It was worth 40 days of my life to try and figure out exactly who I am and what I want from my life. I had to change my direction. Holmes-Binney wrote the book Desert Sojourn about her experiences in a canvas tent 70 miles south of Wendover, near Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge. She will be at the Border's bookstore in Crossroads Mall tonight at 7, signing books and discussing her personal journey. She realized she had been living personalities others had encouraged her to form.
Men have the same issues and almost to a more extreme point.
People had always defined me as a woman. I had never been defined as an individual. Thrust into the journey of individual discovery by an author who touched her soul at a seminar, Holmes-Binney set into the Utah desert to face her biggest fears. While she had fears, mainly of mountain lions, mice and loneliness, Holmes-Binney was more anxious about the process of realizing who she was and who she wanted to be. The desert and its ability to make her feel more alone than anywhere else was only a stage to perform the act.