Dave Pearson

You know, the ocean's where I've always took my problems.

Like, you know, there was a day, you know, many years ago, my first daughter died and I went surfing.

And it wasn't just to get away from it.

It was just to try and clear my head.

And I actually paddled out and I sat in the ocean for about an hour and a half and did nothing and just sat there.

So I can't seem to do that as much anymore.

because when I sit there in the ocean on my own I think about other things and it's not you know it's not how I want it to be so yeah the the ocean just has always been my place of healing and um when that also becomes unfortunately as a source of my distress then it can be a bit tough as well you know when I first started having post-traumatic stress really bad what used to happen for some reason is you know my first daughter would come into my mind and it was um

It was strange.

It was very comforting to know that she was there in my mind.

And unfortunately, it was also a really bad day at the same time.

So I tried to turn that around.

And I would know when I woke up in the morning if I was going to have a bad day.

And then I would say, but I'll get to think about Tia today.

So it's going to be a good day.

And I worked it out like that.

And I just went, all right, it's going to be tough.

but try and take the positive out of it.

And I try to turn everything into some sort of positive.

And like I said, sometimes I have some really tough conversations and I know it's going to get me.

But the positive is I know someone else is also going to be a little bit comforted by it and they're going to be having a little bit better day tomorrow than I'm having.