blissful hiker ❤︎ inspiring you to hike your own hike
Long-distance backpacker Alison "Blissful Hiker" Young has walked over 13,000 miles on six continents including New Zealand's Te Araroa, Europe's Pyrenean Haute Route, Africa's Drakensberg Traverse and the Pacific Crest Trail in the United States.
In a series of personal essays coupled with found sound, this podcast explores her journey of self-discovery as a middle-aged titanium-reinforced cancer thriver, sharing the sometimes unglamorous but vital truth about empowerment, inspiring others to blaze their own trails in this journey we call life.
blissful hiker ❤︎ inspiring you to hike your own hike
Life is Wide
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alison young
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Season 7
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Episode 144
Blissful's Great-grandma Emma used to say, "Life may be short, but it’s also wide."
- It’s a shift in perspective – from focusing on limitations to exploring possibilities, from dwelling on obstacles to finding creative detours.
- It would take walking the entire length of New Zealand on the Te Araroa for her to understand what Emma was talking about.
- The first lesson came in taking the risk to just go and do this thing – even in middle age –leaning into the unknown.
- Risk taking is good for us not because it promises a perfect life, but because it widens the journey ahead of us.
MUSIC: "Poema del Pastor Coya" by Angel Lasala as played by Alison Young, flute and Vicki Seldon, piano.
