FLAME with Brad Hook
Surf Therapy and the Benefits of Nature-Based Healing
Cash Lambert literally wrote the book on surf therapy — two of them, in fact. The evidence base for what surfers always knew is growing fast: the ocean changes minds.
Cash's books — Surf Therapy: The Evidence-Based Science and Waves of Healing, on surfing's impact on children with autism — document a field coming of age: structured programmes using the ocean for physical, mental and emotional recovery, from veterans with PTSD to kids who found their first calm in whitewater.
Two surfers deep in conversation here: what the research actually shows, why the ocean's combination of nature, challenge and rhythm is so therapeutically potent, and how surf-therapy programmes work in practice. If you've ever come out of the water lighter than you went in, this explains why.
In this episode
- The growing evidence base for surf therapy
- Why ocean + challenge + rhythm heals
- Surfing's impact on children with autism
- Nature-based healing beyond the surfboard
- How structured surf-therapy programmes work
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