Bethany Hamilton's Blog, page 4

Inside the Action: Surf Competitions

While the competition organizers do their best to take the surf forecasts into account for scheduling, the ocean is a constantly changing environment. The waves might be amazing when your heat starts and by the time you paddle out the lineup, they could be super bad. Anything can happen – the wind can pick up, the waves can get mushy, the set can slow down. You have to be ready to adapt.

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3 Steps to Overcome Fear

Getting back in the water, surfing again, becoming a mom, learning how to be a good and loving parent and wife are just a few. Fear is such a powerful emotion and it has the ability to completely stop us in our tracks. It totally hinders us from pursuing the good and beautiful things in life. While fear is completely natural, it’s our job not to let it have the final say in our decisions and...

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The Power of Addiction

I invited certified drug prevention specialist Ray Lozano to my Live Ohana Event to teach us about what addictive substances do to our brains. Ray has educated and entertained thousands of students at hundreds of schools across the country since 1986. While he has a background in stand up comedy, his experience working at the Teen Change Ministry Institute showed him how drugs and alcohol can...

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Using a Hard Work Ethic to Live Unstoppable

I’m so grateful that I had experiences early in my life that helped me develop this habit. Here are two things that impacted my work ethic and a few tips on how you can use hard work to live unstoppable too! I had a front-row seat to watch the way my parents worked as I grew up. We lived a very simple life and were not wealthy by any means. In fact, we were just barely getting by. Hawaii is one of...

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Introducing Our Baby Daughter!

She’s getting so much love from all of us and we are so very thankful to share life with her! “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.

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How to Change the World

This quote from Mother Theresa has been running through my mind so much recently. It’s very easy to feel overwhelmed whenever we scroll our social media feeds and hear the news. We live in a time where we are bombarded with so much chaos and information every time we pick up our devices. It often feels like an unending task to try and fix all the craziness in the world. However...

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Stop, Drop & Pray

My mom raised me in with the mentality that prayer and faith in God are crucial to every part of our lives. She shared this perspective on prayer, motherhood, and raising God-loving kids at one of my recent Ohana Live Events. It was awesome! “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.” Philippians 4:6...

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Stepping Into Motherhood

When Adam and I were first married, we had lots of plans for the first few years of marriage. We went on the Amazing Race and then soon after we started working on my Unstoppable documentary. Then we found out I was pregnant about six months later. It was a surprise to say the least! Adam and I were like, “wow, ok that really wasn’t what we were planning on”. I guess we had just expected to have...

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3 Ways to Fight for the Good

When you start to examine the world and see that there is beauty and light to enjoy and celebrate, you realize that there is also an alternative side. Ultimately all the bad things that we don’t like, that we disapprove of and that hurt us are coming from a darkness, sin or wrongdoing. We really have to fight for goodness and beauty to shine around us in the world and in our daily lives.

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Stop & Rest

I love that the Bible has so much to say about rest. Not only is rest helpful for our physical bodies, it’s major for our mental, emotional and spiritual health. To encourage you to carve some more life-giving and restful time into your routine, I want to share a couple of my favorite passages on rest. ​An Invitation to Rest Jesus invites his disciples to find a peaceful place and rest.

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