To feel your feelings is to be like a sturdy tree, rooted deep in the earth, as you embrace each emotion like the changing seasons, allowing them to pass through you like the wind while staying grounded in your authentic self.
WHAT TO LOOK FORWARD TO:
🧭 Guided Self-Discovery
Every workshop features an interactive activity rooted in self-reflection, bonus mindfulness practices and resources (guided meditations, interviews with experts, book recommendations), journal prompts, as well as space to reflect on your hikes.
🧭 Hiking as a Mindfulness Practice
In each workshop, we give you a Mindful Miles Prompt - something to meditate on while you’re hiking solo, or to talk about in your group if you’re hiking with other members in the program. We encourage participants to go for a hike once per week to reflect on the lessons learned in the program. You pick your hikes/walks based on what you’re comfortable with, there is no mileage or difficulty requirement.
🧭 Community Connection
We’re all coming to the table with our own lived experiences and filters through which we see life, but one thing is for certain - we are more alike than we are different. By learning how to hold space for your fellow program participants, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to practice active listening.
When we slow down enough to hear what people are saying and give space for processing the information and understanding the messenger, we can oftentimes find some of our stories in the stories of others. This deepens our connection to self - affirming that we are not alone in our experiences - as well as our connection to each other.
ABOUT BLAZE YOUR OWN TRAIL TO SELF-LOVE
Welcome to Blaze Your Own Trail to Self-Love! This is where we lace up our hiking boots and venture deep into the wilderness of self-discovery, embracing an empowering mindset and the practices that will set your heart ablaze. Join Sydney and Barry Williams, your guides and fellow adventurers, as we navigate the rugged terrain of limiting beliefs, scale the mountains of self-compassion, and uncover the hidden treasures of self-acceptance. Together, we will forge a new path, igniting a fierce love for ourselves that will radiate through every aspect of our lives.
There's no right or wrong way to embark on this journey, the most important thing is to take the first step.
When you're on a hike, you don't magically appear at the summit, you get there one step at a time. Sometimes it's the hardest walk of your life. Sometimes you're skipping through a field of wildflowers. Either way, it can be transformational, but only if you allow yourself to have and reflect on the experience.
HEALING IS THE SAME WAY.
You don't arrive at the top of Healing Mountain, saved, rescued, recovered. On this Trail of Life, there will always be ups and downs, that much is certain.
Healing is a lifelong practice. There is no deadline to meet. This can't be done overnight. Really, all you can do is equip yourself with some tools to help you along the way.
And that should feel like a giant exhale.
If you're interested in signing up for the whole 2023-2024 program, click here!
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