🏔️What’s Calling You Higher?⛰️

Summit-Seekers Rise...

Welcome back, Summit-Seekers!

We were recently telling each other old stories, the kind that slip through time’s cracks, waiting for the right moment to be heard. Jonathan shared with Mandy about how he attended a bachelor party and how they had an infamous climb up Angel’s Landing while in Zion National Park. He’d never mentioned just how crazy it got—how the path narrowed, the skies roared, and the drops whispered danger. When the winds got really wild, some in the group wisely turned around. However, the groom-to-be and Jonathan pressed on, chain in hand, grit in their breath, the incoming storm trying to write them off the mountain.

Though we don’t really recommend pushing through a dangerous hike, for Jonathan the real meaning was in how he and the groom-to-be supported each other along the difficult way.

It made us think that sometimes you don’t always climb for the summit alone. The wisdom is also in why we climb, who we climb with, and how we carry ourselves through the narrow, wind-whipped places in between. We wrote a little poem to reflect on this:

your past self would weep with wonder
at the altitude you now call normal
those peaks behind you demanded blood from your knees
made you grow wings mid-fall
so glance backward—not with regret
but only to remind yourself how far you’ve come

Narrow paths. Roaring skies. Good friends. That’s how mountains become metaphors. But growth also looks different for everyone—sometimes it means turning back, sometimes it means holding on tighter.

We hope you continue to conquer your personal mountains in whatever way your soul needs today. Welcome to this week’s edition of the Positopian where we share positive news, fiction, resources, & insights to help you become the best version of yourself…

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Positive Quotes:

• “Narrow paths make wide friendships.” ~Mandy & Jonathan Chew

• “Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.” ~Jordan B. Peterson

• “The guilt you feel for setting boundaries is a sign of how deeply you were trained to abandon yourself.” ~unknown

• “The door to happiness opens from the inside.” ~Søren Kierkegaard

• “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” ~Henry David Thoreau

• “Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.” ~Richard Bach

• “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” ~Robert Frost

• “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” ~Andre Gide

• “Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.” ~Roald Dahl

• “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” ~Oscar Wilde

• “Your next move matters more than your last mistake.” ~R. Carter

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Positive Images:

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Positive Resources:

Green flags in people:

• They celebrate your wins

• Remember small things about you

• They respect your boundaries

• You feel energized after seeing them

• They listen without being defensive

• They allow you to be fully yourself

• They make you feel safe

• You don't have to watch what you say

• They support your goals

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Positive News:

Hiker missing for weeks in California's Sierra Nevada mountains found Alive in snow-covered cabin

The Fresno County Sheriff's Office said it has seen a couple of cases in the past of people surviving tough conditions in the Sierra Nevada, but never to this extent.

"Two days, nine days. That's amazing," Fresno County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Tony Botti said. "But three weeks, it's unheard of."

Gutierrez said he leaves a cabin unlocked for situations like this, allowing for an increased chance of survival.

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Positive People:

In 1999, a 10-year-old boy named Kevin Stephan nearly died after being accidentally hit in the chest with a baseball bat during a school game.

His life was saved by an off-duty nurse in the crowd, Penny Brown, who performed a rescue maneuver on him.

Seven years later, Kevin was working as a waiter at a restaurant when a woman began choking across the room. Kevin rushed to her and performed the Heimlich maneuver, which saved the woman's life.

That woman's name was Penny Brown.

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Always Remember, "Chews" Joy :)
~Mandy & Jonathan Chew