A complex young woman seeking to improve her mental health goes on a confronting and emotional journey into the world of extreme sports in order to face her fears and take her power back.
Raw, cinematic and unguarded, Extreme Minds is the emotional and inspiring story of Laura, a complex young woman who decides to take on enormous risks that will inevitably change her life forever. After years of struggling with anxiety and debilitating depression, Laura’s curiosity leadsher into the world of extreme sports.
Guided by world leading Adventure Psychologists and elite sporting mentors, Laura takes on four extreme disciplines: highlining, freediving, skydiving and big-wave surfing.
Against the backdrop of Australia’s most breathtaking landscapes, from the ancient rockfaces of the Blue Mountains to the underwater cathedrals of Flynn Reef, thebrutal beauty of Shipstern Bluff Tasmania, and the wide open skies above Queensland, nature becomes a character in itself.
Each sport reveals a new wayfor Laura to lean into her fears, building resilience and offering life changing tools that can be implemented in everyday life. As Laura pushes higher and dives deeper, life hits harder: a breakup, sudden hearing loss and the continuous grief of living an ocean away from her Colombian family. On every ledge, in every swell and in every breathless descent, Laura learns that the only way out of fear might be straight through the heart of it.