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Lightening Trauma's Invisible Weight on the Trail: Sydney Williams

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Sydney Williams is more than a weight loss story, or an outdoors person with Type II diabetes, or a trauma survivor. But hiking the Trans-Catalina trail the second time helped her put it all together.

Women featured in this episode: Sydney Williams

Hosted by Gale Straub

In this episode, you'll hear

  • How Sydney hiked the Trans-Catalina Trail in Southern California two times: the first time it was the hardest thing physically, the second it was the hardest emotionally
  • Why a diagnosis of Type II diabetes was the best thing that ever happened to Sydney
  • The four things Sydney learned to manage when monitoring her blood sugar
  • Why stress can be so hard to regulate
  • How Sydney started hiking her feelings rather than eating and drinking her feelings
  • What was revealed to her about her past trauma on the trail
  • How hiking has helped her own her story
  • Why Sydney is going on a speaking tour in southern California to share her experience and where you can hear her talk
  • The lost potential of women due to sexual violence
  • How the outdoors helped Sydney coax healing from the trauma she carried

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    Resources:

    • Sydney Williams: Hiking My Feelings Website & Instagram
    • Sydney Williams: Personal Instagram
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        Music is by Lee Rosevere, Kai Engel, Josh Woodward using a Creative Commons Attribution license.

        Music is also by Great Lands

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