Daniel Hight
The inaugural profile is none other than Daniel Hight, founder of More Than Our Story.
More Than Our Story
Embracing You: Daniel Hight
Have you ever been unhappy in your body? What do you do in those moments?
In this episode, Eric has a conversation with Daniel Hight about his journey with his body and his story of being diagnosed and living with incurable brain cancer.
Throughout the episode, Daniel shares about what was going on internally as he became a new parent and the thoughts that were in his mind about his body. He shares his journey of learning to embrace and honor his body and recognizing the fact that his journey with his body ebbs and flows.
Eric and Daniel also chat about his platform, More Than Our Story: a platform that uplifts other individuals’ stories with the hopes of creating community and a place where other people feel less alone in their struggles. Daniel shares the importance of learning to live life looking through the windshield, not the rear view mirror. A beautiful reminder for us all!
The Embracing You Podcast
We are all on our own unique journey to discovering ourselves. Embracing You is a podcast dedicated to help you take the journey within to reconnect with and discover the innate love you have for yourself.
Eric Pothen
Eric uses his own lived experience as a certified eating disorder recovery coach and a certified integrative wellness and life coach to help heal people’s relationship with food and their bodies, and achieve their goals.
Embrace You Wear
Here at Embrace Wear, we believe that the love we have for ourselves originates and comes from within. That our bodies don’t define who we are. We do. We also reject the notion that beauty comes in one size. You are perfect just the way you are. Embrace Wear believes in recreating what it means to be beautiful. And that all starts with embracing ourselves from within. Embracing others for WHO they are. Not what they look like. At the end of the day, we are all human beings that deserve love and support from ourselves. That deserve to know how to embrace and celebrate ourselves each and every day. 10% of all proceeds will go to local eating disorder clinics and programs to support people on their own journey with their bodies by helping them embrace and rediscover the love they have for themselves that comes from within.
Daniel
Daniel is an extremely curious person, a wealth of random knowledge and facts. Extremely passionate about a vast array of interests ranging from health to history, science to athletics, everything culinary and the list goes on. Trust us, you would want to be on his team for Trivial Pursuit.
Daniel is also years into his battle with brain cancer. He experienced a seizure while on a Zoom call at work in late 2020 and quite literally, his life changed within minutes. After his operation he started to talk about his story but had always known it was more than just him. From then, More Than Our Story became a PROJECT that has evolved into the starting point it is today.
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