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Swim Effect was created out of a need to incorporate sober spaces and support within the music world. We are opening up the conversation, spreading awareness, and creating community for all those seeking a more positive world to enjoy the greatest pleasures of life through art and music.
A lucid music movement
We're opening up the conversation about sobriety in the music industry and entertainment world.
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Swim Effect is on a mission to provide substance-free spaces for musicians and music lovers to enjoy art in a sober, supportive, positive environment.
We are creating a wide-spread community for all individuals, generating social change to shift the perspective of sobriety in the entertainment world. Our movement acts to spread awareness and provide support for all those seeking a more positive world to enjoy the greatest pleasures of life through art and music.
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I’m a full time musician and a full time recovering addict. My most peaceful, healing, and restorative moments have always been by water.
There’s a song called Swim written by one of my favorite artists (Andrew McMahon). It’s about ‘keeping your head above.’ As an addict - recovering or not - you always feel like you’re drowning, you’re not enough, you’re alone. Swim Effect came out of my thoughts around what happens if you keep going in those moments, if you keep swimming to the surface, to the sunlight: you find your purpose, you meet people and find you aren’t alone, you share your story, you learn good things about yourself and others, you spread positivity - you create a ripple effect. So I created Swim Effect to turn this idea into a movement in a world I feel most joyful, most vulnerable, and most lacking sober specific support: music
There’s this powerful idea that mind altering substances fuel a musician’s creative mind, are required to mask insecurities, put on a good show, and be a good time. I’m challenging the power sustaining that idea by creating a substance-free movement in the music world with Swim Effect.
Hey there, I'm Anne.
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If you keep going, if you keep swimming to the surface, to the sunlight: you find your purpose, you meet people and know you aren’t alone, you reach people with your story, you learn good things about
yourself and others, you spread positivity -
you create a ripple effect.
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