Hiking Your Feelings : Blazing a Trail to Self-Love

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Turn your pain into power. Part inspirational memoir, part practical guide, Hiking Your Feelings offers a toolkit to unpack your trauma pack and step into the best version of yourself.

Join wellness and wilderness enthusiast Sydney Williams as she shares her healing journey from eating and drinking her feelings to hiking her feelings. When Sydney unexpectedly found herself diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, while grappling with grief and unresolved trauma built up over a decade, she set out on a quest to turn her pain into power. Two hikes across Catalina Island and eighty miles later, she learned to disconnect from distractions and reconnect with herself, all through the power of nature. Now, shes encouraging others to get outside and blaze their own trail to self-love, turning buried traumas into healthy coping mechanisms. With affirmations, prompts, and reflection exercises throughoutall presented from Sydneys supportive and self-effacing perspectiveHiking Your Feelings offers a toolkit to unpack your trauma pack and step into the best version of yourself.

INSPIRATIONAL & INSIGHTFUL: Follow Sydney as she reflects on her own journey from buried traumas and poor body image to acceptance, healthy coping mechanisms, and self-love.

RELATABLE & UNIVERSAL: Touches on themes and problems that many struggle with, including grief and loss, sexual assault, poor body image, career stress, and the stigma of diabetes, all presented from Sydneys supportive and self-effacing perspective.

HEALING POWER OF NATURE: Discover how getting outsideeven just for a walk around the blockcan help you tune into your body better.

HIKE YOUR OWN HIKE: Learn to love yourself as you are now. Go from eating, drinking, working, or spending your feelings to hiking your feelings.

UNPACK YOUR TRAUMA PACK: Identify new activities and rituals that will allow you to choose love over fear and lift the invisible weight from your shoulders.

PROMPTS, ACTIVITIES & EXERCISES: Apply the lessons Sydney has learned to your own life, through thoughtful tasks at the end of each chapter.

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Sydney is here to share her hard-won, heartfelt, and wildly entertaining lessons from the trail to help guide you toward deeper self-knowledge and peace of mind. -- Gale Straub, author ofShe Explores: Stories of Life-Changing Adventures on the Road and in the Wild
Like any good hike, this book is an adventure. Sydney beautifully takes us on a journey with her as she hikes her feelings and discovers what it means to be whole again. -- Anastasia Allison, founder of Kula Cloth