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Chad Brown

@omensign.bsky.social

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Kayaking as mental health; come and escape with me as I give up the search for meaning and self. Be sad and be happy with me. Help one another. 45 Married #kayak #kayaking #Paddling #Canoe #Canoeing #Nature #MentalHealth #atheist #cPTSD

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Chad Brown @omensign.bsky.social · Nov 12

#BrazosRiver #HempsteadTx #WashingtonCounty #Kayak #Kayaking #kayakingismentalheath

This is my friend and I paddling 15 miles from Highway 290 to highway 159 on the Brazos River, starting in Washington County Texas near Hempstead Texas.

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Chad Brown @omensign.bsky.social · 14d

#kayak #paddling #nature #dog my little overly tolerant friend showing some love on the water.

Chad Brown @omensign.bsky.social · 22d

Every time I get a new faster more unstable #kayak or #canoe I always have this experience on the 2nd or 3rd time out on the water, where I switch from being nervous and fluttery in my balance to buttery smooth strokes/gliding.

Chad Brown @omensign.bsky.social · 25d

#rockycreekfalls #lakelivingston #kayak

Well, the falls are low today, but they were higher a week ago. Nice picture regardless and featuring my partner @tippy3880.bsky.social

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Chad Brown @omensign.bsky.social · Oct 6

#coloradoriver #columbusloop

Easy 7 mile paddle on the Columbus loop in #ColumbusTx

Tested out a new racing canoe paddle, it was a stress free day of learning to paddle with it.

Chad Brown @omensign.bsky.social · Oct 2

I think I've combined #D&D with #paddling; a fantasy campaign setting in an endless sky where magical rivers flow like undulating tentacles through the heavens. Small islands of greenery cling to the hovering rivers and adventurers paddle it's exotic waters.

Chad Brown @omensign.bsky.social · Sep 30

I understood that speech as being a pretext to use the U.S. military against Americans.

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Chad Brown @omensign.bsky.social · Sep 28

#StubblefieldRecreationArea this is the northern most point of #LakeConroe in #TX; we #paddled in a mixture of #SUP and #Kayak through a scenic wetland NW of Houston.

It's nice having such a beautiful place in #nature so close to Houston.

Chad Brown @omensign.bsky.social · Sep 24

I have no doubts that my mother will eventually call me and tell me she took Tylenol.

Chad Brown @omensign.bsky.social · Sep 22

When you #kayak in #Texas in #nature; visited the east side of #LakeLivingston and #paddled my way up to the Rocky Creek Falls ( apparently the only waterfall within 100 miles of Houston ).

It is spectacular.

@tippy3880.bsky.social in front of a Texas Longhorn.

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Chad Brown @omensign.bsky.social · Sep 17

The #innercritic is more than just the voice of a cruel father or an absent mother, it's more than every childhood bully, it's a trained version of me, a clone. It's a stand in for those that came before, that are now absent, stepping in to be the perfect brutalizer. #mentalhealth

Chad Brown @omensign.bsky.social · Sep 17

Speaking of the #innercritic, it is always there. A millstone of rhetorical venom, hellbent on grinding my mind to dust. It tells me horrible things about myself & others, it knows all my failures and weaknesses, it's the perfect duplicate of my internal analytical cynic. #mentalhealth

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Chad Brown @omensign.bsky.social · Sep 17

I'm not really sure what I need or want; moments of being present happen time to time, mostly on water. #kayaking has been a boon to my #mentalhealth, something about the moving water & the physical exertion involved keeps that brutal #innercritic at bay long enough where I can relax in peace.

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Chad Brown @omensign.bsky.social · Sep 17

I say I'm giving up the search for #meaning & #self; yet I desperately still claw at both. I've checked off achievements, personal achievements, expecting each one to kind of open into a sense of emotional fulfillment - but there's just a void at the finish line every time. #mentalhealth

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Chad Brown @omensign.bsky.social · Sep 15

A fellow #instructor joins me and we corral the two boats/swimmers, get them in their #kayak and send them on their way just in time for a grinning photo op as they pass a photographer in the brush

#rescue #instruction #safety

Chad Brown @omensign.bsky.social · Sep 15

As it's happening a 2nd #rescue is taking place above my spot; I'm unaware of it until I see a #kayak floating by with no swimmer, it sends me into a frenzy to find the swimmer & I'm about to dive out to check the boat before I spot him standing on the shore 100 yards up river. #safety #instruction

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Chad Brown @omensign.bsky.social · Sep 15

Some fun moments providing #kayak #instruction and #safety #rescue; paddler wet exits in a deep spot, decide to dump his boat by pulling it up on my boat and it works beautifully. Get him back in and slap the tires and light the fire - he makes it 2 feet and flips again.

Alas.

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Chad Brown @omensign.bsky.social · Sep 14

Myself and 11 other #paddling instructors took 40 parent/child teams down 6 miles of class 1 and 2 whitewater in #kayaks two days in a row; it was a blast.

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Chad Brown @omensign.bsky.social · Sep 8

#Canoe #Wenonah #kayak

Some morning exercise #paddling up river on the #BrazosRiver, at HWY 290 near Hempstead TX. The river is returning to it's average low after being heavily inundated with rain through the year.