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Low Tide Sessions, Muriwai Beach, Waimauku (2025)

02/12/2025

19WeeksDeep since Shoulder Surgery..
7DaysDeep since slipping in the shower. Drs diagnosis was sprained Medial in left knee & sprained rotator tendons in my left shoulder.
Instant TokyoDrift but that was 8-days ago." ZeroExcuses" just 100% ownership, I didn't follow my simple process of being methodological by taking my time,I rushed & FU**ED UP🤦 Unluggy Uce.
"OnlySolutions"
Was an intense 8 days of continuous icing & hot water bottle sessions of my knee & my shoulder, rotating every 20 minutes for 1 hour, hot water bottle on my knee while icing my shoulder.
"A solid trusted Process"
The end result, I was able to smash out a good solid rehab session with weights & resistance bands.
"Brutal Reality Check"
Sometimes these are the moments i like to reference as Light bulb Moments, which gives you instant total body & mind Recalibration and that brutal realization what will happen if you can't regain or take control of your TokyoDrifting situations.
Physio assessment was seki. My 8 day turn around was more Amazing than 3I/ATLAS...
we are always using these references ZeroExcuses OnlySolutions & a Trusted process.
Broken down in stages, you can understand just how simple you can prevent a minor TokyoDrift spiraling out of control.
Before I found these References the only way I could stop spiraling out of control was hitting that intersection called the crossroads of life, that darkplace where depression always takes so many of us when we feel lost helpless & alone, time stops and everything becomes a split second moment of DO I COMMIT TO SU***DE or DO I COMMIT TO FIGHTING MY WAY BACK TOWARDS THAT LIGHT.
These are the harsh realities of exactly where THE DARKNESS OF DEPRESSION can take us in a split second moment.
My korero of my continuous battles i face daily living with Depression are not posted for sympathy. I really just want people to understand that they are not alone, this platform is for the people who are searching for a safe space, to feel comfortable. This platform is my fu***ng Anti-depressant. A platform like this is what I wish I had when I realized I was so far lost in Depressions Darkness for the 1st time 2 years 5 months & 13 days ago.
LowtideSessions is for anyone & everyone.
ZeroExcuses OnlySolutions.
Nga mihi
Che'Thompson katene.

27/11/2025

A korero about a day is only half told when that korero only mentions how it ended. It was with my mothers blessings @21-15pm.
Time to korero about how it began 9-15am. MyTokyoDrift was unlocked by one small show of defiance from my shining light. Before I continue this was brewing deep for 2 weeks just silently TokyoDrifting & spiraling out of control.
This show of defiance @9-15am triggered instant Kaos internally mentally & emotionally that nothing made sense untill 9-45am. So For 25minutes this morning, my TokyoDrift was so serious,i still have no idea of just far gone I actually was. THIS IS A DETAILED REALITY CHECK OF JUST HOW FAST & HOW FAR THE DARKNESS OF DEPRESSION WILL TAKE YOU IN HALF A SPLIT SECOND .
@9-50AM...I finally realized I have an physio appointment @10-00am..
I already know my physio has my Doctors assessment & diagnosis notes from Tuesday's Dr's appointment, and its definitely not the news I really needed to hear in my current mental state of mind. So I just push through saying yup I got this, yeah accidents bloody happen, but in reality fu***ng screaming for help internally while screaming silently Externally with a smile.
10-30am My world is collapsing around me as im biking home with a fu**ed knee & tweaked out shoulder.
11-00am. Made it home, but shattered on every Level...
This is when my LowtideSessions finally start turning.
11-15am A phone call from my main Pau of support from dayone says he will stop in.
12-15 my brother's here.
12-25 A random phone call from a wahine that I randomly connected with through a random phone initiated by me 6 weeks ago. This amazing wahine is Jodi Imlach who is helping Jared Rogers who is behind HIIT4HOPE, which promotes mental awareness & physically well-being.
We korero and finally I cry my rivers, internally cleansing zero f***s given,this is the way I heal my pain,my tears being released are of my pain I have internally deep in my Wairua ,for me to be able to move foward and take control of my TokyoDrift im currently in this is my 1st stage of dealing with it. Release every emotion with zero f***s given.
Stage 2 The Power of Korero.
This phone call was 25minutes & 25seconds.
This entire random phone call is unfolding in front my son's Godfather my Main of support.
My bro leaves @14-15pm.
I'm now treading water until 21-15pm.

We can now say A korero is complete about story told because you now know how my day began TokyoDrifting @9-15am.
MyMumsBlessings @21-15pm . When navigating the tightrope of life, time becomes defined because every step could be your last,hence the specific documented timeframe through out this day are very important.

Today was a clear illustration of our cross-over Relevance & Interpretation of how we use the unpredictable tides of Tangaroa & the unpredictable nature of Depressions suffocating Darkness.
LowtideSessions is a platform created to give people a place to feel safe,where there are no questions asked and definitely no Judgments passed. The reason I share my unfiltered journey of what i still continue to experience on the daily living with Depression is to hopefully give people the strength & confidence to open up an make that 1st step at reaching out for help.
This platform is my anti-depressant, I stopped taking my 100mg Satrona Anti depressant on August 12th The day of my shoulder surgery.
Nothings Impossible cause Impossible is Nothing.
Can finally breeth @3-17am
HeavyDay
LowtideSessions
ZeroExcuses OnlySolutions
Nga mihi
Che'Thompson Katene

27/11/2025

TreadingWater back to the Wairua Waka, accepting everything that's associated to that journey.
Committed to the cause of breaking those Taboo cycles with a very perihial observation of how you can just break everything down into so many different stages, by doing this you will always find that ground zero issue which started that dark cycle from day dot.
My most important Taonga of Validation i needed before accepting ownership of of what I already know lays ahead for so many of my whanau and freinds on this Tino Ataahua journey was gifted to me
'Through The Power Of Open Korero'
THE DELIVERANCE was at first hesitant because of the topic, I received it with zero resistance and open arms.
My Mum had finally embraced what she has always had, her Perihial observation & Understanding of this Wairua Waka that had finally found the energy that's required for the mahi ahead.
Nothing can give your more motivation than your mother's BLESSINGS.
I Love you Mum, thank you so much for this Korero.
My Mum is my super Hero.
LowtideSessions
ZeroExcuses OnlySolutions
Nga mihi

Che'Thompson katene

25/11/2025

Life is Living and Living is Life,accepting everything that comes with it, the good & bad. It's s so easy to just give up because nothing we seem to do can change the current situations we are in.
For me I just have to accept where I am at in terms of where I have been. 16 weeks ago I had zero independence. For the 1st 5 weeks post shoulder surgery I had to sleep sitting up on the lounge. I couldn't do jack s**t but I pushed through,done the the most intense fu***ng rehab for 11 weeks once I was given the all clear from my specialist.
Then that one split second moment happens & s**t changed instantly,tweaked both injuries.
It was so easy to fall into the Darkness of depression again (straight facts).
Definitely struggled in that one moment once it happened.
I have always just trusted my process of dealing with my rehab journey & that's exactly where I am at present.
That's Life accepting everything that comes with it. It's not always easy, but if you have a solid process that's been tested and its got you to where ever it is you currently at this present time, stay solid to your processes, do you,for you before helping other's.
LowtideSessions
ZeroExcuses OnlySolutions.
Nga mihi.
Che'Thompson katene.

25/11/2025

26WeeksDeep KneeKeyhole surgery.
16WeeksDeep Shoulder surgery.

Dam reality checks of just how fragile a rehab journey of any kind can be. One small miscalculation can send you spiraling out of control.
Exactly what happened to me, fu***ng slipped and with zero hesitation I used my left arm to stop me from tweaking my left knee, in doing so I pinched something in my left shoulder.
Not good,physically broken & fu**ed,but mentally solid.
LowtideSessions
ZeroExcuses OnlySolutions
Nga mihi
Che'Thompson katene

12/11/2025

StageOne.. The Diary that created a seed

11/11/2025

Just like that JUMPED BY DARKNESS surrounded and suffocating for 3hours
So fu***ng close again ZERO F***S GIVEN & ...
Zero hesitation NO MORE NOISE NO CONTROL...Only disappointment didn't follow through.
SayLess if you don't fu***ng understand just putting it out that this is what fu***ng DEPRESSION IS MAN, its always there,its always waiting for an opportunity to jump you, and when it hits, its a THOUSAND TIMES HARDER.
Made it back out, just a brutal fu***ng reality check..
When your guiding light starts TOKYO-DRIFTING💯 it will always cause a major disturbance in my process.
I ain't got no problem documenting the harsh realities of living with Depression because, I just want people to try and have a perihial observation of understanding the struggles. Don't need no fu***ng sympathy, just want people to use this platform as a way of Recalibrating you're thought of processing when s**t gets way heavy.
we have the tools to guide ourselves out of DEPRESSIONS DARKNESS... WOW close call.
A picture tells a thousand stories
MyTokyoDrift & ZeroF**ks.
Nga mihi.
Che'Thompson katene

07/11/2025

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQtqm5QDcZc/?igsh=NXV0cnR6bGR3cTF2
Validation SayLess
a platform for the people.
Nga mihi
Che'Thompson katene

07/11/2025

Stage3 # Perihial Visual observations.
The story of the journey told hits even harder for some, when Validation gets served with an honest breakdown of my physical battles with 2 surgeries 7 weeks apart. Orthopedic Out-come I can start resistance and strength training.
Depression is a very DARKSPACE.. this platform is a safe space created with everything you will ever need to let you, just be you, with No Questions Asked & No Judgement Passed.
LowtideSessions
Nga mihi
Che'Thompson katene

06/11/2025

15WeeksDeep.. since shoulder surgery.
Stage1.. 1st 7Weeks in a sling 247 sleeping sitting up on the lounge drugged up on 100mgTramidole 4 times a day around the clock.
Stage2..8 Weeks of Passive range of motion & movement.
Stage3 .. today I hopefully get clearance to begin my 30 week strength training program with weights & assistance bands.
A trusted process to get me this far straight up hanging for the fu***ng Moana clensing...
Do the mahi zero excuses on positive solutions.
Nga mihi.
Che'Thompson Katene

05/11/2025

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQZKf-NjsLH/?igsh=MWgyYzlpcjBkcGR0OQ==
3 years ago this was me. This was my reality, I will never fu***ng forget this trauma, it pushed me to putting that fu***ng rope around my neck,in that split second moment I was at peace.
Never forget these moments of our journeys with Depression. My journey hopefully can inspire people especially our Rangatahi that there actually is a way out of Depressions Darkness.

Extinguishing Excuses & Offering solutions impossible is Nothing cause Nothing is Impossible.
Nga mihi
Che'Thompson katene

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