The Sam Bloom story of hope

The Sam Bloom story of hope 

I started writing this blog 8 years ago hoping that I may inspire others. I knew I wasn't alone out there with my feelings about coming out of an abusive relationship. I am a fighter, a survivor and so I love stories of survival, and of determination. 

Recently I watched the Netflix movie Penguin Bloom, based on the real life story of Sam Bloom, 

and her story that became a best-selling book – Penguin Bloom. 

This was a story of despair but also a story of hope, and of new beginnings. It all started when Sam and her family were on vacation in Thailand in 2013. They were the perfect family, Sam and her husband were childhood sweethearts, they had 3 boys they adored and together they were an active family. They surfed together, played ball together, and rode bikes together but everything changed on that vacation. 

Sam fell from a rickety balcony, and her world changed forever. Paralysed from the chest down, the active life she’d led before seemed lost, leaving her deeply depressed at the prospect of a life in a chair

But then something gave her hope in her darkest days, a tiny orphaned bird  that they named Penguin. She was a wobbly-headed magpie chick who’d tumbled out of her nest. Her boys had found her by the beach and when no veterinarian would take Penguin in, the boys convinced Sam to let them nurse her back to health. 

This little bird suddenly gave Sam a purpose, it drove her instincts as a nurse and mother to help bring the little bird back to health, and in doing so, it gave her the purpose of living again and the will to move forward with her own recovery.

In the book Sam speaks of what it was like to suddenly have her life pulled from her. 

"My husband Cam went away last year for a job. I was lying in bed and I looked at an old profile pic of myself on Facebook and just started sobbing. It was like looking at someone you love, but they’ve died. It was really full-on and I felt like I was losing it. I often used to think the real me died in Thailand. I was grieving – I still am.

I was so bored for the first year after the accident. Before, I was active every day, independent and doing mum things. Boredom became my worst enemy, but when Penguin came into our lives it became her and me every day. Suddenly, I had something to do. She was with me all the time and was really good company. We would sing and chat to each other. Penguin listened to all of my complaints and she never accidentally said anything thoughtless in response to me"

This tiny bird changed her and her family's life, it gave her the help to go on and she decided she wanted to live again, to accept this new world she now had to live in, who she was now and let go of who she used to be. 

She started by taking kayak lessons and soon her outlook on life began to change. She realized she could still do many of the things she had loved before. Not only that but in 2015 she got on the Australian ParaCanoe team, but lost out on the opportunity to go to the Olympics. She was devastated because she felt that was her purpose and goal, and thought what am I supposed to do now? But she didn't give up, still searching for something to give her purpose, she received a letter from Julian Wilson’s mum. (he’s the number three surfer in the world!). She told her to get back out there and try surfing again. 

She went on to take back up the sport she has always loved, surfing. She won two World Para Surfing Championships (2018/20), after first making the Australian Adaptive Surf Team in 2018. She competes in the ‘prone-assist’ category, itself a precise illustration of the teamwork required in her sport.

This is a story about hope, a story of never giving up, a story of change and accepting that change. We all go through changes in our lives, we lose loved ones, our jobs, our dreams sometimes. Some of us hit rock bottom and it feels like nothing will ever be the same and many times it won't but you must have the will to live, the will to survive, to do whatever it takes to get past it, move on, try again and we all have that inside of each and every one of us. 

So today my friends, I'm here to tell you if you're in that low place, if life has beaten you up and you think it's over, it's not. Just look around at the survivors out there, the Sam Blooms of the world, who face adversity and overcome it. You too can do that, we all have it in us, you just have to go deep to look for it, but trust me it's there as long as you don't give up, anything is possible my friends, anything. 

"Be the change you want to see"

"And just when the caterpillar thought his life over...he turned into a beautiful butterfly"

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