The Wellness Surf & Skate Podcast
Welcome to The Wellness Surf and Skate Podcast — where therapy meets the tide, pavement meets healing, and wellness flows through movement.
Hosted by Albert Balderas, a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Surf Therapy Facilitator, this podcast explores the intersection of mental health, nature-based healing, and board sports like surfing and skateboarding. Each episode dives into topics like surf and skate therapy, somatic practices, emotional alchemy, community healing, and the power of play.
Whether you’re a therapist, a skater, a surfer, or a soul seeking connection, you’ll find stories, strategies, and soulful insights to help you move through life with more presence, resilience, and stoke.
Healing doesn’t have to happen in stillness. Sometimes, it happens in motion.
New episodes weekly. Let’s ride.
The Wellness Surf & Skate Podcast
Episode 6: Surf, Skate, and the Inner Child
In this episode, host Albert Balderas, California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Surf Therapy Facilitator, invites you into a deeper exploration of your inner child — the part of you that still carries wonder, fear, playfulness, and pain.
Through the rhythms of skateboarding and the ebb and flow of surfing, Albert shares how movement becomes a powerful way to reconnect with the parts of ourselves that long to be seen, supported, and celebrated. We explore how skate and surf therapy invite emotional risk, curiosity, laughter, and even tears all of which make space for healing.
Whether you’re just discovering your inner child or already walking with them daily, this episode is a call to move, to feel, and to remember.