Still Time for Joy
Still Time for Joy features practical advice for weathering life's storms, and inspiring stories of resilience.
Host Sandra Levine interviews experts on caregiving, trauma, grief, and other intense challenges to provide a road map for survival. Heroes and healers, adventurers and innovators encourage you to pursue more self-care, reflection, connection, and fun—and your own unique and joyful purpose.
Sandra is a television producer, filmmaker, and speaker who spent 20 years as a caregiver, first for her husband Michael, who had a brain injury, and then for her mother Dorothy, who had Alzheimer's Disease. She created this show to share lessons learned from those experiences to help you get through difficult times, too.
Still Time for Joy is also available as a video podcast on YouTube @SandraLevineProd
Still Time for Joy
Women Find Hiking Buddies Online Leading to More Outdoor Adventures & Friendships
Spending time walking outdoors in the woods has so many benefits, for both our physical health and mental well-being. But many women are not comfortable hiking alone, so they miss out on this simple and affordable opportunity for both better health and more joy.
Alexis Liastro formed the Facebook group “Ladies Only! NJ Hiking Group” in late 2020, to help connect women who love hiking. To date, there are nearly 25,000 members in the group, encouraging and empowering one another to get out in the woods more often.
Members create an event on the page, listing the date, location, and additional details of a planned hike, and other women join the outing. A huge added bonus: countless new friendships have formed, that exist both within and outside the woods.
There are similar online groups that help hikers find hiking buddies around the country and around the world.
Special thanks to Alexis Liastro and Sonya Noyes for contributing photographs for this production.
Ladies Only! NJ Hiking Group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/814745252688011
Sandra Levine Productions: https://sandralevine.com/
Watch Still Time for Joy as a video podcast on YouTube @SandraLevineProd
