My friend Shelly reminded me today that sometimes resting is the hardest task of them all. What an accurate statement. Initially my physical recovery took up all my life. The beautiful part of it was that as I rested, my body did the all the work without my knowing- in a coma for 2 weeks …
Category Archive: Gina
Spread this day of Gratitude!
Gratitude has been a primary overwhelming emotion since I came-to following a 2 week semi-conscious state due to a tragic hiking fall in June 2009. From the moment I began to slip …to now, my story is chock-full of magic and miracles. Gratitude is the foundation on which I walk. The web of connection that …
In-Between
I’ve been listening to a CD that a friend gave me when I was living in New Zealand. It can be extremely enlightening to hear the lyrics of a particular song that I’ve heard many times before and suddenly key in on a particular line that greatly impacts my current emotional space and meets me …
MY 1st ADVENTURE since Half Dome!!!!!!!!!
September 2011 I learned heaps about myself in experiencing my first adventure since Half Dome! A friend and I went on a sea kayaking tour… it’s too long to tell the full story but in a nut shell – the water was icy cold, it was raining and my tail bone got reamed heading into …
My Half Dome Angels
In my last post, I shared about my heroes. Now I’d like to acknowledge my angels. My hiking fall occurred on June 6… my brother, Anthony, died on June 7th of a drug overdose four years previous. When the rescue team finally reached me, Jack, one of the Search and Rescue members, hung on the …
The Web of Human Connection
Miracle on the Mountain – Part 2 I was with 3 friends: Vanessa was hiking with me and doing her best to get us down safely, Tricia decided not to go up so she waited at the base of Half Dome with our backpacks and Peter hiked up and back quickly in order to rejoin …
Patience
Throughout my recovery process (…more of my story soon), I have witnessed miracle after miracle appear into my life at just the perfect time. Yet now I sit with a restless, eager desire to push past this in-between phase and move on to what is next. As I anxiously wait for life to unfold, I’ve come …











