Wednesday 31st January marked the end of our Wild & Free Dip a Day Campaign 2024, where together with some strong minded members of our Wild Tribe, we dipped a day for 31 days in the sea, lakes or an ice bath to help our own wellbeing, and at the same time to raise money for our 3 amazing charities, Pieta Samaritans and AWARE NI who will equally gain from our fundraising efforts.
Wild & Free will donate £5 for every single dip that took place where the person posted, and then all of our wider community have all been giving what they can to ensure that we can support these wonderful charities as much as possible.
We learned so much personally, as a community and as a busines through our challenge that we will take into 2024:
1: We can do hard things
2: Pain and Difficult feelings will pass
2: We can make new habits by making them non negotiables in our daily routines
3: The power of your tribe and community makes you unstoppable
4: Cold Water Immersion is like a surge of energy and dopamine that truly powers your day.
5: Cold Water immersion certainly kept sickness at bay for those who dipped daily, in a month when it was hard to avoid
6: Starting the day in nature, embracing the elements is like a mindfulness, grounding and cold water therapy session all rolled into one, so powerful - We may not keep dipping every day, but we will certainly try to dip most days, as the benefits are too significant not to.
7: Doing something for a purpose, a greater good needs to be there to keep the discipline up when the motivation is not there, which when we met Storm Isha and Jocelyn and the snow and ice, was needed, believe me.
If you would like to donate to our campaign no matter how small, you can do that via the link below as we will keep it open for one more week, and do look out for future sea swims and you perhaps you might even think about joining us for Dip a Day in 2025 🤗
https://lnkd.in/dHiThXi5