Michael Herr: The Weight We Carry Up the Wall

Podcast: Movement Is My Constant: Real conversations on movement, mindfulness, and making meaningful change - for creatives, caregivers, and mission-driven humans · Ana Maia Marques

Opublikowano: 2026-08-19

Episode Overview In this episode, therapist and climber Michael Herr talks about what actually drove fifteen years of climbing and a decade of boxing — and what happened when he watched a climbing partner nearly die and his body simply refused to climb again. Drawing on his book The Shadow of the Climber, Michael traces how shame and the need to prove something can power real athletic achievement, right up until the moment the body stops going along with it. What We Cover How fifteen years of climbing and an earlier decade of boxing were bo...