Hiking Your Feelings (Signed Copy)
NOTE: Your signed copy will ship after April 1. You will get an email update with a tracking number when it is on the way!
ABOUT THE BOOK
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 advocate and wilderness guide 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, she’s 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 throughout—all presented from Sydney’s supportive and self-effacing perspective—Hiking 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 Sydney’s supportive and self-effacing perspective.
HEALING POWER OF NATURE: Discover how getting outside—even just for a walk around the block—can 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.
Read the book. Do the work.
By the time you’re done reading the book, you’re going to be inspired to blaze your own trail to self-love. Fortunately, we’ve got a program for that! Our next class of Blaze Your Own Trail to Self-Love starts in April and we’re so excited to welcome you to our community of Trailblazers!
From April-September, you can look forward to cultivating a regular mindfulness practice through self-discovery exercises, community support, and weekly adventures (walks or hikes or other forms of movement that feel good to you). Each month, we offer a new workshop complete with supportive resources like meditations, worksheets, journal prompts, and more! Program themes include our self-reflection framework, embodiment, resiliency, confidence, compassionate communication, and more!
In 2024, we’re thrilled to add a new offering to the BYOT curriculum - our first hybrid online and in person program! Imagine getting to know yourself and your fellow trailblazers through six months of workshops and community connection meetings and our private social network. Just when you think you couldn’t possibly feel more supported and seen, it’s time for a four-day, three-night adventure in Glacier National Park. After hiking and hugging it out with the community IRL, we wrap up the year with our brand new Next Steps program, inspired by the Next Steps section in each chapter of Hiking Your Feelings. Through this three-month program, we’ll offer resources to help you integrate the lessons from the program and the experiences from the retreat and help you map out a plan for 2025 and beyond!