project, it was the full sensory immersion that helped her understand the healing power of Mother Ocean. Born and raised in North Carolina and later moving to Los Angeles, family vacations revolved around spending time on the water. Upon moving to LA with the ocean 45 minutes away, the absence of regular access to the water caught her attention. Lacking a community of women in the water, she learned how to surf from some water polo players and it sparked something deep inside her. After a short stint living in Argentina, she committed to a life on and in the water, and her life has never been the same since. Now a licensed Family & Marriage therapist, Natalie Small started to recognize the healing powers of Mother Ocean for herself and wanted to share this healing with others. Through Groundswell, she has brought community back into the healing journey and is now on the cutting-edge of sharing her love of surfing as a therapeutic modality. In this episode, we'll be chatting with Natalie about how she found her way to Mother Ocean, what inspired her to start Groundswell Surf Therapy, and how the community has helped thousands of women around the world find self-love, sea-love and sisterhood.
Wellness in the Wilderness
Tuesday at 1 PM Pacific Time on VoiceAmerica Empowerment Channel
Did you know that the average American spends 90% of their lives indoors? It's tragic and it's true - we have lost our connection to the wilderness from which we came, and it is impacting every aspect of the human experience. If you're ready to slow down and take a cue from nature to help you bring your best self to life, love, and work - welcome to Wellness in the Wilderness, we're glad you're here! Join Hiking My Feelings founder + CEO Sydney Williams and her guests as they explore how creativity, connection, and community are amplified by time spent outside. Through shared story and self-reflection, we can gain tremendous insights and inspiration from our journey on the Trail of Life. Tune in each Tuesday at 1pm PT to feel a little less alone in this world, and understand how the outer wilderness influences our inner wilderness to support optimal wellness of the mind, body, and spirit.
Sydney WIlliams
When former collegiate athlete and competitive skydiver, Sydney Williams, unexpectedly found herself on the receiving end of a Type 2 diabetes diagnosis while grappling with unresolved trauma from a decades-old sexual assault, she set out on a mission: turn her pain into power. Two hikes across Catalina Island and 80 miles later, she founded Hiking My Feelings to help others tap into the mind-body connection and healing power of nature that helped kick her self-limiting beliefs and disease into remission. Over the years, she’s been featured on the SXSW stage, as well as in Health Magazine, Diabetic Living Magazine, Psychology Today, US News & World Report, and numerous other publications. Today, she is the author of Hiking My Feelings: Stepping into the Healing Power of Nature, host of Wellness in the Wilderness on the VoiceAmerica Empowerment channel, a certified Wilderness First Responder, instructor at the Desert Institute at Joshua Tree National Park, and travels across the country empowering others to summit their personal mountains on their way to becoming Well Beings.
Episode Directory
February 2023
January 2023
December 2022
- 12/27/2022: Finding Wellness in the Wilderness on the Trans-Catalina Trail Listen Now
- 12/20/2022: Diving Deeper into Self-Love, Sea-Love, and SurfSisterhood Listen Now
- 12/13/2022: Making History While Returning to Self with Arlette Laan Listen Now
- 12/6/2022: When a "Phase" Turns into a Career + Community with Anna Levesque Listen Now
