First, stop for a moment. Make time for yourself, and then do what you can to cancel out the destruction.

Many U.S. citizens are giving up their right and their power to vote during this year’s election. Have you noticed this trend? Are you planning on voting?

October is the transitional time of death and rebirth as the summer fun ends and a new school year begins. However, many treat this time of change as a last chance in the calendar year to make big life changes. 

There are no guarantees of safety outside. The wild can feel unregulated and unpredictable at first, but like most things in life, there’s a pattern, and preparing for what you know, anticipating, and adjusting around what you don’t can take you places.

After the assurance from the hypnotherapist that I would not be hypnotized without my consent, I agreed to help. My random internship did expose me to the world of publishing, but it also helped satiate my interest in psychology while exposing me to knowledge about how to improve myself.

There is something about having to carry all that you’re going to need to live in the wilderness for days on your back that makes you question your entire life. Hiking heals, but backpacking takes it up a notch as you discover what is most important in life.

Civic Season is the time period between Juneteenth and July 4th, uniting our oldest federal holiday with our newest, mobilizing a movement to understand our past and shape our future.

Is Apple crushing what’s left of human creativity, or is their new ad a signal of the beginning of a new way of life in the digital world?

AI hasn’t taken over yet, but our computing machines are quickly recognizing patterns and preparing to think autonomously. In this age of advanced machine learning, how do we prepare for a world where computers learn to the point that they are making their own decisions?

Sometimes life seems difficult for seemingly no reason. However, keep in mind you can always shift your reality just by mindfully altering your perspective.

Every bit of nature counts. You can enjoy and commune in nature daily by just stepping outside and admiring the plants and animals around you. We don’t need to summit a mountain to enjoy ourselves outside. We just needed to be outside.

There are many times I find myself in difficult situations, but I become determined to see it through because I’ve already put in so much work into overcoming the obstacles.

The more you know, the more you have time to prepare for a situation mentally. That’s why I try to arm myself with knowledge.

For the last five years, on my birthday, I have ventured out into nature to write and meditate. It’s my own personal low-budget outdoor writing retreat that gives me a moment to reflect on my past and look to the future.  

Four years ago, I made a promise to myself that I would climb the towering giants in the SoCal 6 Pack of Peaks challenge. Last weekend, I crossed the highest peak in SoCal off my list by hiking another 20 miles in the San Gorgonio Wilderness.

It may have also been out of sheer stubbornness, but I dug deep to continue facing the challenge in front of me head-on every time the world threw another person out there in front of me.

Sometimes, you are faced with an unavoidable testing ground, and it’s in those situations that you have to take advantage of the difficult opportunity and just go for it.  

Hiking is just a therapeutic medium to allow me to run away from all of my problems just to come stumbling back to embrace change and complexity in order to fix my life.

I recently joined a challenge to hike 30 miles during the month of July to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Hospital. I chose to start off the challenge by summiting Mt. Baldy.

The unexpected experience of picking up a stray on the trail wasn’t new to me. It usually always involves trusting your life with and looking out for a complete stranger in a remote location outdoors.

April is a time for witnessing the beginnings of floral blooms. It’s the warm embrace of the emerging sunlight after a cold winter season. April also happens to be National Poetry Month.

You can follow whoever you want online and gain incite and encouragement from experienced professionals and wise teachers, but the people you look up to and your idols are still human.

Many are lulled into wanting to become an influencer as a legitimate career, but the majority have no idea what it takes to get there. 

My life now may be much less chaotic, but I’ve gained lessons and a renewed way of viewing life.

Our community had been given this narrative that Black people didn’t go outdoors. However, after entering the hiking community, I realized that belief couldn’t be farther from the truth.