Cheryl Strayed's Journey

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There are times that people feel the need to have a transformation in their life. They could be feeling disorienting, in pain and it could be difficult to manage. Cheryl Strayed had an empty soul she felt devastated from all she had experience in her life. She was seeking for an opportunity to self discover her soul and have a renewal in her life which lead to a transformation. Cheryl Strayed’s physical and spiritual life begins to change when she takes the journey to the Pacific Crest Trail. The biggest transformations to Cheryl Strayed experiences on her hike was her physical resistance, the healing to her mother death, she began to appreciate herself and learned to forget her self about what wrong choices she took.
The first change was physical,

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