Last week, I was mentioning to someone that when I was in the midst of my panic attacks back in 2017, I began noticing that my normally relaxing hiking trips no longer worked! After a lot of self work, I've been hiking again and finally finding that serenity I normally experience while in the woods. I believe that serenity isn't something that you escape to, rather its a state of mind that you achieve after putting in a lot of work. Hence, I could only enjoy the outdoors when I was able to tame the anxiety. If I used the outdoors as anxiety relief, eventually the impact subsides and I was left "going through the motions", unable to appreciate the beauty around me.
Last year I decided to put a page together so I could catalog my hikes, both past an present. When you see them all together on one page, it's a pleasant reminder of how dedicated I've been to my outdoor explorations. I have ton of hikes to upload, so its going to be a process to get them all on. In addition, I've been contributing to the Hiking Project - which is a noble effort to document the trail systems that no one else knows about!
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