A few days ago, I finished Gabor Maté’s The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture. It wasn’t a book I’d been planning on reading, but within its 500 pages, I found the compassion and love inside of myself that I have needed to heal, and to move forward in life. Join me for the first of many book reviews.
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Why Soul-Based Coaching is NOT Counseling
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Once again, I set myself up for a “big” Saturday. The plan? Wake up at 4 a.m. to hit the Emigrant Trail outside of Truckee for my longest run to date since 2015 or so (15 miles) where I’d meet my friend for a mountain bike ride on that same trail (17.82 miles total) to help break in her new mountain bike and to introduce her to the world of single-track trails. So, I started running on a trail blazed in orange light and another topic came to mnd that is relevant to this long day of mine insofar as it relates to how I understand the world, and how I want to go about facing the challenges that come up in life from time to time.
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A New Starting Line
This morning, I watched the sunrise light the eastern horizon beneath pink cotton candy clouds as I ran alone along the shoulder of Alexander Lane that climbs up one side of Rattlesnake Mountain and down to Veteran’s Parkway. Around mile four or so, the road eventually meets the bike path where I spent my mornings rollerskating by the marshes last year. If I’m completely honest, I wasn’t sure I could complete the entire 6.5 mile loop this morning, running, but since it was 5 a.m. and I was up anyway, I thought: why not give it a try?
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Discovering New Possibilities on Old Trails
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Like a lot of us, I’ve been stuck in the house for basically a year, and so when a friend of mine who had never been hiking before asked me if we could go hiking together, I decided I needed to close the front door of the house behind me and step into the world I knew and loved so much before life got complicated, and I forgot this essential part of myself.
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Something Didn't Happen
Last year, I thought that this week I would be going on a new adventure: I’d be riding my pink Felt road bike from San Francisco to L.A. on the 8-day, 525-mile epic journey called the California Coast Classic, which is a major fundraiser for the Arthritis Foundation. Then, COVID-19 happened, and the official event was canceled, and I ended up with an 8-day staycation. I used the time to discover something about myself.
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