A couple of weeks ago, I stepped into the sea holding my son.
He hadn’t slept properly in days. Neither had we. The kind of tired that makes your bones ache. The kind that makes you wonder if even love has a delay.
So we walked to the beach. I held him to my chest. Waded in. Waist deep. Salt in the air.
Something shifted.
This week’s Voice for the Blue is a personal one. It starts with burnout, and ends with stillness. Somewhere in between, it asks a simple question:
What if the ocean is already healing us and we’re only just starting to listen?
There’s a growing body of research called blue health. It looks at how being near water improves mental health, sleep, stress, even immune function.
Some of the most mind-blowing findings go deeper than that.
Off the coast of Hawaii, scientists discovered a compound in red algae that blocks HIV. In Norwegian waters, researchers are harvesting bacteria from the seafloor to develop antibiotics strong enough to fight the superbugs modern medicine can’t touch.
The ocean isn’t just calming. It’s chemically potent.
Yet most of us only ever think about protecting the sea for the future. For biodiversity. For our children. For climate.
This episode is about the present.
About the quiet power of water, not as a metaphor, but as medicine. About how grief and joy both find room to breathe by the shore.
If you’re running on empty this week… find water. A lake, a river, the bath, the rain. Whatever’s closest.
Be still.
See what shifts.
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