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
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
Written Series
Field Notes
Walking with chronic pain and presence
Micro Rituals
Grounding practices drawn from nature
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 - 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
Reframes that change how you see chronic illness and healing.
Trauma-Illness Connection
How the body adapts
When Practices Change
Rituals that adapt without abandoning yourself
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