Skip Van Gardner on Surviving Psychological Death

On a June morning off the Florida coast, a routine crossing to the Bahamas became a fight for survival—a forty-one-foot boat caught between two rogue squall lines for over two hours of hell, a thousand things that could go wrong, a body dangling over 3,000 feet of water, the life raft buried and out of reach. But the storm was only the sharpest edge of the hardest year of his life: his marriage ending, his father dying, and his own mind hitting a wall he had no language for. The instincts that kept him alive at sea—adapt fast, face the biggest wave first, cover for the person beside you—became the ones that carried him through everything on land. Skip Van Gardner is a businessman, storyteller, and lifelong sailor who spent two decades living and working in Manhattan, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., before settling outside Orlando, Florida. His debut book, "Pivoting From Blue: One Year of Death, Divorce & Discovery", is drawn from a single year of his life — February 2025 to February 2026 — and chronicles the divorce, the loss of his father, and the near-death crossing that changed how he moves through the world. ​Learn more at skipvangardner.com. SOCIAL MEDIA: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?...   / skip-van-gardner-pivoting-from-blue     / skipvangardner   BluApple: https://thebluapple.com?sca_ref=88372... Code: Brandi15