Age Awesome
Vitality
Vitality is being alive even after a hard's day work, or a big week of training.
I write about adventures, essential living, books, and vitality. I write essays to help you, and myself, navigate change and build resilience on our paths to crafting curious, adventure driven lives.
Age Awesome
Vitality is being alive even after a hard's day work, or a big week of training.
Mental Health
Saulius is a long distance runner who took up the activity 12 years ago as a way to aid his mental health. After being diagnosed with generalized anxiety and depression he found that exercise was a huge aid in countering these illnesses. He soon began focusing on running as it
Mental Health
Spencer Newell is a lifelong endurance athlete who finds that being athletic is a way for him to push physical limits as well as help cope, and break, mental boundaries. Having been sober for 7+ years he shares his story of recovery to help give hope to others that might
Mental Health
Maria is a registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN) and a Washington State certified dietitian-nutritionist (CDN) with a Master of Science degree in Human Nutrition and Food Science. She is the creator and owner of Inspired Eating, a Health at Every Size® practice that helps people who feel anxiety and guilt around
Mental Health
Steven Gabriel Gnam is a professional photographer using the medium to explore and illuminate our connection to Nature. His work is a celebration of the wild, and encourages protecting the wildlands of the American West, with a focus on the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Northwest. Steven’s photographs are
Wayfinder
Ambitious Minimalism. Minimalism isn't about sacrificing ambition to live with less, or making oneself smaller to rebel against consumerism. The power of minimalism is the ability to have choice. I prefer the word essentialism over minimalism as it isn't as synonymous with "little" but
Wellness
Scott is a father, partner, ultra endurance athlete, law of attraction student, apprentice manifestor and business owner who longs for adventure and travel. Drawn to trail running, mountain and road cycling his daily goal is to find intention and a way to make time to do more of these self
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5 Healing Modalities That Could Change Your Life → Adopting an outlook that life is a continual opportunity for growth, progress, and learning is a brave choice. Whether you are mending a broken heart, facing the painful wounds of childhood, or addressing reoccurring patterns in your daily life, looking at life
Mental Health
Susan is a competitive trail runner and enthusiastic gravel cyclist who practices and teaches yoga, studies nutrition in hopes of coaching others, tries to keep up a writing habit, and works a couple of jobs to support her current living situation with her partner in Bend, OR. Though often wishing
Field Notes
It’s that time of the year. Everyone seems to be posting top photos, articles, and highlights of 2020. To be transparent, we don’t have much to share on that front. It’s been a rough year and we were less productive than we would have liked with Dirty
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This issue and the related article on Dirty Good was driven by a recent post, and reminder, by my brother Matt posted on Instagram. I believe most people reading this have a good sense of what Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is and how it can wreak havoc on many of
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It's okay not to be okay → Ultracycling legend Jack Thompson has accomplished some of the most difficult cycling feats on record. Last year, he completed four ascents of Taiwan’s monster Hehuanshan in succession. Earlier this summer, he rode three ‘Everests’ in a row on the highest cols
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Things have been interesting lately for certain. We've been staying put while trying to stay motivated despite most of our plans being canceled for the coming months. It's been good in some ways — forcing us to think out of the box and make our own adventures.
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The importance of living "dirty good" becomes especially evident in moments like these. Trying times force introspection and often allow for a clear perspective. These moments can also create panic and cloud one's judgment. When each day ends it's up to the individual to
Book Notes
To discern what is truly essential we need space to think, time to look and listen, permission to play, wisdom to sleep, and the discipline to apply highly selective criteria to the choices we make.” —Greg Mckeown What is essential to you? If you’re able to identify the essential,
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The Hard-Knocks Restaurant World Discovers Wellness → It's good to see the workplace is changing in favor of the workforce over profit margins. This piece highlights a few restaurants taking a better approach to keeping employees happy and healthy. Depression is estimated to cause +/- 200 million lost workdays