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How Your Identity Can Help You Thrive In Adversity

Reading Time: 5 Mins “Yeah, But That’s Not Real Running.” It’s amazing how someone can say one thing and your brain translates it into something else. It was a conversation I was having with a friend of a friend about running. I knew he was a runner and I was asking him about how often he got out and which…

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An Awesome Challenge: How Two Women Liberated Themselves From Trauma

“I was too cowardly to kill myself but I hoped the trip might do it for me,” Julia Buhring said, reflecting on her record-breaking cycling trip round the world in 2012. She was referring to the depression she experienced after the fatal crocodile attack suffered by her explorer partner two years earlier. This bereavement, coupled with childhood experiences growing up…

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The Cactus Guide To Surviving and Thriving In Tough Times

In August 2017, the driest desert in the world, the Atacama in Chile, experienced an astonishing phenomenon. Within a few days of an untypical downpour, monotonous sand and rock were transformed into a colourful carpet of over 200 different kinds of flower. Photographers came from all over the world to record an event which normally takes place every six to…

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