Tag: mental health

Anxiety and Your Trip to Cuba: A 5 Step Guide

  This November, I was finally able to make it to Cuba – a place that, during the Obama era, I wanted to visit before it became overrun…

So I’ve Been Tired Lately

  This August I stopped hiking. I also stopped climbing, running, writing and pretty much anything else that wasn’t sleeping and eating. It’s a strange thing that happens…

Depression is Harder Than Skiing

Those of you who know me know that I am not good at skiing. In fact, it’s only in the last couple of years that I have even…

Summer of Stone and Surf: Solo Hiking and Imaginary Cougars (or how I was not the girl from Wild)

  A blue bird had been flying ahead of me on the trail for a good few kilometres, flitting to the next branch whenever I got too close….

Bad Trip

Every attempt to explain this will be clumsy. There are stories that will never be graceful, but these are sometimes the ones that most need to be told….

Day 14: I’m Afraid of Everything

I’m a day off from halfway through this self-imposed daily adventure challenge, and it’s getting real. One of the side-effects of a good challenge is that it’s actually…

Day 9: Putting Allen Away

This weekend, I and all the other people of Vancouver decided to head to Tofino for the long-long weekend. I have written about Tofino here before, but there…