With the wrong advice or without taking the right steps to learn the essential (easy!) skills you need, your fear can easily be made worse, and you can find yourself further back than when you started.
As you’ve most likely discovered, the things you have already tried just don’t work and this is why:
In fact, so many of my clients have told me how the other things they tried just made them feel worse, their feelings of shame and embarrassment increased, their confidence and feelings of self-belief plummeted, and they just couldn’t face trying again. Instead, they resigned themselves to missing out forever.
“An incident in a pool when I was 6 years old had left me with a fear of water, if I couldn’t touch the bottom of the pool or sea…my body would tense up, my breathing would become shorter, I’d feel out of control and I’d be frantically looking for a way to the shore or the side of the pool, hoping no one would sense my panic – the feeling was awful, frightening. I tried to overcome it but my embarrassment meant I just started to avoid the water unless I could stay in the shallow end – I hadn’t been in water for over 5 years until my session with Sarah.
From the start, Sarah had told me it was understandable, natural and OK for me to have the fear, she explained I was going to learn to trust the water – I did have tears at the start of my session, I’d got very anxious that I wouldn’t be able to do it, but that first time I went underwater and breathed properly was amazing, it felt natural, my body wasn’t tense and I felt no panic.
The opportunity to practise this with Sarah to guide and encourage me was exactly what I needed to overcome my fear. It’s taken me 52 years to do this but now I have, I am now learning to learn to swim properly with Sarah and to make up for lost water time!”
Chrissy can now swim front crawl with her head in the water in comfort and loves open water swimming in lakes and the sea! Brilliant!
I’m a swimming coach specialising in working with adults who have a fear of water, with 8 years of experience helping hundreds of clients to build confidence and achieve life-changing results. I’m passionate about helping as many people as possible overcome their fears and learn to love the water. I can guarantee that, whilst it may feel like an impossible problem to solve it’s perfectly possible for anyone to overcome a water phobia even if they’ve tried many times without success.
Unlike other swimming teachers, I understand exactly why people are afraid and exactly how to help anyone quickly and easily move from panic to peace in the water – every single one of my water phobia clients has felt much more comfortable in the water after just one pool session – and they’ve loved every minute!
As well as over 8 years coaching experience, I am a Level 2 Swimming Teacher, level 2 Open Water Coach and Level 2 Total Immersion Swimming Coach.
“I was born in the 70s and my parents were non-swimmers. I had the standard swimming lessons at school and learned to swim (badly) and to have a terrible fear of water, by about 11 years old.
I have spent all my adult life avoiding the water and/or being terrified when I was in it. I have two teenage boys and a husband who are all competent swimmers and comfortable with all water-based activities that I could never participate fully in. The prospect of a family kayaking holiday finally prompted me to see if there were any adult swimming lessons available and fortunately, I found Sarah and Swimmingly!
Arriving for my first lesson was hard and even talking about my fear of the water made me cry. I started my lessons not really believing that I would be able to conquer my fears. Sarah was so patient, kind and understanding from the outset and I always felt supported and not pressured. The techniques that she uses and the skills that she has are remarkable.
The progress I have made, from not being able to put my face in the water and fearing getting splashed or ducked under, to being able to swim underwater confidently, is a startling change. My goal, when I started my lessons, was to be able to jump into the water…and here we are – I did it!
This is truly life-changing stuff and if I can do it, anyone can.”
Rebecca can now swim front crawl with her head in the water with absolute comfort and is loving joining in with all her family watersport adventures! Amazing achievement! 👏🏻👏🏻
At the moment you’re probably blaming yourself for your fear, beating yourself up and wondering why you can’t do something everyone else seems to find so easy.
Please know that you’re not alone – it’s not just you! A fear of water is experienced by one in four of us – millions of people of all ages and backgrounds, and despite what you might believe, there’s no shame in being wary of the water, in fact it is a natural, normal response designed to keep us safe in what can be a hostile environment – it’s not weak or silly and is never your fault!
The truth is that with the right teaching and understanding, it is absolutely possible for ANYONE to overcome their fears (yes even you!) and it’s easier than you think.
Overcome your fears once and for all – in as little as one hour in the pool
(even if you’ve tried everything!)
A unique, gentle step-by-step approach, available through face-to-face lessons and as a self-paced online programme that is totally different from anything you have tried before – and it works!
Developed using the knowledge gained from eight years spent helping many hundreds of happy clients overcome their fears, our step-by-step programme offers the missing parts of the jigsaw, the crucial steps that other approaches miss, it’s a quick and easy solution and it works – 100% of the time.
Why you have a fear and why your fear of water is not your fault – even if you don’t believe me right now!
Your mindset is keeping you stuck in your fear but once you take a closer look and you understand why you have a fear you will start to see things very differently and you’ll see that there is a way forwards.
Everything else you have tried will have missed this step – and it’s crucial!
Your new understanding will enable you to see how your thinking affects you in the water; take a few minutes to make the easy changes to your story that will help transform your experience of the water and make anything possible.
Everything else you have tried will have missed this step – and it’s crucial too!
Now you have started to think about your fears in a new way, you’re ready to learn the essential easy little-known skill that will stop the panic in its tracks so you can stay in control, panic-free, safe and calm in the water.
Everything else you have tried will have missed this step – and guess what – it’s crucial as well!
Use your new-found understanding to quickly and easily master the simple practical skills that will stop the panic in its tracks. Learn exactly what to do, how to do it and why you need to do it.
Other solutions start here but they’ve missed the crucial skills you need to learn before you even think about getting in the water – so they just don’t work!
Now you know exactly how to stop the panic; learn how the water wants to help you and how it works to support you as you start to discover the true joy and peace it brings.
Other solutions just don’t do this!
Life-changing 1:1 lessons with Sarah, held in our lovely private pool studio, just you and me.
If you can’t get to us for lessons, we bring the lessons to you – let Sarah take you gently, step by step through everything you need to overcome your fear quickly and easily
Our new VIP option includes the self-paced programme plus access to an exclusive Facebook support group and weekly group support calls with Sarah to help skyrocket your progress.
You won't find support like this anywhere else!
Limited places - use the button contact Sarah to register your interest today
This course is aimed at adult swimmers so the minimum age is 18.
This course is suitable for people who can already swim (any stroke, anyhow) and are confident with their face in the water and in the deep end of a swimming pool. If you are not yet at this stage please get in touch with us to book some one-to-one lessons.
These sessions are about learning good technique, so we do not swim lots of lengths. This means that they shouldn’t be physically tiring. However, learning something new requires focus and concentration so sometimes people find them mentally tiring!
Please bring your swimming costume or trunks (close-fitting are better), swim cap, goggles, drink and a towel.
There is plenty of car parking at the school.
Unfortunately, refunds can’t be offered, but wherever possible we will try to accommodate you on a different course.
It often helps to talk through water phobia and confidence issues, so please get in touch with your details and I’ll call you back for a confidential chat about how we can help you conquer your fear of water, there’s no obligation.
We’d be very happy to help.
