Georgie Codd wants you to know she is not brave. Yet her first non-fiction book, We Swim to the Shark, is all about conquering fear, in her case a very specific phobia: ichthyophobia or the fear of fish. She chooses an extreme form of therapy to do so. The book charts her quest to immerse herself in the vast ocean that scares her so much to try and find the largest fish in the world: the giant and elusive whale shark. But still she wouldn’t describe herself as brave, “I don’t know what bravery really is. If bravery is doing something when you’re scared then yes I am brave but I don’t feel heroic and I’m no role model. Brave is weird. I think it’s people going 'I would not do that'".
an interview with georgie codd and alex ivey
an interview with georgie codd and alex ivey
an interview with georgie codd and alex ivey
Georgie Codd wants you to know she is not brave. Yet her first non-fiction book, We Swim to the Shark, is all about conquering fear, in her case a very specific phobia: ichthyophobia or the fear of fish. She chooses an extreme form of therapy to do so. The book charts her quest to immerse herself in the vast ocean that scares her so much to try and find the largest fish in the world: the giant and elusive whale shark. But still she wouldn’t describe herself as brave, “I don’t know what bravery really is. If bravery is doing something when you’re scared then yes I am brave but I don’t feel heroic and I’m no role model. Brave is weird. I think it’s people going 'I would not do that'".