Saltwater Therapy: How surfing and the ocean has helped me manage a stage four cancer diagnosis.
Description
Tim is a surfer. He’s also an award-winning Australian journalist and best-selling author-storyteller about surfing history and culture. His latest book “Patting The Shark” candidly shares his journey through a stage 4 cancer diagnosis.
Session Outline
Tim shares his journey and how surfing and the ocean, and his MEDS mantra, can help anyone manage a chronic illness or just maintain robust physical and mental health.
We look forward to having him back at the OHA Forum to hear about his experience of “Saltwater Therapy”.
Tim Baker
Writer, Surfer, Health Justice Advocate
Tim Baker is an award-winning and best-selling author, journalist and storyteller specialising in surfing history and culture. His latest book Patting The Shark (Penguin, 2022) documents his nine-year journey managing a metastatic prostate cancer diagnosis. Tim wrote Patting The Shark as part of a creative writing PhD scholarship from Griffith University. He is a former editor of Tracks, Surfing Life and Slow Living magazines, and a two-time winner of the Surfing Australia Hall of Fame Culture Award. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Financial Review, the Sunday Age, the Bulletin, Inside Sport, GQ, Text Journal as well as surfing magazines around the world.