Layer Four: Integration & Meaning
When your body starts to feel safe, something else wakes up.
Layer Three: Applied Adaptation
Trail-ready doesn't mean strong. It means honest.
Layer Two: Structural Integrity
Where chronic illness recovery meets stability - starting with your feet, reconnecting the chain, and building control you can feel in your body again.
Raising the Floor: Tools That Helped Me Function Again
These are the resources that helped raise my baseline - enough to even imagine hiking again.
Layer One: Start Where You Are
When you have nothing left, start with three things: sleep, food, movement. The minimum is sacred.