Post TBI, with severe vision loss, I embrace the life I nearly lost conquering the mountains of my mind…. And currently a broken leg and shattered ankle.
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Feb 20
After a freak accident reshaped her life, runner Jill Wheatley searched for a way back to herself. The mountains became that path - rebuilding identity, movement, and hope one hard step at a time.
New Human Race #podcast
Listen here: mountainsofmymind.com/human-…
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10 Jun 2025
A traumatic brain injury fractured more than my skull, it fractured the autonomous, adventurous life I knew. The impact left me with minimal vision, life-threatening complications, and years of physical and emotional reckoning. Recovery was neither linear nor predictable.
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10 Jun 2025
In its shadow, I searched for meaning and found it in the mountains.
My recount in @AlpinistMag is not only a story of survival. It’s about what the mountains gave me when everything else fell away.
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10 Jun 2025
It highlights the strength of the human spirit and the ability to find purpose amid even life’s darkest crevasse.
Read the article here: bit.ly/43VNRlA
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26 Mar 2025
Ready for a pivot from heavy news toward insightful & inspiring stories?
Whether you're facing your own challenges or seeking inspiration, this #podcast will move you, challenge you
& remind you of the extraordinary potential within.
🎧 bit.ly/4j7PxP6
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19 Mar 2025
Proud and privileged to share my story among such legends
#climbing
19 Mar 2025
ALPINIST 89 | SPRING 2025 | MAPACHE STYLE
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Cover: Mary Catherine Eden squeezes up Gabriel (5.13), Zion National Park. [Photo] Keisuke Mizuno
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29 Jan 2025
How about a spark of inspiration amid dark times?
New @deliv_adventure
mountainsofmymind.com/jill-w…
#Resilience #inspiration #climbing #Podcast #climbing
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16 Jan 2025
A brief glimpse of the choices I have made in response to #traumaticbraininjury, which led me on life's toughest #climb.
Inspired? please share!
Our world could certainly use some bright, inspiring light.
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#climbing #MentalHealth #Inspiration #recovery
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23 Nov 2024
26 months. 7 hospitals. 3 countries. Life after Tragedy. youtube.com/shorts/MsV5YrruB… via @YouTube
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19 Nov 2024
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19 Nov 2024
New Podcast: After surviving a #traumaticbraininjury that left her 70% blind, Jill has risen above unimaginable challenges to achieve extraordinary feats—conquering some of the world’s most dangerous peaks & living a life fueled by resilience and courage.
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9 Oct 2024
Couldn’t be more proud of pivoting away from a scene that doesn’t align with my values….. Having found my purpose through adversity, the mountains are the classroom where I teach about possibility and perspective.
mountainsofmymind.com/
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4 Sep 2024
Letting go of what could have been & embracing what is, acceptance, the most direct path to inner peace, challenged me for years following #braininjury which resulted in loss of 70% of my eyesight. I struggled to cultivate inner balance through acceptance.
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29 Aug 2024
Daybreak Alberta with Paul Karchut - Aug. 24, 2024: Partially sighted Canmore-based mountaineer subject of new documentary cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-9…
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27 Aug 2024
Thankful for the lessons of impermanence #braininjury & #visionloss have taught me; as well, the value of vulnerability now seeing how I can help others work through their own mountains.
New Newsletter highlighting community & connection here in Canmore.
bit.ly/4g2lmI7Though
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25 Aug 2024
A glimpse into navigating life’s mountains ahead of the next year’s full length #Documentary and the next stop of the Bow Valley Film Tour: Daybreak Alberta with Paul Karchut : Partially sighted #Canmore-based mountaineer subject of new documentary.
bit.ly/4dS1sxC
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