Embracing Adventure and Resilience with See Her Outside
I recently joined Angie Marie on the See Her Outside podcast for a heartfelt and wide-ranging conversation about adventure, nervous system resilience, and how our bodies carry us through both the wilderness and everyday life.
We talked about my journey from moss-castle childhood play in Alaska to grueling wilderness classics, and how those eras of adventure shaped the way I approach challenge today. I opened up about the lessons I learned through my fertility journey, and how that experience shattered my old belief that effort always equals outcome. And I shared the story of my life-or-death moment with anaphylaxis in the backcountry, and how nervous system skills, community, and the land itself helped me through it with a sense of growth rather than trauma.
Angie and I also dug into how suffering, novelty, and joy show up in different seasons of adventure, what post-traumatic growth can look like, and eve
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Strength is a concept that is not entirely foreign to me, but physical strength specifically is something I never assumed to have. I have known that I have emotional fortitude; a stubbornness to persevere and thrive despite all odds. As a child in the foster care system for the first 6 years of my life, my mental and emotional strength was tested and strengthened time and time again, and even as I grew older and found security and love through adoption; life still demanded a certain strength of me. But it definitely wasn’t physical strength that I focused on building. Because of this, I have never thought of myself ...
