GET OUT GIRL

Being a human in a body can be really hard.

I was a chubby kid... and a chubby teenager. And a chubby young adult! I was very active with a healthy diet, but I was stuck in a size that didn't reflect it. I hated my body for it. I resented my body. How could I be doing everything "right" without any of it working?

As this decade comes to a close, I can't help but look back and smile at everything that has happened in the past ten years. I've grown in ways I never expected. I've made accomplishments that I'm truly proud of. But it didn't always feel like I was on the right track. You know that "they" say:

 "Hindsight is 2020."

2019 has been a weird year. I haven't been hiking, climbing, camping, etc. nearly as much as I used to. I'm just here-- adulting proficiently, but ...

"You want me to do something... Tell me I can't do it."- Maya Angelou    1| You have to be fit to hike. There's absolutely no requirement to ...

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."-John Muir   H...

This past October, I decided to go through a yoga teacher training course to deepen my practice. It was intense-- almost like having a second job--...

You know you're weird when you find yourself saying, "I barely worked out this week. I only did two days of Crossfit, a two-hour rock-climbing sess...

"Polite conversation is rarely either." - Fran Lebowitz   I used to think that I was afraid of confrontation... I went through my twenties thinki...

"Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds."-Napoleon Hill One of the first life lessons I learned from rock climbing (there are ...

I've been back from Tanzania for a week now. Friends, family, co-workers-- everyone has been asking what it was like to climb the mountain. I'm sti...

out•door•ism | The belief that we all belong outdoors and outdoors, we all belong. I'm mostly a hiker/climber/camper, but I love pretty much ever...