Still Rolling Out
An unflinching account of healing that rejects...
Affirmation manifesting wellness narratives promising shiny transformations or cures.
This four-part series traces the ongoing, messy reality of chronic illness. Where medicine is found in movement and meaning emerges in the wild. It explores reclaiming the body, coexisting with trauma's residue, finding strength within limitation, and claiming sovereignty when all terms change.
This isn't inspiration porn or spiritual bypassing. It's a brutally practical reckoning with the gap between wellness ideals and illness reality. Where genuine hope emerges not in grand gestures, but in small, sustainable changes.
Hiking becomes both metaphor and medicine—movement as resistance, presence as rebellion. Nature regulates the nervous system through the wind, the water, the unhurried patience of stone... Systems older and steadier than trauma.
This is permission to heal imperfectly. Where survival itself becomes victory. Nature demands no performance. Only presence. You don't have to be better to begin.
You're still rolling.
Series One
Returning to hiking not as therapy, but survival. Reclaiming relationship with a body that feels like a betrayer. Nature doesn’t demand performance—only presence. Each post captures micro-victories and the radical act of showing up when everything hurts.
→ Series One Posts
Series Two
Exploring trauma’s physical residue. The nervous system speaks in breath patterns and startles. This isn't about "healing trauma" but about learning to coexist with a body that remembers what the mind tried to forget.
→ Series Two Posts
🛠️ On the Workbench (Coming Soon)
Series Three: tackles the uncomfortable truth that struggle often becomes teacher. Without falling into toxic positivity, it explores how limitations force a different kind of strength—not dominance, but harmony.
Series Four: examines what sovereignty actually means when your body sets the terms. It's about thriving within constraints rather than despite them, finding authentic self-expression.
🌿 Walking Beside, Not Ahead
These trails are stories, not instructions. I’m not here to tell you what you should do, or how you ought to heal. You carry your own map. I carry mine.
We meet on the path for a while, trade a little company, and then keep moving in our own directions. If you find something here that makes your journey lighter, take it.
If not, leave it on the trail for someone else.
*Peer reflections, not therapy advice. Your healing journey is uniquely yours.*