How The 'Soul Surfer' Dealt With Losing Her Left Arm | Phil Daru Podcast Ft. Bethany Hamilton — Transcript
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- 0:00when i lost my arm it was wild how much
- 0:03kind of peace i had over the situation
- 0:05like you know my world's flipped upside
- 0:07down my arm's gone i remember like
- 0:09waking up in the hospital and like
- 0:11looking down and it's like
- 0:12sinking in like i'm not the same person
- 0:15i have a different arm like
- 0:17who knows if i can surf like everything
- 0:20felt wrong
- 0:21but at the same time i was like okay
- 0:24like i was
- 0:24thankful to be alive i trusted that god
- 0:27had more for my life
- 0:29even though i didn't know what that
- 0:31exactly looked like
- 0:32um so yeah from there
- 0:36like god continued to be my peace and a
- 0:39lot of different situations and just
- 0:42dealing with
- 0:42life and the changes and um the comeback
- 0:46and
- 0:47and then now as an adult like i can't
- 0:50imagine my life
- 0:51any other way like especially in the
- 0:53world we're living in it's wild like
- 0:56i don't know you know if you don't have
- 0:58a hope
- 0:59beyond yourself i just feel like it
- 1:01could get really like
- 1:02dark and um just kind of hard
- 1:06to stay afloat you know what's funny is
- 1:09that i think that you know you having
- 1:11that
- 1:12background in surfing it gave you
- 1:13something to fight for
- 1:15a little bit more than the average
- 1:16person i think everybody should find
- 1:18something like that it doesn't have to
- 1:20be a sport even it just needs to be
- 1:22something that they're very passionate
- 1:24about i think that you were
- 1:25so passionate about you know you're
- 1:27surfing and
- 1:28being the best that you could be that it
- 1:31allowed you to overcome
- 1:32those odds you know it allows you to
- 1:34overcome those obstacles
- 1:36you know and that's something that
- 1:37everyone should actually thrive for or
- 1:41at least take from someone like yourself
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