Walking around during the course teaching, or sitting in the back of the room while they're teaching, on a couch with my neck propped up for support, trying to not tell them that I'm the perfect example for their class. And I am now, after the Wilderness First Aid course, so aware of how I could have done things differently, even on so many previous trips. I'm listening to myself, thinking, writing this, wondering how do I avoid the pit of shame or depression?
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:13
There's just room for living life forward in a way that you say, I've learned this and that. Let me apply this to this and that, and having compassion and being sort of submitting yourself to something that's more powerful than you while also gaining more agency in that belief. So there's that duality of, like, knowing what is so over overwhelming and true and hard, but also knowing what you can move forward with based on the knowledge you're gaining in these reflections
J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisu · 3:00
Hi. It's JL. Merry Christmas. From what I was listening to, it sounds like this is how it landed for me. The injury you had, the experience you had and the resulting injury aid the process of assessing and figuring out the best resources to assess the source of your pain and discomfort
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Sport Barber
@Sport · 1:47
But for the first time I could see all that clearly. And I was also clear about this, that my life is too short to be given it over to fear or potentially too short as evidenced by my experience. So I want to be given over to love and be making decisions from there instead of fear. So is not doing this or that because I am afraid or because I was afraid? Is that the story I want to tell one day? H*** no
Sport Barber
@Sport · 0:49
Thank you, jail. And Merry Christmas to you too. I really appreciate the depth at which you listen to my story. Hearing and seeing the multiple dimensions of the pain I was in for most of my life, this would have been a place for me to hide, covering myself with the pain or the story, maybe partially or mostly defining me like a victim. But I was so excited to go through this with an entirely different energy, using new tools and a heightened self awareness