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Walking is Fitness

How Walking Helped After A Traumatic Loss

Walking is Fitness

Dave Paul

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8597 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Walking can deliver a lot of powerful benefits...even during the most challenging seasons of life. During today's ten-minute walk, Dave shares Veronica's story.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Recently, Veronica left a really encouraging comment, and this comment is going to be more encouraging

0:07.2

for some than for others.

0:09.8

Hi, I'm Dave.

0:10.8

Welcome to Walking is Fitness, a daily podcast.

0:14.6

Every day, we take a 10-minute walk together.

0:16.9

This podcast provides a little added motivation to get out the door, especially on those days when you don't feel like it.

0:23.6

Today's 10-minute walk starts right after this.

0:30.6

It is a breezy day in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

0:35.6

I am walking along an access road that is near the Myrtle Beach International Airport.

0:42.3

And in a moment I'm going to turn around and actually head back in the other direction and we'll be facing the ocean.

0:50.3

I can't see the ocean, but I can actually, in fact I'll turn around now, I can actually see some of the ocean. I can't see the ocean, but I can actually, in fact, I'll turn around now,

0:55.0

I can actually see some of the hotels that are right on the ocean. They're probably about a mile

1:02.8

away, but I'm looking across the airports, so there are no trees here, but then on the other

1:08.9

side of the airport, there's a line of trees,

1:11.2

and then I can see the tops of those hotels over the tree line.

1:15.7

And I imagine there are folks right now in front of those hotels walking along the beach.

1:24.5

Maybe some. It's fairly early in the morning. The sun is up. I imagine there are some who have already got their chairs in place, their umbrellas planted, and they're prepared to spend the day at the beach. That's always fun.

1:40.3

Veronica writes, I went through and survived, a traumatic loss in 2015.

1:48.0

Everyone said, walk.

1:51.0

And I truly could not at the time. I could barely get out of bed.

1:56.0

Ten years later, now, I walk daily in all kinds of weather even when the temperature is

2:03.0

zero I just layer up wear a face mask hat and a hat over that and my hood

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