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We act as though our own learning process is shameful. I’m as guilty of this as anyone else. More, maybe. I watch other people train, but I don’t like it when they look at me, because I can’t do anything impressive. I don’t think I’m alone in that. I have seen other people (mainly women) […]

‘You can’t be what you can’t see’ was a phrase repeated a few times during the Women in Adventure Network event organised as part of ShAFF 2015. It resonates well with the idea underpinning Julie’s See&Do project, and I felt good to find myself among like-minded people, representing See&Do. The event kicked off with a […]

All photos by Laura Polischuik. Instagram @laurallisonpo Let me start by saying this: I don’t like labels and I try to avoid them, however recently in an attempt to express two sides of my training and bring awareness to the fact that women can be strong, graceful, feminine and badass all at the same time. I […]

On this day, a year ago I broke two ribs. Very stupidly, doing a (very small) precision jump from a tree to a tree. I lost my balance at landing and, instead of bailing, I tried to grab hands of the person who was there with me. Well, that didn’t really work out so I […]

Here’s a situation… Why wasn’t I pleased that everyone cheered for me?   Because nobody cheered for anyone else so it made me feel different. It made me believe that before completing the wall run, nobody has expected me to complete it. Which made me realise the following… I believe the biggest obstacle to women […]