Success Stories
Your Story Can Make An Impact
Many of you have shared your stories privately with me, through direct messages, emails, phone and in person conversations. You are my inspiration and my superstars. Hearing the personal challenges you’ve overcome, how you felt before making a change, the positive transformation you’ve experienced and your outlook for the future are all inspirational.
Now is your opportunity to share your Success Stories with the Freewheeling Kiwi Community so that in turn we may all be inspired by you.
By sharing your story, you’ll help shape the narrative as to who spends time in our beautiful outdoors, you’ll influence others in a positive way and lift up our whole Freewheeling Kiwi Community.
Your story will make an impact to the lives of others and this can only be good for us all. ❤︎
Be inspired by our Feature Success Story
Who is this for?
Freewheeling Kiwi’s Community strength comes from the thousands of followers who just like you, have been inspired and then have taken action, one step at a time.
Telling YOUR story is a powerful tool to create change.
Whether you’re…
An Armchair Traveler
Who’s hit a very real challenge and would love to spend more time in nature, helping you to heal faster and lower your stress levels
A Solo Traveler
Who’s overcoming the doubts of heading into the great outdoors alone, eager to benefit from natures blessings and bypassing the sceptics completely
A First Time Explorer
With BIG goals and ambitions and is ready to take on the world, one adventure at a time
You’re in the right place
Your stories and willingness to share your stories will in turn inspire others to spend time in nature.
For some of you, it may be the first time you’ve ventured out in years and are excited to have now walked to your local park. For others, it could be an overnight camp with the kids in the backyard. Yet again, you may have taken up bike riding having not been on a bike since you were a child.
There’s no right or wrong, this is not a competition, it’s about all of us sharing positive stories and shifting the dialogue so as to encourage everyone to get outdoors in whatever shape or form our adventures take us.
Will you share your story with the Freewheeling Community?
Feature Success Story
Below you’ll find our Freewheeling Kiwi Success Stories that have been kindly shared by members of our Community.
Each story is unique and speaks of the personal challenges, the changes in outlook and the positive transformation that the writer has experienced throughout their life or a portion of it while being reflected against the backdrop of spending time in nature.
Our guest writers are people just like you with a love for the outdoors though with a willingness to share their personal journey so that readers such as yourself, may learn, grow, be inspired and take action in your own life.
While reading these special stories, I’ve laughed, I’ve cried and I’ve been in awe. I’ve felt the writer’s pain and struggles and their many triumphs.
I’ve metaphorically stood beside them on those summits and thought to myself, yes, it was a hard climb, but the view from up here was absolutely worth it!
Bouncing Back From Adversity
This place feels otherworldly, a barren rocky landscape, and I sit and linger for a long while by the Stag Saddle signpost taking it all in. My heart feels so full even if my tummy constantly feels hungry these days.
I’m so proud to have made it this far. Being alive to truly live and experience all of this is such a gift and I don’t take it for granted. My struggles through the valleys pale when I’m standing on the summits. I stretch my arms out wide embracing it all. I love being out here!
Jennifer S Success Story
Closest I came to dying I think in bush, but I’m 78 yrs old now. None of the mod tech that youngsters have now-a-days. I started at a tramping club and yes have been mislaid (lost) in Whirinaki Forest and eventually helicoptered out. We sure did see more of that wonderful area tho than most do!
Gavin D Success Story
We were in the Kaimais and got caught out in really bad weather. Cloud was so thick and had very little visibility. Ended up crawling over a log to cross a river in flood to get to a hut. Not our finest hour but it turned out OK.
Take Action Now
For many of us, it’s not easy to open up, to be vulnerable and to share our private thoughts perhaps even revisiting past challenges.
I know from my own experiences however that writing or journalling is also cathartic. Self-reflection through writing helps to improve our mental well-being and emotional processing and I recommend it to all.
Take a moment each day to write down your thoughts, whether or not you share them with anyone else is incidental, what’s important is that you do this for yourself.
If you do feel able of course consider Sharing Your Story with the Freewheeling Community 💚