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Healing Walks for Hard Times
Quiet Your Mind, Strengthen Your Body & Get Your Life Back
An 8-Week Program
Carolyn Scott Kortge
 Carolyn Scott Kortge, author of The Spirited Walker: Fitness Walking for Clarity, Balance, and Spiritual Connection, is an award-winning journalist, cancer survivor and seasoned public speaker.
She has been featured as an authority on walking in publications including SELF Magazine, Family Circle, Woman’s Day, CURE, HEALTH, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsweek and Bottom Line. The Spirited Walker (HarperOne 1998) chronicles Kortge’s mid-life transformation from “klutz” to “athlete” as a competitive race walker. Two years after release of that book, Kortge was diagnosed with breast cancer. Out of her encounter with a life-threatening disease, she created the Walking Well® program and stepped before a new audience—a growing body of people who identify themselves as survivors. She has been a repeat presenter at health and wellness events including CURE National Forums for cancer patients and survivors and Life Beyond Cancer retreats sponsored by US Oncology.
In Healing Walks for Hard Times, Kortge draws on personal experience, interviews, and the metaphors of movement to provide a compassionate path of healing that guides readers to get their feet on the ground, taking steps that move them forward on a path of healing and recovery.
 Take your fitness walks to a deeper level with The Spirited Walker, a guide to exploring the inner dimensions of America’s favorite exercise. Author Carolyn Scott Kortge is a former Masters racewalker who holds bronze and silver medals from the USA Track and Field Association’s National Masters Championships.
In The Spirited Walker she blends athletic performance and meditative focus in an approach to fitness that puts care of the body on equal footing with care of the soul, for walkers of any age or fitness level.
www.spiritedwalker.com
CURE National Forum for Cancer Survivors and Supporters
Dallas, Washington DC, Denver, San Diego, 2004-2008
Golden Door Resort
Escondido, CA
Guest Presenter, Spirited Walker® Weeks, 2001-2011
Northwest Regional Women’s Retreat IX
United Church of Christ
Keynote Speaker & Walking Workshop
Kah-Nee-Tah Resort, 2010
St Tammany Parish Hospital
Covington, LA, Nov 2008
Rancho la Puerta Resort
Tecate, MX – Spirited Walker® Week, 2004-2006
“You were so awesome to walk with and I’m blessed to have met you. Thank you for what you do.”
—Terri Gaertner, Day of Caring, Denver
“Your inspirational and enthusiastic presentation was greatly appreciated by all. We look forward to working with you again.” —Bonnie Kleissle, Blessing Cancer Center, Quincy IL
“I found our walks to be one of the most rewarding experiences of the weekend. You are a good teacher, no, a great teacher!” —James Lasker, MD, Life Beyond Cancer Retreat
“Thank you, Carolyn, for being such an inspiration to the cancer world. What a role model you are for health.” —Darlene Falk, RN, Mending in the Mountains Retreat, Big Sky, MT
 One Step at a Time
“Sure, consistent walking can strengthen bones and muscles and keep expanding waistlines in check. But in Healing Walks for Hard Times, award winning journalist, former competitive racewalker and breast cancer survivor Carolyn Scott Kortge offers an eight-week program that focuses more on walking for wellness than walking for fitness.” Read the article
On the Walking Path to Survival
“Award-winning journalist Carolyn Scott Kortge was 58-years-old when, sitting alone in the sauna after a workout at her athletic club in Eugene, Ore., she decided to perform a routine breast exam. Kortge discovered a small, hard lump in her left breast and, that day, scheduled an appointment with her doctor. He was concerned enough to order an immediate lumpectomy.” Writer Anna Sachse interviews Carolyn about her personal cancer experience and the importance of walking in her recovery and survivorship. Read the article
copyright© 2010-2011 Carolyn Scott Kortge. All rights reserved.
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