Destiny: Sydney Williams, Hiking Your Feelings

Earth Ancients

Cliff Dunning

Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Science

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Turn your pain into power. Part inspirational memoir, part practical guide, Hiking Your Feelings offers a toolkit to unpack your “trauma pack” and step into the best version of yourself.

Join wellness and wilderness enthusiast Sydney Williams as she shares her healing journey from eating and drinking her feelings to hiking her feelings. When Sydney unexpectedly found herself diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, while grappling with grief and unresolved trauma built up over a decade, she set out on a quest to turn her pain into power. Two hikes across Catalina Island and eighty miles later, she learned to disconnect from distractions and reconnect with herself, all through the power of nature. Now, she’s encouraging others to get outside and blaze their own trail to self-love, turning buried traumas into healthy coping mechanisms. With affirmations, prompts, and reflection exercises throughout—all presented from Sydney’s supportive and self-effacing perspective—Hiking Your Feelings offers a toolkit to unpack your “trauma pack” and step into the best version of yourself.

INSPIRATIONAL & INSIGHTFUL: Follow Sydney as she reflects on her own journey from buried traumas and poor body image to acceptance, healthy coping mechanisms, and self-love.

RELATABLE & UNIVERSAL: Touches on themes and problems that many struggle with, including grief and loss, sexual assault, poor body image, career stress, and the stigma of diabetes, all presented from Sydney’s supportive and self-effacing perspective.

HEALING POWER OF NATURE: Discover how getting outside—even just for a walk around the block—can help you tune into your body better.

HIKE YOUR OWN HIKE: Learn to love yourself as you are now. Go from eating, drinking, working, or spending your feelings to hiking your feelings.

UNPACK YOUR TRAUMA PACK: Identify new activities and rituals that will allow you to choose love over fear and lift the invisible weight from your shoulders.

PROMPTS, ACTIVITIES & EXERCISES: Apply the lessons Sydney has learned to your own life, through thoughtful tasks at the end of each chapter.

Sydney Williams is the founder of Hiking My Feelings®, a nonprofit dedicated to the healing power of nature. Williams has 15+ years of communications experience and is a former competitive skydiver. She has been featured in HuffPost, Psychology Today, U.S. News & World Report, and on the SXSW stage.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. I'm going to be here. The Oh, Welcome to Destiny.
1:07.0	Destiny.
1:11.0	Now he's your host, Cliff Dunning.
1:14.0	Hey, how are you? Welcome. Come on in and have a seat. Let's talk.
1:20.0	You might have noticed that those of you in the United States, we celebrated the spring
1:26.9	forward or otherwise known as daylight savings time that was on Sunday the 10th, so the days are longer.
1:35.0	And I'll tell you why I liked that time of year.
1:39.0	I can go hiking. I can get out. My day is over. I can put my walking shoes on, my hiking boots on, and I can hit the trails, get the fresh air. And I got to tell you it's been a struggle to get out the last couple of months
1:58.3	really up to the end of November right until now it's been so inconsistent here in
2:05.2	Northern California because we've had this this rain and in if you're in
2:12.4	higher elevations we've had snow and serious snow.
2:18.0	And you know, this atmospheric river stuff, everyone's like, oh yeah, don't worry about it but I mean when it rains it soaks and
2:26.6	soaks the soil to the point where it's muddy and you got you know rolling hills that are sliding.
2:37.2	Yeah, landslides and even Los Angeles, the barren desert that Los Angeles has been suffering from the heavy rain.
2:47.0	So getting out has been a challenge and I'm really, really happy to welcome in daylight savings times because it's really
2:58.4	really critical that I get out. I mean I have a treadmill I have a treadmill, I have a stationary bike, I have free weights, but nothing beats
3:07.8	the healing effects of being in nature. And I really love it. Now, we got a few days to go.
3:19.0	Spring officially starts March 19th. Spring Equinox.
3:25.0	And that's really powerful energy.
3:29.0	And I think I mentioned this before.
3:31.0	Every seasonal change,
3:33.0	I'll do a three to five day fast.
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