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Sam Bloom is a bestselling author, global keynote speaker, 2 x World Para Surfing champion and inspiration behind global hit movie Penguin Bloom.
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May 13, 2022 · Sam Bloom survived a fall from a balcony in Thailand that left her paralysed from the chest down. She became a bestselling author, a Hollywood star and a two-time world para surfing champion.
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Jan 23, 2021 · Sam Bloom was paralysed after a fall in Thailand and found hope in a magpie named Penguin. Her journey is portrayed by Naomi Watts in a film that aims to be raw and authentic.
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Sam Bloom is a former nurse who became paralysed from the chest down after a fall in Thailand in 2013. She recovered with the help of a magpie chick named Penguin, and became a world champion paracanoeist and surfer.
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- Healing with A Feathery Friend
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After the accident, Bloom endured seven months of rehabilitation and then returned to her house in Australia. In a 2017 piece for TIME, Bloom described the harrowing experience of being in such a familiar place that suddenly felt wrenchingly unfamiliar. “When viewed from a wheelchair, the once-familiar sanctuary of love and comfort became an alien ...
Three months after Bloom returned home her 11-year-old son, Noah, found the injured baby magpie, which the family named Penguin. The tiny bird had fallen out of its nest and dropped over 60 feet onto an asphalt parking lot, where she would have died had the Bloom family not taken her home. Sam Bloom wrote that caring for Penguin was an undertaking—...
When Naomi Watts read Penguin Bloom, she was so moved by the family’s story that she wanted to adapt it for the screen. She told People: “The images were so compelling, and the story was filled with courage and hope.” The Bloom family was intimately involved in the adaptation—Sam Bloom allowed Watts to read her journals, and the movie was shot in t...
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Sep 14, 2021 · Sam Bloom is an Australian surfer and mother who was paralysed from the chest down after a fall in Thailand. She found hope and purpose in a baby magpie she named Penguin, and became an adaptive sports champion and a bestselling author.
Oct 7, 2023 · Sam Bloom is a three time world para-surf champion and best selling author of Penguin Bloom, a book about her journey of recovery from a near-fatal accident. Watch her story of how she rediscovered the will to live through sport and overcame her darkest times.
