Ellie-Jean Coffey, is a professional Australian surfer, content creator and Shore Thang model. She has had her share of trauma. Her independent spirit, confident exterior and beauty belies deep trauma. Coming up as a young surfer, she had experienced misogynistic abuse by male surfers. Surfing is essentially a male dominated sport, and as a young woman trying to become established in this field, Ellie-Jean experienced physical intimidation and bullying. This left emotional scars so deep that it changed the trajectory of her life. Ellie-Jean Coffey essentially had to give up surfing as she was contending with thoughts of suicide from the multitude of abuse. The competitive environment of surfing did not leave much room to express the pain which Ellie-Jean was going through. Which had a profound impact on Ellie Jean’s mental health and sense of self worth. The humiliation, and exclusion which manifested as physical abuse as well as psychological abuse, had an overwhelmingly negative effect on Ellie-Jean. Ellie-Jean had experienced all of this during her most formative years as a surfer. The abuse which she suffered in this industry, at the hands of male surfers made her feel unsafe. Ellie-Jean opened up in an interview with Yahoo about […]