It started back in July. My work asked me to go on a business trip. This was the first business trip I had ever been asked to attend, so naturally it excited me. However, to get to the destination it meant I would have to fly, and since 2003 I had been afraid to fly. You might think that is silly, but it had been a fear built out of anxiety based on previous flight experience.
However, since I have been stepping out of my comfort zone lately, I accepted the challenge. The amazing thing is that I actually enjoyed the flight. It was fun! I had worked myself up into a tizzy because of a bad experience in 2003 when our flight had to abort 3 landing attempts. However, that wasn't what scared me the most. What scared me was the change in pressure which was always painful and hurt my ears. Further stories of friends that had ear drums burst did not excite me to get on a plane anytime soon. However, it wasn't really that uncomfortable. I just drink lots of water going up and when coming down. Problem solved.
At the end of July I received a call from my mother, asking me if I could help her share our superfood nutrition system with her friends in Newfoundland. For the past few years, my mother has been spending her summers in Newfoundland. If you have never been to newfoundland I would suggest you take a trip, it is breathtaking! I never expected I would end up in Newfoundland this summer.
Normally I would never have considered the possibility of going on a trip like this at the last minute, but the prospect of doing something so out of the ordinary was exciting! So I went, and it was amazing!
On the last day I was in Newfoundland, I had a brief whim that it would be fun to hike up gros morne. Normally I would have left such a thought on the shelf, but I made it a reality. An hour later I was at the starting point! I only had 4 hours, so I didn't have time to make it all the way to the top, but I would do it again in a second! Next year I plan to go back and finish the climb!
The symbolism of climbing the mountain is fitting for me this year. I feel like I have come so far from where I used to be a year ago. There is still much work to do in climbing the mountain, but the journey is exhilarating! I call it a taste of freedom! Freedom from my own self-imposed prison!
At the end of July I received a call from my mother, asking me if I could help her share our superfood nutrition system with her friends in Newfoundland. For the past few years, my mother has been spending her summers in Newfoundland. If you have never been to newfoundland I would suggest you take a trip, it is breathtaking! I never expected I would end up in Newfoundland this summer. |
| Climbing gros morne |
Normally I would never have considered the possibility of going on a trip like this at the last minute, but the prospect of doing something so out of the ordinary was exciting! So I went, and it was amazing!
On the last day I was in Newfoundland, I had a brief whim that it would be fun to hike up gros morne. Normally I would have left such a thought on the shelf, but I made it a reality. An hour later I was at the starting point! I only had 4 hours, so I didn't have time to make it all the way to the top, but I would do it again in a second! Next year I plan to go back and finish the climb!
The symbolism of climbing the mountain is fitting for me this year. I feel like I have come so far from where I used to be a year ago. There is still much work to do in climbing the mountain, but the journey is exhilarating! I call it a taste of freedom! Freedom from my own self-imposed prison!
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