Trauma-Illness Connection: What I Wish I'd Known Sooner
We're not broken, we're adapted. Understanding how trauma lives in the body changes everything about chronic illness healing.
The Dance of Memory and Mirror
That day on the trail, I discovered I was carrying more than I knew.
Embrace Your Pain Without Being Imprisoned by It
Re-entry after a flare, pacing, or grounding through sensation.
Held from Above
You are held, even when you can’t see it.
Trailcraft on Thin Ice: Hiking with Lupus, RA, POTS & Intracranial Hypertension
Living with multiple systemic illnesses in wild terrain requires more than grit. It takes strategy, humility, and respect for a body that can crash in five directions at once.
Growing Around the Wound
Liberation isn't cure. It's growing around what stays.
Becoming / Returning
A return to oneself through nature.
Where Grief Meets Grace
Grace is the quiet peace that opens when we stop demanding the impossible from ourselves.
The Forest Reflects
The forest doesn't fix you. It shows you what still breathes beneath the exhaustion.
