Mountains & Flowers: A Woman's Healing Journey Through Colorado's 14ers

Set against the backdrop of beginning her venture to climb the Colorado 14ers, at forty yearsold and a mother of four, Colorado native-born Rhiannon O’Connell embarks on a journey ofhealing from a life wrought with the effects of having alcoholic/addict parents and thedysfunctional, abusive relationships in adulthood that followed.After her break up with Shane, a man she still loves, and in the wake of her fathers failing healthand her eldest son's demise into drugs and alcohol, she decides to answer the call of themountains, and to begin her quest of climbing the big peaks.The mountains, which she has always been drawn to because of the peace and solace shefound there as a child, become a literal and figurative metaphor of her triumph over life’sadversities, and the setting as she recounts her story, and begins to pick up the pieces of herlife, weaving together the experiences of her difficult past.In the subtle and, at times, not so subtle messages and symbols she begins to acquire fromNature as she treks into Colorado’s backcountry, the wilderness begins to reveal life lessonswhich catapult her on her healing journey as she begins to understand and address theself-sabotaging and defeating patterns she’s engaged in, especially within romanticrelationships, over the course of her life. Read more