Hello, I’m Pippa, the founder of Sea Soul Blessings.
The sea has brought me many unexpected gifts… and Sea Soul Blessings has been the most magical and surprising of all.
I worked as a coach and retreat facilitator at my social enterprise, Story of Mum, for many years. And trained as a Blue Health Coach, amongst other things…
I’ve also run media development agencies and worked as a script editor on feature films and TV series for many more.
All of these roles – along with my passion for sea swimming and nature – are the inspiration for everything I share at Sea Soul Blessings.
Those roles have given me the perfect combination of skills to create beautifully written tools that take my experience of the sea, and of compassionate coaching – providing gentle support to rewrite the unhelpful stories we tell ourselves – and transform this into in simple and encouraging resources that are now used worldwide.
Sea Soul Blessings Cards deepen your connection to nature, and offer mindful coaching in a box. Our monthly subscription, The Sea Circle, sprinkles regular ocean inspiration through your mailbox and inbox. And when you need more ocean mantras and spiritual nature connection in your life, you can get our Sea Soul Journeys Oracle Cards – and go deeper with rituals and mindful practices in the Sea Soul Journal.
Why?
Modern life is challenging. It’s hard to save yourself, let alone the planet and each other, when you feel overwhelmed, anxious and hopeless. I believe that to live joyfully, we need the natural world – and right now, the natural world needs us.
I’ve learnt that simple activities that connect nature, mindfulness and self-compassion can be deeply transformative – improving our resilience and wellbeing, guiding us towards what really matters in our lives – and helping us to transform not just our own lives, but the world around us.
We know that we are stronger together – when we connect deeply to the planet on which we live – and when our individual and communal transformation is encouraged by our community. So at Sea Soul Blessings, I create compassionate resources rooted in nature, that help simplify our lives and encourage gentle change.
Our vision
Through everything we do at Sea Soul Blessings, we want to empower you with beautiful engaging resources and compassionate community. To provide you with hope, space to grow, peace of mind, clarity, resilience, a sense of belonging and a deeper connection to yourself and the world around you.
We want to increase our individual and global capacity to make positive change – especially in relation to the environmental crisis, and the all the other issues that intersect with that. We want our work to generate funds to invest in projects that protect and preserve the natural world.
We’re starting by investing 10% of sales, and working towards a financial model that will ultimately allow us to invest 50% of net profits into environmental projects.
Sea Soul Blessings – the journey from sea to shop
The Sea Soul Blessings magic really came to life when I started sea swimming some years back.
Sea swimming brought me so many gifts. There was the joyful community that encouraged me to start sea swimming, and inspired me to keep going through the winter. All that time I got to spend immersed in Cornwall’s natural beauty every day, seabirds swooping overhead, light sparkling on the waves, seals a little too close for comfort. The regular exercise and healing power of cold water – soothing my aching bones and joints, and relieving my physical pain.
But more surprisingly, I discovered that the sea could also soothe my mind. Time in and around the water helped me to calm anxiety, clear difficult emotions, and gain greater faith in myself. I became curious about the scientific research into the benefits of Blue Mind: the power of time in and around the water to make us feel happier, calmer and more creative.
My swim became my self-compassion practice. Daily life-changing proof that I was worthy of precious space to tend to my needs – every single day. In the sea, I could connect to my intuition, to a source much greater than myself – and learn to ask for help.
Each visit to the sea brought a fresh gift, a message or guidance of some sort. The sea’s wisdom shared with me. I would leave the water a different person: braver, stronger, more focused, more in tune with myself and the world around me.
One day, as I swam, the idea of Sea Soul Blessings arrived on the tide, as simple and powerful as the sea itself. I could create tools that would encourage others to make space in their day to clear their minds, to reflect – and practice speaking more kindly to themselves, to connect to their intuition and the sea.
And having worked for years as a coach, I knew just how beneficial simple tools like these could be as part of a daily self-care practice. How a daily ritual can powerfully ground us amongst the busy-ness, allowing us to shift negative thought patterns and start afresh. And the very first Sea Soul Blessings cards and book were born!
Of course, swimming through plastic and pollution on a regular basis brought another kind of awakening: a desire to work towards building a sustainable business that gave back to the ocean that inspired it.
From those early days, Sea Soul Blessings products and services expanded year by year – into a monthly ocean subscription, meaningful gift ideas, individual coaching and retreats, my first ever book, and much more.
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