It’s never easy struggling with addiction and it takes courage to share a story that many might silently resonate with.
Karim Lachapelle took what would have broken most to fuel an incredible street edit. Snowboarding isn’t just a sport, it consumes your life in ways we never thought it could. It has acted as a saviour in so many. Headphones on, locked in, just feeling everything so blissfully.
The mind stops for a brief moment to allow you to get some air whilst dealing with life’s struggles.
The community builds you up, the board gives a purpose to meet up when in some cases it’s hard to ask for the help of needing to be around a friend and get out of your pit.
Karim:
At the beginning of last winter, my friend Alexandre Blanchet (filmmaker and longtime friend) and I started filming some street riding without any real goal. After about a month, the clips started piling up, and we began talking about turning it into a project. After some thought, we decided to call it Therapy for two reasons.
The first one is that snowboarding acts as a kind of therapy for me — it’s my time to forget about all the little problems in life.
The second reason is that last year, I decided to take control of my life and go to therapy to overcome some struggles with addiction.
This project really helped me stay focused on my sobriety throughout the season. Most of the shots were filmed around my hometown, Rouyn-Noranda (Québec) with a few others in Toronto, North Bay, and Cobalt.
