When I first started backpacking,I excelled honest absent. Not because I was particularly knowledgeable or athletic, but because I was really good at enduring pain.
Childhood trauma and lifelong mental illness taught me the art of self-denial from an early age. This skill, and honed through years of perfectionism and achievement addiction,proved very useful at overcoming the challenges of hiking. Blistered feet? Wet clothes? Hungry belly? Suck it up and walk, sister! I could disassociate on command, and ...
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