A Personal Story About Fear, Freedom and Giving Back
For as long as I can remember, I’ve felt a deep and magnetic pull toward the ocean. The sight of it always brought me peace, the rhythm of the waves calmed something ancient inside me, and I felt at home near its endless horizon as if some part of me belonged there, or had even come from there.
And yet, once I stepped into the water, something changed. The mystery below the surface stirred up a quiet unease. I didn’t like not being able to see the bottom. In swimming pools, too, I felt nervous if my feet couldn’t touch the tiles. I vividly imagined sea creatures lurking beneath the drains, waiting just out of sight. When I floated on my back, looking up at the ceiling, I couldn’t relax, because what if something swam up behind me while I wasn’t looking? That vulnerability made my imagination run wild.
Still, it wasn’t the sea itself I feared. It was the unknown within it, and perhaps the unknown within myself.
We Are Born From Water
Before we learn to walk, we float. Before we speak, we move in waves. In the womb, we are held by water, wrapped in warmth and rhythm. It is our first ocean and our first home. That memory, I believe, lives deep in our cells. Perhaps that’s why the ocean has always felt sacred to me, not only as a physical force of nature, but as a living reminder of origin.
As I began to return to myself through healing, inner work, and deeper embodiment, I started to experience water not as something to fear, but as a teacher. It began to reflect everything I was learning to reclaim in myself: softness, stillness, depth, emotional flow, and the power of surrender. The water that once made me hesitant was now inviting me in gently, patiently, as if it had always been waitin
Guided By The Sea Turtle
For most of my life, I moved through the world like a salmon swimming upstream, pushing against the current, driven by willpower, determination, and the belief that hard work was the only way forward. I didn’t “go with the flow.” I resisted it. I fought to carve my own path, even when it exhausted me. For years, that was my way of surviving. It was how I knew to succeed.
But at some point, I realized that this way of being no longer served me. I started longing for a different rhythm, not one of constant resistance, but one of alignment. That’s when the sea turtle appeared. She didn’t push. She didn’t fight. She simply moved with grace and ease through her element, carried by the water instead of battling it. The contrast couldn’t have been more clear.
I began to use her image intentionally, as a symbol and reminder of who I was becoming. The sea turtle helped me shift from striving to trusting, from urgency to timing, from forcing to flowing. On land, she may seem slow and deliberate. But in water, she glides. And that’s what I was learning to do, to glide in my own element, to stop rushing, and to let life move with me, not against me.
The Birth Of Sea Of Love
Sea of Love wasn’t born from a business idea or a marketing plan. It rose from a feeling, a knowing, a longing to give back. Over the years, as my work expanded and more abundance came into my life through speaking, performing, coaching, and creating, I felt the urge to let that abundance ripple beyond me. I wanted to honor the source that had carried me through so many waves of change. That source was water. That source was the ocean.
Sea of Love became my way of giving back. A personal foundation, a tribute, a quiet thank you.
What I Support
Sea of Love is not a corporation. It is not a large-scale charity. It is intimate and intentional. A portion of the income I receive from my talks, shows, programs and products is donated to ocean-focused initiatives that:
- 🐬 Protect dolphins and marine life
- 🐚 Restore coral reefs
- 🌊 Clean up oceans and waters around the world
I believe that healing and giving are not separate paths. They are one and the same. When we are moved by something, we act. When we receive deeply, we give naturally. That is the rhythm of the sea, and the rhythm I now follow.
Why The Ocean?
Because it has always called me. Because it awakened something inside me that I had forgotten. Because it reminds me of who I am, not just as a human being, but as part of something much older and wider than I can fully comprehend. The ocean mirrors my journey from fear into freedom, from contraction into trust, from control into surrender. And above all, it reminds me to listen, to the tides, to the silence, to the unseen forces that shape us from within.
Sea of Love is not just a foundation. It is a current I now choose to follow. A remembering. A soft revolution. A return to origin. And with every show I perform, every keynote I give, every product I launch, I offer a portion of that flow back to the water that first held me.
This is my offering. This is my love.
