Gail Muller > Quotes

“I had made enough excuses for shit men in my life to know when I was clutching at straws.”
― Gail Muller, Unlost: A journey of self-discovery and the healing power of the wild outdoors

“But it’s strange to absorb a medical condition like this so deeply into your being that it becomes just another part of you that you don’t consider even mentioning anymore. I would forget to flag it to people even when it was vital. I’d even forget sometimes to explain it as the reason for my slowness, foggy brain or irritability, and eventually ended up believing that I was those things, rather than being someone who was suffering from something. Don’t we all risk this with our silent struggles, masking our anxiety, depression or litany of physical pains – subsuming them into our very identity so we can’t tell where we start and end anymore? We shouldn’t confuse our identity with our suffering – you aren’t your illness, but you are sharing the same body, so you need to work with your condition, but you don’t ever need to let it define you.”
― Gail Muller, Unlost: A journey of self-discovery and the healing power of the wild outdoors

“I wasn’t fixed, mended and repaired. I wasn’t born-again freshly with no scars or gifted with a winner’s medal. I was simply… forgiven. By the forests, the people, and by the trail that had absorbed my tears of joy and sorrow for over 2,000 miles.”
― Gail Muller, Unlost: A journey of self-discovery and the healing power of the wild outdoors

“I truly realised, standing with a cider in hand and the sun on my face, discussing the next long trail I’d hike, that there are no limits except those we place on ourselves.”
― Gail Muller, Unlost: A journey of self-discovery and the healing power of the wild outdoors

“I realised standing in that moment that obstacles don’t stop coming, no matter what we achieve. We never entirely arrive if we keep pushing ourselves, because there are always new boundaries to push. This is no bad thing. Every time I had met my own limits, I had managed to step through them into something new, something unprecedented. It was reassuring to know that we will always find a new way to cope with adversity; we just need to be willing to fall forwards into trusting our own resilience and power.”
― Gail Muller, Unlost: A journey of self-discovery and the healing power of the wild outdoors

“We can do anything hard for 0.2 of a mile!”
― Gail Muller, Unlost: A journey of self-discovery and the healing power of the wild outdoors