List Books » Healing Walks for Hard Times: Quiet Your Mind, Strengthen Your Body, and Get Your Life Back
Authors: Carolyn Scott Kortge
ISBN-13: 9781590307403, ISBN-10: 1590307402
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Inc.
Date Published: August 2010
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Carolyn Scott Kortge is an award-winning journalist, a former competitive race walker, and a cancer survivor. Kortge's Walking Well® program has been presented at medical centers, wellness events, survivor conferences, and health resorts and spas across the country. She is the author of The Spirited Walker: Fitness Walking for Clarity, Balance, and Spiritual Connection.
Sometimes life’s hurdles literally stop us in our tracks, sapping vitality and preventing us from participating fully in our own lives and the lives of those we love. Carolyn Scott Kortge recognizes that a key to joyous re-engagement with the world can be—just as literally—to get moving again. With a focus on walking for wellness, Kortge outlines a compassionate, practical program for navigating your way through life’s physical, emotional, and spiritual hard times.
Within the supportive framework of this eight-week walking program you set your own pace, taking steps that restore a sense of balance and order, even if you’re weighed down by the lethargy and loss of control that often accompany illness, depression, or trauma. Discover how to link mental focus with physical movement to create healing periods of stress release. Learn to match your steps with meditation in a way that clears a path through confusion. Move forward, literally, both in good times and in tough ones, with mental and physical steps that lead you away from fear or stress and guide you toward wellness and peace. Engage in a path to recovery that attends to not just the physical, but also acknowledges healing as an emotional, spiritual, and mental journey—a journey of survivorship.
Introduction ix
Starting Out: When You Walk through a Storm, Keep Your Feet on the Ground 1
Side Steps Walking and Wellness 14
Week 1 A Healthy Step 17
Side Steps Walking and Immune System 26
Walking Well Week One 29
Week 2 A Healthy Spirit 36
Side Steps Walking and Energy 44
Walking Well Week Two 46
Week 3 A Healthy Mind 54
Side Steps Walking and Mood 65
Side Steps Fifteen-Minute Mood Mender 67
Walking Well: Week There 69
Week 4 A Healthy Self-Image 76
Side Steps Walking and Muscles 86
Walking Well Week Four 88
Week 5 A Healthy Rhythm 96
Side Steps Walking and Joints 107
Walking Well Week Five 110
Week 6 A Healthy Attitude 116
Side Steps Walking and Brains 126
Walking Well Week Six 128
Week 7 A Healthy Heart 135
Side Steps Walking and Heart Health 145
Tool Talk Pedometer Basics 147
Walking Well Week Seven 150
Week 8 A Healthy Habit 158
Side Steps Walking and Feet 168
Walking Well Week Eight 172
Moving On Facing the Future, One Step at a Time 181
Side Steps Walking and Aging 189
Acknowledgments 193
Appendix Weekly Walking Logs 195
Notes 206
Resources 212
About the Author 214
Index 215