100 Days in Mexico – Three ways to read
The Episodes – A girl a truck, a surfboard and a search for something more.
Follow Melanie as she recounts the story of her childhood in the evangelical church. Her learned guilt and shame surrounding her body eventually lead to clinical bulema and a series of destructive relationships. Each episode is the story of a 100 day solo road trip down the pacific coast of Mexico where Melane works through the past, learning to be bigger by surfing bigger.
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Melanie’s Story
Melanie is a creature of challenge. Some challenges she chose. Others were chosen for her. All of them combined conspired to forge an indomitable will and ignite a spirit of adventure and discovery.
A challenge that Melanie chose for herself—at the age twenty-nine—was to abandon a comfortable corporate job in the software industry. Leaving behind a steady paycheck and a well-lit career path, she embraced the uncertainty of entrepreneurship. She followed her passion for yoga to open her own yoga studio. What followed were a multiplicity of roles within her business and in local politics…and a multiplicity of challenges that life had chosen for her.
Divorce from a relapsed addict. Struggle with an eating disorder. A genetic surprise that brought with it the shadow of cancer. The crushing weight of it all threatened to suffocate her.
Until the morning Melanie woke in the grip of a new determination. To be more than the subject of her unchosen challenges. To live, more and bigger. To choose her own challenges once again, and be the hero of her own story.
With a truck full of surfboards and bikinis, Melanie embarked on a solo journey across 2500 miles of Mexican coast, in search of the biggest waves of her life. In the hunt, she found far more than those waves, and far more than she’d ever imagined.
Melanie moved from Michigan to San Diego in 2008 to attend graduate school at San Diego State University where she studied mathematics. After three years as a software rep she left the industry to start a yoga studio. When burnout caused a health crisis, Melanie rearranged her life to travel and surf. She holds certifications as a yoga teacher, teacher trainer, nutritionist and personal trainer. She is currently out there in the world, where she spends her days surfing, writing and trying to learn what life has for her.
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