Great to be joined this week by Lydia, Max and Beth, founders of Wild Swimming Cornwall. After each of their own struggles with varying mental health issues, friends Lydia, Max and Beth decided to spread their love of the ocean and found Wild Swimming Cornwall.

It is a community with the aim of encouraging more people to take part in wild swimming and experience its benefits. As we discussed, those benefits are massive.

On top of the physical exercise, the mental benefits are numerous, but the biggest to me is how much it improves stress response and expands your comfort zone, something so valuable to people suffering with anxiety.

Something I also advocate and chat about a lot is the importance of having a passion in life, something you can invest even just a couple of hours a week, something to lose yourself in. Many are now f ...