How to use the desert as a teacher: 4 questions to ask before you leave

Are you seeking to escape your current situation or to enhance it? The desert can help you answer this question before you leave home; why go now when you still have work to do here?

“Wherever you go, there you are.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn

The desert provides us with lessons we can observe in our daily lives, but the last thing I want is to send you running elsewhere in search of peace. The key to thriving during a desert vacation or life is to understand the preliminary lessons before you

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Dara Laine Murray

I am a multi-passionate sobriety writer on Medium. My day job is as a Director of Research at a nonprofit, so I write stories about being sober + stats.