Welcome to Proper Mental episode 26!
My guest this week is Jazmin Seddon from The Happy Chilly Dippers!
Jazmin Seddon is the founding member of The Happy Chilly Dippers, a community of cold-water enthusiasts who are supporting wellbeing by embracing nature.
The community meet each day at various Wirral beaches to come together, connect with each other and embrace the water. They have over 4000 members in their Facebook group and some of their organised dips attract hundreds of dippers.
The group was started by Jaz after she started regular cold-water dips to help her with some physical and mental health issues she was experiencing at the time and has continued to grow rapidly as more and more people are discovering the many benefits of cold-water therapy.
Jaz and I met up to chat about how the community came to be and where it’s going. We chat about the benefits of cold water dipping and how connection, community and coming together in nature can benefit all aspects of health and mental health in particular.
It’s a great story and Jaz has really created an incredible community that all help and support each other in ways she never imagined when she started out.
I enjoyed this conversation so much and it was a real pleasure to explore these topics with Jaz. I want Proper Mental to be a resource for mental health and cold water and community are to topics that keep coming up so it was fantastic to explore them further with someone who is making a real difference by bringing people together.
We recorded this in person, in glorious sunshine, on a hill overlooking the sea and I it was awesome to explore her ideas and hear first-hand where she plans to take this movement.
You can learn more about The Happy Chilly Dippers here:
(4) Happy Chilly Dippers 🌊 | Facebook or @happychillydippers on Instagram.
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Thanks for listening! Enjoy!