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 …
Tag: Running
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. …
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 …
I’m Bad At It
In the past few years there has been interesting research about children being told they will or will not be good, or bad, at something. A lot of the research is specifically focused on women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics), although the findings are applicable in a number of areas (Source, Source). As the …
Taking the First Step
This is the excerpt for your very first post.
Running in the Sun 