173. Waylon Lewis w/ Melanie Sue Hicks on Trauma, Travel as Service, & her book “Incongruent.”

Waylon talks with author Melanie Sue Hicks about trauma, travel as service, and how one helped her heal the other. She discusses it fully her in her book, Incongruent: Travel, Trauma, Transformation.

Melanie is a longtime supporter of Elephant. Read an excerpt of Incongruent here, on Elephant Journal.

Waylon: “So, you’re telling the story of the travel, but how does trauma figure into that?”

Melanie: “Each stop, each village along the track, harkens back to some sort of life story of mine. Some of them were traumatic, and it was a way to heal from trauma—travel experiences and what life lessons they taught me. I’ve been traveling and doing service work for 20 years, maybe more like 30. So I had all these amazing stories to choose from, and I chose the ones that seem to naturally fall in line with something from the village or trek.”

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