Trail Map
This is a structural overview of the blog. This is not chronological. There's no right order. Use this to locate what you need, skip what you don't, and return when ready.
Sensory, Visual & Ritual
In Motion
Short videos no narration - nature's texture, rhythm and sound.
Wildflower Gallery
Northern California Bloom - Spring 2025
Trail Textures
Photography and short meditations on natural textures
Micro Rituals
Grounding practices drawn from nature
Reflections & Observations
Field Notes
Walking with chronic pain and presence
Slow Wisdom
Reflections on slowing and nature's rhythm
Practical Guides
Adaptive Trailcraft
Trail-tested strategies for moving in wild spaces with chronic illness, disability, and post-injury
- Foundational Trailcraft
Moving safely with a fluctuating body, reality checks to flare-day protocols - Trailcraft On Thin Ice
Hiking with Lupus, RA, POTS, and intracranial hypertension - Re-Entry After Flare
Intracranial Hypertension, post-flare adaptation, returning safely to hiking - Hiking with POTS
When pulse spikes, balance wavers and standing becomes uncertain - Hiking with RA & Lupus
Identifying limitations early prevents setbacks later - Raising the Floor
Tools that helped rebuild function
Ground-Up Resilience
Rebuilding strength, safety, and motion from collapse. For anyone recovering from illness, trauma, injury, or burnout.
- Layer One: Start Where You Are
Chronic illness recovery real talk: sleep, food, movement - Layer Two: Structural Integrity
You can't stretch your way to safety, you have to earn it - Layer Three: Applied Adaptation
Trail-ready doesn't mean strong, it means honest - Layer Four: Integration & Meaning
When your body starts to feel safe, something deeper returns
Inner Trailcraft
Inner Trailcraft
Patterns and reflections for living in a trauma-adapted body. Reframes that change how you see chronic illness and healing.
- Before There Were Practices
How a kid with nowhere safe to land found nervous system survival tools in the woods. - Trauma-Illness Connection
How survival strategies leave marks — physical, emotional, systemic. - Signals We Ignore
Reflections on pushing through, overriding, and learning to listen. - When Practices Change
Micro-rituals, presence, and what your body asks of you now.
Root Work
Sustained, heavy work. Read when you’re ready.
Still Rolling Out
A four-part series on chronic illness, trauma, movement, and sovereignty. Closes with origins - Series Zero.
- Series One
Moving through chronic pain - Series Two
Trauma's echoes, healing in nature's witness - Series Three
Struggle as teacher - Series Four
Sovereignty within constraint
Series Zero
Not redemption, a record, pieces that were hardest to look at. The inward-facing work and anchoring for everything that came after.
- Act Zero
The collapse - Root Work
The wiring - What the Body Remembers
The continuum
Other Pages
Why This Exists
The Story Behind SRO
Support This Work
Authors' Note