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3 Epic Year-Round Day Hikes|Tasmania
Three Capes Track | Tasmania
Off-Track Navigation in the Tyndall Ranges of Tasmania’s Wild West
Frenchman’s Cap: Type II Fun in the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park | Tasmania
A Solo Journey Across The Western Arthurs Traverse in Tasmania

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digging into discomfort - ok, a year ago, my very

digging into discomfort - ok, a year ago, my very dear friend and most talented photographer took this photo. I know she won’t take this personally, but I didn’t like most of the photos because I felt so out of my element. My look is the top bun, sweaty face that doesn’t wear make up on the daily, feels really uncomfortable in a real bra and nice clothes, and likes having photos taken of my back rather than my face.

It took me one year, to look back on these photos and fall in love with my own reflection. I know many of us struggle so much with self-esteem and our unique image. But I am so amazed to see that the inner work I’m doing is translating into a healthier appreciation of self.

The reality is, I actually DO like dressing up, I like wearing make up, and I like the red carpet look. But in the moment, I dislike it because of how unfamiliar it is. It’s not as easy as the top bun. It brings in a new element of comparison and I’m so over comparing. Can we just celebrate unconditionally?!

I hope that you too, can dig up a photo from a few years ago, and truly fall in love with who you are and what the process might have been for you, to get to this stage, where you appreciate your smile, your eyes, your freckles, and your fancy vibe.

Thank you @tessashannonphoto for this super fun adventure where we got to laugh so much; thank you for making me feel beautiful, and although I’m just feeling it today, the day came, and for that I’m forever grateful for the adventure shoots we get up to. Miss you, darlin 🤍

📸: @tessashannonphoto

“her immune system, her muscles, and her fear sy

“her immune system, her muscles, and her fear system all had kept the score, but her conscious mind lacked a story that could communicate the experience. She re-enacted her trauma in her life, but she had no narrative to refer to” (Bessel - M.D.)

It’s not often that a book will ‘speak to me’, but when it does, I get a little closer to understanding myself and people around me without requiring concrete answers, but simply, an awareness and understanding.

I am only halfway through this book, and yet I’ve become so enlightened. I pick it up when I have the energy to do so, so that I can really soak in the goodness of it.

Becoming trauma-informed has been a beautiful journey for me. It allows me to see people around me in a totally different light. Less judgment, a more open heart, compassion and understanding from the onset without needing someone’s story to initiate that.

Trauma need not be compared nor evaluated. Sometimes there’s no words for it but rather a physiological response. Everyone has a story and a muscle memory of something from their lives.

Our reactions to words, touch, sounds, etc can stem from something we don’t even know happened in our lives, as a child...the early years. And yet the body knows...

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”among sports, mountain climbing is certainly th

”among sports, mountain climbing is certainly the one that offers the most accessible opportunities for achieving this union of body and spirit. Truly, the enormity, the silence, and the majesty of the great mountains naturally incline the soul toward that which is greater than human, and thus attract the better people to the point at which the physical aspect of climbing (with all the courage, the self-mastery, and mental lucidity that it requires) and an inner spiritual realization, become the inseparable and complementary parts of one and the same thing”

...throwback to summer 2020 cause right now, I’m not doing anything interesting, and I’m totally ok with that 🤟

📸: @solarus_cascadia

scaling ridges is a spiritual quest • “in mode

scaling ridges is a spiritual quest • “in modern civilization everything tends to suffocate the heroic sense of life. Everything is more or less mechanized, spiritually impoverished, and reduced to a prudent and regulated association of beings who are needy and have lost their self-sufficiency. The contact between man’s deep and free powers and the powers of things and of nature has been cut off; metropolitan life petrifies everything, syncopates every breath, and contaminates every spiritual ‘well’“

— now, go climb a mountain to return to your equilibrium ✌️ fill your spiritual well with new heights and exceed personal potential

a day for sharing a handful of juicy facts about m

a day for sharing a handful of juicy facts about me

1. I am in global demand and it’s kinda overwhelming 😂 having friends all around the world, I have been flooded with messages more, because I’m also communicating with those I care, much more. Now I have to SCREENSHOT who I need to respond to. The struggle is real!

2. I used to ALWAYS forget to pack my PJ’s for camp, road trips, sleepovers, you name it. Well now, I frequently run out of toilet paper... at home, on road trips, in the bush, on long treks (but i aways have pjs now). Tables turn, what can I say.

3. I’m a private English tutor! This one is shocking because I don’t even know how I cohesively get through conversations with my own friends. My first gig was back in 2009/2010 I believe. Then, in 2017, I worked for a language school in the Czech Republic, and bounced around different professional companies. I worked with electricians, veterinarians, businessmen, and even old camp friends! Now, 2021, I have a student that I had 4 years ago. Apparently I’ve always been the companies favourite, so now I get to contract myself out and continue helping people reach their language goals. Hopefully my own English improves too and I google definitions less...

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I love that I can love. Sometimes I get down about

I love that I can love. Sometimes I get down about not having someone to love or share my love with, but then I quickly realize how much I love my friends and how much I’ve improved and stepped up as a friend to myself and others.

Here’s a natural heart of love from nature today 💛 to those we still love but have lost, to those we love but are unavailable, and to those who share love with a close one, hold each other tightly 🙏

“just as Buddha compared to a high mountain the

“just as Buddha compared to a high mountain the state ‘in which there is no here nor there, no coming or going, but calmness and enlightenment as in an infinite ocean’ (the state of nirvana), likewise we read in Yashna that the mysterious haoma [immortality] grows on high mountains. And so, once again, we find the association of the idea of heights with the idea of that which is beyond human, mortal, and ephemeral”

•nirvana•immortality•spirituality•

— BC’s backcountry peak bagging with my good mate @solarus_cascadia —

“the way to greater confidence is not to reassur

“the way to greater confidence is not to reassure ourselves of our own dignity; it’s to come to peace with our inevitable ridiculousness. We are idiots now, we have been idiots in the past, and we will be idiots again in the future — and that’s OK. There aren’t any other available options for human beings” - works of Bruegel and Erasmus On Confidence

Thoughts?

I appreciate the simplicity of this. Confidence is lost through every moment of self perceived failure. Confidence is applied and worked on every day through different situations and interactions, especially when it has to do with something unfamiliar. I’ve always struggled with confidence and wanted to just HAVE it. Well it’s not a tangible thing to have. It’s a feeling and mental process by which we consciously choose to approach what scares us, with grace and strength. Yes? No?

I went for a walk the other day. I became self aware of my posture. I extended through my torso, gave my iliopsoas and transverse abs a stretch with a back extension, rolled my shoulders back, gently wobbled my head to find a neutral position over my shoulders, and looked straight ahead, not DOWN on my the ground or the phone. I felt as soon as I stood taller than usual, I felt more seen and acknowledged. But the first steps started with seeing myself and acknowledging myself. Only then, can I allow that gift from others. Because being seen by others isn’t a boost of self worth, it’s a gift of shared acknowledging energy.

Still with me?

Body language, words we speak to ourselves with, waiting, taking charge, eye contact are some ways we can bring more confidence into our lives with little tweaks. And who cares if what we say or do looks stupid, it might just put a smile on someone’s face, as they reminisce having done the same x years ago!

Photo is from one of my most memorable summits with @claire.e.wilson12

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