Symbolically, autumn is considered a season of balance, preparation, and reflection. Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald Balance is undoubtedly one of the greatest challenges in modern society. Balance between work and life, balance between healthy habits and not-so-healthy habits, balance between personal goals in …
Category: Progress
The Aspen Tree
Typically, when people think about vulnerability, they think about sentiments I discussed last week, feelings of weakness, helplessness, exposure. Yet vulnerability is the birthplace of our greatest strength, an inherently empowering experience and position to be in, one in which we can strip layers of ourselves that no longer serve us, layers that have hurt …
A Place of Vulnerability
It took me over a year until I felt like I could even consider talking to a counselor about what had happened, about the level of betrayal I felt when I found out that the person I was with, whom I had trusted wholly in life and in love had, essentially, been living a secret …
27 Miles
The sound of the alarm broke the darkness of the night. 2:50am. Despite the hour, I immediately got out of bed and headed downstairs to start the coffee. I couldn't wait to start the day. November 4, 2017. I had been back in NM almost exactly a year. I had been running for 9 months. …
Progress Is Not Perfection
Growing up, I had a very hard time with being too hard on myself and struggling with perfectionism. I was the kid who would cry if I missed a note in a piano recital and the kid who was disappointed and angry at myself when I realized that it was physically impossible to drop time …
