Beth Rodden

[Beth Rodden @bethrodden]

@laurenfleshman @outsidemagazine Thank you! ❤️

[Outside Magazine @outsidemagazine]

At almost every photo shoot, I’d be asked to take off my shirt. “Can you suck in your stomach, Beth?” the photographer would ask. https://t.co/DBQXO2fqV9

[Beth Rodden @bethrodden]

I can count the number of times I've worked out in my garage in the past six weeks on one finger. I've been injured, stressed and my body has gotten softer and less toned. There were times in my life where this… https://t.co/x3im1xekVs

[Beth Rodden @bethrodden]

Every time I left the house after Kyrgyzstan I would pack half my backpack full of food, even just to go to the grocery store or climbing gym. I was terrified at any hint of hunger after starving for six days. The… https://t.co/lVUNIKIlik

[Beth Rodden @bethrodden]

Two weeks ago I felt a familiar and awful sour feeling start to overwhelm my body. My extremities were on fire and it felt like I was filled with a heavy sludge. It’s what happens to me when my PTSD is triggered from… https://t.co/VzUKs1uotF

[Beth Rodden @bethrodden]

Always hard to leave, always a treat to return.✌️out Yosemite, here’s to hoping the mosquitos aren’t quite in full force when we return. // @orgear @metoliusclimb @TouchstoneClimb @bluewaterropes @ospreypacks… https://t.co/aO2zaZ4vtd

[Beth Rodden @bethrodden]

So thrilled for randypuro and sending his longest ever multi year project “Sitsquatch” the sit start to the late great @DeanSPotter crack test piece “Sasquatch.” It’s been many years, having a kid, countless gobies… https://t.co/cgNr8bmr6G

[Beth Rodden @bethrodden]

For as long as I can remember, I've been a pro at deflecting a compliment. It must not be that hard if I can do it. I just got lucky. It's only because I have small fingers. From first ascents to what I cooked for… https://t.co/A1R2fLspxE

[Beth Rodden @bethrodden]

Last week I was working on a part of my book about Kyrgyzstan. It wasn't about the actual kidnapping, but an intense look at how I was afterwards, the tornado of emotions swirling in my head. As I was reading it, my… https://t.co/kgrdPU9ggW

[Beth Rodden @bethrodden]

I always thought I had to be a confident, incense burning therapist with a PhD in psychology to talk openly about hard or vulnerable things. Similarly, I always thought I had to have a flat chiseled stomach to be… https://t.co/kIbucDzF3A

[Beth Rodden @bethrodden]

Before leaving Yosemite for the season, my friend, amazing photographer and all around good human austin_siadak offered to take some pictures of me capturing what I have been writing about. I'd be lying if I said I… https://t.co/q2QGJDNucf

[Beth Rodden @bethrodden]

I first tried El Poussif in 2003 during the height of my climbing career. I was at my skinny "fighting weight" and expected to waltz up a Fontainebleau classic. I threw myself at it over and over, but finally… https://t.co/sYhpVRofeG

[Beth Rodden @bethrodden]

I used to only like eating pre-portioned, packaged things. I wondered how people knew to stop eating if wasn't in a wrapper? I ate a protein bar and an apple for breakfast, same for lunch and a can of soup and a… https://t.co/LmfDDkCSZ6

[Beth Rodden @bethrodden]

A few years ago I worked on an article for @outsidemagazine that was the first time I talked publicly about things that were vulnerable or shameful for me. But the thing I was scared of most was the photo shoot. I… https://t.co/Ai413dKvSe

[Beth Rodden @bethrodden]

Until my 30's, I was never really comfortable around women. I think it stemmed from being a competitive person and thinking that was not okay to admit or feel or be. But after my divorce, I realized that people are… https://t.co/EQxJHqTlIP

[Beth Rodden @bethrodden]

When I was 16 years old one of my climbing heroes told me that she lost 5 pounds before every competition and gained it back afterwards. It felt like a perilous example for a teenager navigating a changing body in… https://t.co/2ubQrWrLW2

[word west @wordwestpress]

“so how’s that book coming along?”

me:

https://t.co/xfDvNopC7q

[Beth Rodden @bethrodden]

@lizweil Same. Why doesn’t this exist yet?

[Beth Rodden @bethrodden]

I’ve been saying lately that it feels like a long time since I’ve had any meaningful or thoughtful thoughts. It seems that the longer into motherhood I get, the fewer I feel I have (just a theory, not a scientific… https://t.co/fesLNDohge

[Beth Rodden @bethrodden]

@MoveLiveLearn Yes! Love this!