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Days 236 to 241 Slowing Down And Reconnecting With My Dad’s Spirit

By on September 29, 2012 in Confidence and Courage, Full-On 365, Love and Relationships

I like my hands now. I didn’t always used to. They were never long and dainty like the models’ hands that I saw in dishsoap ads growing up. They weren’t sinewy and powerful like the climber chicks’ I spent years hanging out with, either. They were…hands.  Didn’t hide ‘em. Didn’t flash ‘em. Didn’t think they [...]

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Days 78 to 82 – Confessions of a Perfectionist

By on April 22, 2012 in Confidence and Courage, Full-On 365, Mindset and Spirituality, Travel Adventure & Outdoors

I know you all have seen photos that I’ve posted about backcountry skiing trips in Alaska and Colorado etc. What you may not know is that I’m relatively new to skiing. I’ve owned skis for a long time…but actually using them on a regular basis has somehow eluded me. I think it is that “fear [...]

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Days 74 to 77 – Alaskan Tidbits

By on April 17, 2012 in Full-On 365, Travel Adventure & Outdoors

Alaska has done it again. Won my heart. Lifted my spirit. Grounded me in my body and my being and to this earth. This weekend we were going to go to Portage Glacier for an adventure. But it rained (and blessed be the friends and thei iPhones with good reception that let us know what [...]

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Days 48 and 49 – Being Oversensitive Sucks

By on March 20, 2012 in Confidence and Courage, Love and Relationships, Mindset and Spirituality, Travel Adventure & Outdoors

Yesterday was a mellow day of sleeping, fixing up the yurt, then eating pizza with friends as we watched footage from our epic weekend (see below). There was such an awesome sense of community all weekend, and it was nice to fade into the rest of the week with a nice eve with amigos. It [...]

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Days 44 to 47 – Rest and Backcountry Skiing (not an oxymoron!)

By on March 19, 2012 in Confidence and Courage, Love and Relationships, Travel Adventure & Outdoors

Yeehaw! When you need to rest, rest. It’s so much easier living full on when your have the energy to do it. I did NOTHING Days 44 and 45 except sleep in, get a massage, read, and drive to a sweet backcountry Alaskan powder hut. I went to bed those nights and slept HARD. The [...]

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Day 1 – Living Full On, Every Day, for a Year

By on February 1, 2012 in Confidence and Courage, Full-On 365, Travel Adventure & Outdoors

Hey hey! Here I am. Starting Day 1 of this epic challenge, and I am a bit nervous – yet also super psyched! Today I lived full-on by getting this blog up. Taking on this challenge acknowledges – very publicly – that I believe it IS possible to have at least one moment, every day, [...]

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