Still Rolling Out

Chronic Illness Doesn’t Wait

It arrives messy, uninvited, and refuses to let go. Before the ICU collapse, before trauma laid down its patterns, there was a body learning to carry its own weight.

Still Rolling Out unfolds in arcs. Series One–Four documents survival, coexisting with trauma, testing limits, and discovering sovereignty within constraints. Series Zero is a three-part epilogue, circling back to the ICU collapse and the origins of the journey. It can be read before or after Series One–Four—whenever you’re ready to look back.

This is not inspiration porn. Hiking becomes medicine. Movement is resistance. Presence is rebellion. Nature steadies the nervous system.

Permission to heal imperfectly. Showing up counts as victory. You don’t have to be better to begin. You’re still rolling.

Series One

Survival first. Hiking as necessity, not therapy. Each post marks the radical act of showing up when your body refuses to cooperate.

Series Two

When the body remembers what the mind tries to forget. Learning to coexist with trauma, one breath at a time.

Series Three

Beyond survival: discovering a strength shaped by limits, not dominance. Harmony within constraints.

Series Four

Sovereignty on the body’s terms. Thriving, expressing, and finding freedom within limitations.

Series Zero

An epilogue that begins the story. Three essays trace the ICU collapse and the hidden patterns that shaped everything that followed.

→ Read: Series Zero

Still Rolling Outdoors is a blog of peer perspectives and reflections. Your healing journey is uniquely yours. Nothing here should be confused with medical or therapy advice. (More about this approach)