My husband and I started hiking together to 'find ourselves' after our last kid left home, but we've turned it into this competitive thing where we argue about routes and pace and who's more prepared, and somehow we're more disconnected in nature than we ever were at home.
More people experience this than they realize.
The very attempt to use wilderness as a mirror for self-discovery has become another arena for old relational patterns to play out.
“Where Are You with Wilderness and the examined life?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.