Gail Muller

“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