How Walking Saved My Marriage

Over the course of 773,770 steps, I learned to walk with, not away from, my problems

Kerala Taylor
Human Parts
Published in
10 min readSep 21, 2023

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At first, I tried to outwalk my anger. Maybe if I walked fast enough, I could leave it behind. Maybe if I walked fast enough to somewhere beautiful, I could leave it behind and bury it for good and return home a better, calmer, more merciful version of myself.

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Kerala Taylor
Human Parts

Award-winning writer. Interrupting notions of what it means to be a mother, woman, worker, and wife. Subscribe: https://keralataylor.substack.com