“How do you go from suffering a ‘near-drowning trauma’ to becoming an open-water swimmer?” This is a question that I’m often asked when happily telling people that I only started open-water swimming in lakes and long-distance swimming in the summer of 2020, AFTER surviving THE waves. My new-found passion for swimming might seem even more curious to outsiders when I add that, after living through the catastrophic tsunami in Thailand on December 26th, 2004, I suffered from the consequences of this traumatic experience and could not even swim in indoor swimming pools. In this authentic and exciting story, I recount my traumatisation, its mental and physical effects, the positive changes brought about by trauma therapy with EMDR and my post-traumatic growth after a visit to Thailand in 2019! This is a positive, compelling book that encourages you to face your fears and work on overcoming them! How can you heal from trauma and achieve post-traumatic growth? Can swimming in general help traumatised people to heal both mentally & physically?weiterlesen