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Spring Resilience

Spring Resilience

personal, stories, grief, vulnerabilityEmily DobbersteinMay 23, 2025grief, Hurricane Helene, trauma, mountain biking, healing, trauma healing, death, love, life and death, helene, resilience, disaster recovery, cancer, cancer survivor, spring, rebirthComment

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I poured myself into the pages of my first book. The Courage to Go was published on November 10th, 2020. I invite you to find yourself in it somewhere, and may it take you to where you need to go.

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This season (year? years? life?) has been an intense one. Here's "Spring Resilience," a story of one of the most intense weeks of my life that happened recently and some reflection from the belly of the burnout. Link in bio to read it on th

After the flu ruined my original plans, I had the perfect weekend celebrating my 30th birthday, filled with beautiful humans, good food, so much dancing, games, sun, & most of all, living in community.

We mostly were just being human together a

30 years in this body that continues to carry me through this beautiful, holy chaos of a life. I marked today as I do most transitions in my life -- with a dip in the river, no matter how cold. It reminds me to enjoy just being a creature for a momen

A poetic reflection and narrative at the intersection of fertility, endometriosis surgery, grief, and being a young adult cancer survivor.

"On Surrender," a comedic essay on the concept of surrender that came out of my recent first sensory deprivation float tank experience, is up on the blog today. Link in bio if you want a good chuckle or a gentle nudge for reflection.

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Befriended by Winter, a self-portrait while bushwhacking high on a ridgeline alone in the wilderness, surrounded by the song of silence, with a little unedited poem I typed quickly while leaning on this log before my hands froze and I needed to put

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