blissful hiker ❤︎ inspiring you to hike your own hike
Long-distance backpacker Alison "Blissful Hiker" Young has walked over 13,000 miles on six continents including New Zealand's Te Araroa, Europe's Pyrenean Haute Route, Africa's Drakensberg Traverse and the Pacific Crest Trail in the United States.
In a series of personal essays coupled with found sound, this podcast explores her journey of self-discovery as a middle-aged titanium-reinforced cancer thriver, sharing the sometimes unglamorous but vital truth about empowerment, inspiring others to blaze their own trails in this journey we call life.
blissful hiker ❤︎ inspiring you to hike your own hike
Breast Cancer Trail: Bye, Bye Boobs
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alison young
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Season 5
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Episode 129
Blissful begins her cancer journey looking back at her life as a woman.
- Blissful spends the days before a bilateral mastectomy gathering together a team of supportive women who have been through the procedure.
- She also walks, hikes, bikes, swims, kayaks all in an effort to calm herself – or running away from panic.
- In looking forward to being flat-chested and "ultra-light", Blissful reminisces on becoming a woman from "sprouts" to a "mean girl" to a middle-aged woman saving her own life.
MUSIC: Suite by Ernst Krenek and Introduccion y Allegro by Carlos Guastavino as played by Alison Young, flute
