[CAMERON LABAR] My name i Cameron and I like to come down to the Boise River to cold plunge.

40 degrees.

Yeah.

So I got kind of a mental note of where I'm at here with my feet and everything.

It's going to take me a little bit to warm up here with the, with the talking.

{LAUGHS} Alright.

When I was nine I was diagnosed with anxiety, OCD, Tourette syndrome, and very early on we were trying to find things to, to help.

I was always looking for ways to cope, always looking for ways to self-regulate.

And, I had moved up her about three and a half years ago for work and pretty quickly fell into a, just depression.

And I was looking for anything, anything and everything to to try and get my mood better and to feel better and to to want to enjoy life.

And I had a buddy who came to visit me one time and he saw how close I lived to the Boise River here.

So we did our first ice bath and that just, that really, really stuck with m because I noticed this feeling for two to three hours afterward of just mood improvement of like a central nervous system reset of just feeling calm, relaxed, yet energetic and, and happy.

And that was appealing to me in the beginning because I was trying to get over thoughts and I was trying to move past feelings and moods and and I knew that I could come out and I could sit in the water and all of that would go away because this water was 38 degrees, right, and I couldn't possibly think about anything else.

There was nothing else to think about because I was just trying to survive.

{PIANO SWELLS} {DEEP EXHALE} {GURGLING WATER} {DEEP BREATHING CONTINUES} That initial drop into the wate is always, always the hardest.

It's a shock to your system.

So your heart rate spikes, your breathing gets real tight, real out of control.

Feels like you're struggling.

And that's when it's just so important to override your breathing, your mindset, and keep the muscles loose.

Don't tense up, don't clench the jaw {INHALES DEEPLY} and slow the breathing down.

The sooner you can slow it down, the sooner your heart rate drops {EMOTIONAL PIANO SLOWS, BIRDS CHIRP} It is exhilarating in the moment because all of those things happen and you go into just a very solitary focus where everything els just kind of seems blocked out.

And so it becomes this active fight almost between your brain and your body and you're trying to understand who's in control.

{BIRDS CHIRP} It was kind of a hard one today.

Hard to get out here, but it's been so important Been so important for my mood, so importan for how I feel on a day-to-day.

And it's just been a really good tool to help me learn to adapt with stress and for the unexpected.

So here I am.

It's kind of just my own little place, my own little happy place.

{ORCHESTRAL MUSIC BUILDS, HALTS} You're barefoot you're grounding with the earth, you're getting sunlight.

I love birds.

{LAUGHS} You know?

You just feel so good after.

It's like a whole central nervous system reset just, mind goes clear.

It's like you wake up from really, like, a really good nap.

I think we're conditioned as human beings, especially today, to, to hate the cold, to immediatel see it as like evil and, and to, to tense all of our muscles and to huddle and to have a very short breath.

And yeah, that's kind of the point though, is you're going in there to teach yourself you can do hard things.

And those hard things can lead to great outcomes and feeling better than where you were before.

It took something as extrem as this to just convince myself, like, something's got to change, something's got to change.

{ORCHESTRAL MUSIC SWELLS DRAMATICALLY} {ORCHESTRA CRESCENDOS, HALTS}