Campground Hosting Almost Killed Us

About this episode

Carmen and Jim share their challenging experience with campground hosting and the lessons learned from it.

First, you should know that we're okay! Second, the beauty of our campground hosting adventure is that we got out of it alive – but it was a close one. After fourteen months of pain, denial, healing and stewing over what could have been, we are finally able to share our sorry work-camping story without having to post a red FOUL LANGUAGE warning at the top of the page. We'd hoped to just keep it quiet, move on, nurse our wounds, wash our mouths out with soap and pretend it never happened. But trauma doesn't work that way. If you don't "go there" it will come and get you. If what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, then we hope our story helps others.

People in this episode

Hosts: Carmen Beaubeaux, Jim Beaubeaux

Topics covered

• campground hosting
• work-camping
• trauma
• healing
• adventure

Keywords

• campground hosting
• work-camping
• trauma
• healing
• adventure
• pain
• denial

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