Women's surfing legend Bethany Hamilton knows what today's young people "are struggling with most," and she has the solution.

"It was a hard time in my life, just embracing motherhood," Bethany Hamilton tells PEOPLE Ale Russian is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has ...

Bethany Hamilton lost her left arm in a shark attack when she was 13 years old Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018.