I have been obsessed with learning lessons in the wilderness since I was a little kid. For some reason, I sometimes struggled to make sense of the difficult moments in my life - as a child, it is hard to understand why people choose to "bully" you for the things that make you the most special and unique...
It’s never mattered to me that I’m a woman who loves adventure. I don’t mean that in a negative way – I just never saw it as a limiting factor or as something that was even remotely out of the ordinary. As a young girl, I spent my days exploring the creek behind our house – digging up crawfish and searching for snakes, and, once, even outrunning an alligator (true story). I dangled from tree branches, watched anthills for hours and scampered...
I used to hate social media. In fact, in the midst of a difficult time in my life, I completely retreated from the internet in general. Most devastatingly, I stopped writing and I stopped connecting with other adventurers. It took me a few years to emerge from my own darkness, and in the process, I learned how to use social media as a tool for inspiration, rather than negativity. Instead of jumping down the rabbit hole of news, I put my...
