Thrill Of
The Chill
A water baby at heart, Jay has always enjoyed being in and close to water from an early age, in her late 20's she moved to Turkey and then Tel Aviv to be by the sea,
she loved swimming in the Dead Sea where the water temperature is a toasty 20-32c.
Sun-kissed the water there was warm, it wasn't until the lockdown in 2021 that Jay got interested in cold water swimming after watching a Russell Brand podcast with Wim Hof.
Jay now lives in picturesque Shropshire in the UK, feeling inspired she joined a couple of friends at a local outdoor lake for a wild swim and was hooked instantly, swimming there daily, sometimes twice, throughout the seasons, even on Christmas morning and New Year’s day festivities were started in the lake - what better way to celebrate, connected to nature and feeling vibrant.
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Swimming in skins ( a bathing costume no wetsuit, but sometimes a rash top and neoprene gloves) the water temperature was in lovely double digits in the summer, through to water as chilly as 3c last winter which is positively Baltic.
Most of the time Jay swims with her #1 swim-buddy, her mum, who took up wild swimming at the age of 71 years old - seeing how it made Jay feel so good she wanted to feel the same, she gave it a go and likewise, became equally hooked, proving its never too late to start a new challenge.
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Getting adults to understand the benefits of cold water swimming and how good it can make you feel physically and emotionally is one thing, but getting children to willingly take a cold dunk is a totally different matter, Wanting to encourage her then 6-year-old son into cold water and cold showers Jay looked online, she found lots of science and personal accounts but a lack of children’s storybooks about the power of the cold and so she decided to write one!.
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…well truth be known, Jay Credits her favourite lake with the words for the book, given to her while she was swimming …
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My Favourite
Place To Be
