Free: The Podcast
Want to open up your ability to design your life in a conscious way? Wish you could create more personal freedom by doing more and being more of what you love? Join Megan Shumaker on a quest to discover how to turn life on its head and pivot in a completely different direction to be able to live more in line with your own personal values instead of blindly following societal expectations. You will be introduced to multiple ways of living and explore both your inner and outer worlds in order to live in a way that serves your highest good while still taking care of each other and the natural world. In this podcast, each episode is an in depth exploration into topics ranging from living off the grid to how we make decisions...from eccentric money management methods to releasing past life trauma. We’ll investigate anything that holds us back whether it be in the areas of health, wealth, relationships or time to uncover what one truly wants in order to live a life with more freedom, fun, adventure and wonder.
Free: The Podcast
Exploring identity and independence with Christine Reed, author of Alone In Wonderland.
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Megan Shumaker
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Episode 7
#007 Meet Christine Reed - hiking guide, backpacker, rock climber, trail runner, van lifer and author. Her new book, Alone in Wonderland, on the surface is a story about her solo thru-hike of the Wonderland Trail around Mount Rainier. In truth, it’s about so much more. In this episode we discuss:
- How discovering an Appalachian Trail forum led this unlikely outdoor enthusiast to long-distance backpacking in order to reinvent herself.
- Her challenges with asserting her independence while also searching for connection and a sense of community.
- The meaning of female independence and how her view became vastly different than what she was taught.
- Her insights on the loss of her mother and establishing a separate identity while also embracing and appreciating the ways her mom is still present in her own characteristics.
- How a newly diagnosed heart condition gave her a new perspective of her body and a level of self-acceptance and self-compassion for what she has been able to accomplish.
- How long-distance hiking can be a way to face yourself, be observant of your thoughts and elicit a full spectrum of emotions.
- How the book Alone in Wonderland was written for the reader so that they can feel less alone in their experience of being alone.
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