As I work to heal from the first of numerous surgeries on my foot, I’ve been thinking about how what we experience in life creates the story we carry with us into our future. This impacts how we interpret the behavior of others and how we react in the world. Because of experiences in my…

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I’ve been thinking a lot about scars lately, both physical and emotional ones. Some scars barely impact our lives, but others have more lasting impact. When I burned 40% of my body over 30 years ago, I had some scars that were so tight I had to have them surgically removed and expanded by cutting…

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Asking for help has never been easy for me. I’ve gotten better at it over these last few years of backpacking, in part because it’s the only way I was able to achieve my goal. For instance, without the help I received on the Florida Trail with people shuttling my car around so I didn’t…

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There are many times in my life when I have felt hemmed in without a way out. It was certainly that way as a child growing up in an abusive family. As an adult, making the commitment to do the extremely painful work of healing trauma and reuniting my dissociative parts often left me feeling…

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I spent part of today chipping ice off my solar panels. They’ve been solidly encased in ice for almost a week. Pretty much every day I’ve brushed the new snow off them without being able to make a dent in the thick layer of ice underneath. Looking at the upcoming weather and realizing there was…

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Where to begin? Perhaps by saying, I have thought often of all of you who read my blogs. I’m grateful to those who have checked in on me to see how I’m doing and who donated to the GoFundMe site after my foot was burned. Truly, my connections with people are one of the things…

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