From 2010-2013, I worked with Wella Hartig to write the story of how she stumbled into exercise as a young adult and subsequently focused her two children in the sport of swimming. 

Buoyant:  How Water and Willpower Helped Wella to Channel Aaron and Hayley Peirsoltells the story of the family’s meteoric rise from single-parent welfare circumstances to distinction in the world of elite swimming.  Discovering that intense exercise grounded her, despite challenges from ADHD and anxieties, Wella guided her children, Aaron and Hayley, into remarkable athletic careers that resulted in seven Olympic medals and two world records for Aaron as well as world rankings for Hayley in freestyle distance events and triathlon.  This family memoir offers guidance to other parents navigating competitive sports and touches upon cutting-edge neuroscience that relates exercise to mental health. It is a clear lesson that we have the power to change our own lives.