blissful hiker ❤︎ inspiring you to hike your own hike
Long-distance solo hiker Alison Young knows hard-core backpacking as few people do. With footprints on six continents and memories from trails like Te Araroa and the Pacific Crest, she is a member of a very small and prestigious group.
In a series of personal essays coupled with found sound and her own flute playing, this podcast explores her journey of self-discovery as a middle-aged woman, 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
Life is Wide
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alison young
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Season 7
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Episode 144
Blissful's Great-grandma Emma used to say, "Life may be short, but it’s also wide."
- It’s a shift in perspective – from focusing on limitations to exploring possibilities, from dwelling on obstacles to finding creative detours.
- It would take walking the entire length of New Zealand on the Te Araroa for her to understand what Emma was talking about.
- The first lesson came in taking the risk to just go and do this thing – even in middle age –leaning into the unknown.
- Risk taking is good for us not because it promises a perfect life, but because it widens the journey ahead of us.
MUSIC: "Poema del Pastor Coya" by Angel Lasala as played by Alison Young, flute and Vicki Seldon, piano.
