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, these approaches 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 in comfort and loves open water swimming in lakes and the sea! Brilliant!
I’m a swimming coach and teacher specialising in working with adults who have a water phobia or fear of the water, helping them to change their lives by learning to be calm and happy in the water instead of stressed and frightened.
Unlike other swimming teachers, I understand exactly why people are afraid, why many have tried and failed to overcome their fears, and exactly how to help anyone quickly and easily find their peace and freedom in the water.
I am the creator of From Panic to Peace – the 5 step programme that will help anyone easily overcome their fear of water and that has 100% success in helping someone learn to feel comfortable in the water often in just one quick pool session – even those who have tried everything and given up hope!
As well as over 8 years coaching experience, I am a qualified Swimming Teacher, Open Water Coach and specialist Total Immersion Swimming Coach.
I love helping people overcome their fears, there is nothing that is more rewarding or thrilling for me than to see the joy on someone’s face as they achieve peace in the water often when they have spent years and years believing that it was impossible for them.
It’s like a miracle every time and I want you to experience your own miracle too.
So, if you’re ready to finally overcome your fears once and for all, I’m with you every step of the way.
“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.”
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 be able 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.
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 thought-processes 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 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!
Finally! The answer you have been looking for - overcome your fears and learn to love the water with our life-changing 1:1 lessons held in our lovely private pool studio.
Water Confidence Breakthrough Self-paced Online Programme - we bring the lessons to you – let Sarah take you step by step through everything you need to overcome your fears and find your freedom in the water
The self-paced programme plus access to an exclusive Facebook support group and 6-months of weekly group support calls with Sarah to help skyrocket your progress
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!
You CAN overcome your fear of water (even if you’ve already tried everything), you just need to go about it in the right way!
My insight-packed PDF will help you kick-start your journey to water confidence in just a few easy steps – and you don’t even have to go to the pool!
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.
