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[QUOTE="nellpilgrim, post: 48863, member: 6546"] "When, if you were, were you afraid on the camino? How do you deal with it? Just how much do your feet hurt? How difficult is it? How long does it take before it gets easier? A week? Two weeks? Does it ever get easier?" Hi Hilda, Thank you for this post one forgets in all the post camino excitement just how much a part fear and anxiety played in the journey (well mine anyway) I was afraid of the Pyrenees. I was afraid I'd get lost- too afraid to trust the markers and myself. I was afraid of the weather -Snow, icy rain too little or too much sun. I was afraid of the strain it might put on a valued friendship and of what might happen then. I was afraid I wouldn't have a real 'Camino experience' I was afraid of what that would be. I was afraid of bedbugs and mosquitoes (and initially dogs) I was afraid of the entry into Burgos and Leon, of the Meseta, of the climbs up to Alto del Perdon, Foncebadon and O'Cebreiro. I was afraid my gear wouldn't work. I was afraid of my knees and feet getting knackered........... My feet hurt a bit whenever I started walking but after a bit they'd get numb-Camino analgesic? It's not that it's difficult its just that it's not easy. But it's 'not easy' in a way that seems, for want of a better word, 'natural' (I was going to say "like childbirth" but decided not to got there :shock:) We were unfit and I was overweight so it never 'got easier' as such. But we did learn that when we took the energy we put into bitching and worrying and put into the next simple action/task-like take next step, drink more water or tend to blister on big toe- instead that made things 'flow' a bit better. Frances 'got this' much faster than I did so I needed a couple of revision sessions en route...which I got . The Camino is like a lens that re-focuses any anxiety, fears and all your resources onto the simple equation of 'Walking, eating,(praying?) sleeping', and one can't over complicate that no matter how hard one tries (I tried pretty hard :oops: ). It sabotages complexity and refuses to be 'managed' by ones hopes or fears. Anyway Hilda I think you are 'Bravey McBrave of McBrave street' for sharing your story, being so open with your fears and above all by having another 'go'. Nell [/QUOTE]
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