As we reflect on the past year and look forward to the next year, reviewing promises we made to ourselves of things we were going to drop or add from our lives in 2018, I reflect on why I write. Why do I share deeply personal stories, experiences, and feelings for anyone and everyone to …
Tag: Overcoming
We Are All In This Together
So many of my greatest revelations come to me when I'm on a trail. I think it's the combination of physical movement (heyyyy, endorphins) and nature that seems to be the perfect cocktail for gaining personal insight. Whether I'm alone or with someone, I almost always come back from a run with some new insight …
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. …
The Darkness
Blackness. When I came to, my stomach lurched, and I was immediately sick. I found out from her. "In that time, we've had a second child together." That time. The 3 years we had lived together. Fake Plastic Love. She found me through my blog. My safe space. My creative outlet where I shared personal struggles and …
Suit of Armor
They say time heals all. But how does one cope with the pain in the present? How does one move forward after a traumatic or adverse experience? We are a numbing society. We numb with work. We numb with alcohol and drugs. We numb with food. We numb with shopping. It is adaptive to avoid …
5:55
The air moving into my lungs burned as it moved in and out, but I felt my chest starting to open for the first time in 6 weeks. "Something must be working", I thought as I took gulps of the clean mountain air, my lungs burning from illness and from being at 9,000 feet elevation …
Real World Inspiration-Resilience and Fortitude
Studies of human resilience are as fascinating as they are encouraging because they are reminders of the human capacity to overcome adversity. From every day setbacks, challenges, and resistance (from ourselves or externally) to extraordinary adversity in the forms of loss, grief, marginalization, and pain, the ability of humans to overcome obstacles and challenges is …
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Taking the First Step
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Running in the Sun 