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Letting Go: Fear

Last week while I was out hiking I listened to a podcast on The Moth by an Australian comedic actress, Magda Szubanski. It’s called Reclaiming Fear. She speaks of vulnerability, shame, fear, forgiveness, and her father who happened to be a Polish assassin. I am not going to retell her story and destroy the beauty of the words she put together so eloquently, but you can listen to it at The Moth. One of the reasons I love stories so much...

Fear Will Steal Your Joy

Lying on the ground I looked up at the mountain not too far in the distance, and all I could think is, I’d hike that. But, first, get this eight hundred pound motorcycle off my leg. The pain was intense, but the fear of never again doing what I love was worse. I knew I was hurt, but at the time didn’t know how bad. In the months to come I would discover I had a fracture in my back...