Category: Healing
Non-Profits That Supported Dirt & Tears This Year!
This Giving Tuesday, I have the fantastic opportunity to share with you all the specific non-profits who have financially supported this business and my career this year, by either sponsoring an Adult... Read More
How To Improve Mental Health in Ski Towns
From free education, to open communication, to access to therapists, to employee events, we’ve built a holistic community approach. Through sharing what I’ve learned, I hope others will implement ... Read More
No More Talking About Sex
If you have not yet read my piece in Issue 7 of SISU Magazine “Lawful Bodies” titled Sex Is An Adventure, do so now. I’ll wait. Although the article itself is interesting, I feel tha... Read More
In Someone Else’s House Slippers
I am curious who is experiencing increased anxiety and why. My anxiety my concussion was due to the fact that I was still living in employee housing, directly on the mountain where my job was, surroun... Read More
Passionately Preoccupied
Elite adventure athletes – the climbers free soloing El Capitan, the alpinists summiting Mount Everest without oxygen, the backcountry skiers jump turning through sloughing chutes. They choose e... Read More
Fill the Kirkwood Valley with Love
A week from today, it will be one year since a particular wonderful man left this earth. His passing has touched the lives of thousands, reflected in the countless people showing love and support for ... Read More
Good food, good people, good vibes
Today is a holiday that stands out among the rest, to me. Not because we have family traditions, or because I clearly remember the very last Thanksgiving I had with my mom. No, neither of these ideas ... Read More
Mountain Slushies
Sitting here, in the chair I got nearly three years ago from my first ever housemate in Tahoe, staring at my (what feels like) huge laptop screen, with the windows framing National Forest behind, I fe... Read More![Not using your brain [Concussion Part 3 of 4]](https://i0.wp.com/dirtandtears.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/IMG_20170224_103821453_HDR.jpg?resize=542%2C340 "Not using your brain [Concussion Part 3 of 4]")