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Ironically, this blog almost didn’t get published because of self-doubt. Negative thoughts started popping up like, “Who are you to think people will want to read what you write?” and “It’s not good enough.” My “inner critic” was having a field day!

This may sound like an odd question. After all, if you’re reading this, I would have thought you’re alive and, in order to be alive, you need to be breathing to oxygenate your body and vital organs.

Before taking a break a couple of weeks ago, I was running on empty. I woke up every morning as tired as when I’d gone to bed, I was making mistakes I wouldn’t normally make, and I was working knee-jerk, letting emails and other people’s demands rule my day. Sound familiar?

Last week, I went to the Banff Mountain Film Festival 2015, a collection of short films of incredible human endeavours in the outdoors.
As a keen skiier, I was expecting lots of footage of powder hounds doing insane things in the snow. There was a bit of that (though with unexpected twists), but that was just one small element of it.