Persistence and the Giant Bamboo

Persistence and the Giant Bamboo

I wanted to quit today. Badly. And the sun hadn’t even risen over the mountain ridge yet. I was finishing my third speed interval on the high school track and I felt horrible. I’ve been running consistently for three years trying to get fast enough to complete a...
The Power of Movement in Healing from Trauma

The Power of Movement in Healing from Trauma

“[People] don’t get traumatized because they get hurt. They get traumatized because they’re left alone with the hurt.” This is how trauma expert, Dr. Gabor Mate explains the phenomenon of trauma. When left alone with the hurt, our nervous systems don’t know how...