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I'm Gail Straub and you're listening to She Explores. There's something there for me about the importance of sort of taking self responsibility and and stepping forward but I feel so

think like being able to do something alone kind of teaches you that self-reliance I mean on this

trip was the first time I put up a tent by myself and if my

mom and my boyfriend I do have a tendency to step back so I think there's something really

important about challenging oneself and putting oneself in a position where you have to kind of rely on yourself or find your own solution.

This is Hiranya D. Alwis Jassinger.

She hiked the Welsh Coastal Path solo in August and September.

So the Welsh Coastal Path it runs 870 miles along the Welsh coast, funnily enough.

Wales is really important to her.

Wales has been a really special place for me. I actually went as a kid with my parents and kind of stayed in youth hostels and went for sort of day hikes and things like that.

But I kind of had forgotten about that and then in my early 20s I got my heartbroken.

My mom gave me the money to get some climbing gear and I ran off to Wales to do a climbing course and it just felt like the beginning of healing after sort of a heartbreak and just the beauty of the place and the warmth of people and stuff.

So ever since then it's been my sort of run-off to place.

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