Celebration Ride: Bike for Mental Health Awareness

This is the Final Celebration Ride for this July fundraiser! Route TBD (it'll be an easy one). Come help make this all worthwhile! I’m riding my bike 200+ miles in July to raise money for mental health awareness! Come ride with me to show your support. All are welcome. Tentative ride schedule: * Raleigh Brewing Taco Tuesday (Neil St.) each Tuesday in July at 6:30pm. * Crank Arm Brewing Group Ride each Wednesday at 6:30pm. * Random city and greenway rides on other days of the week as scheduling allows. * Then, a final celebration ride on Friday, July 31st. Text me to link up and ride together. I will be riding almost every day that I am capable. My number is below. Here's the backstory: In the month of July, I am completing a challenge to ride 200 miles (as a minimum) on my bike to raise money for the non-profit organization, To Write Love On Her Arms. But why is this important to me? I get asked almost daily why I started Ripple. The short answer that I tell folks is to help people build community. But that only barely scratches the surface of the truth. The real answer is bigger. Like way bigger. Here's the real story: I’m going to pour my heart out here and be 110% vulnerable here with you. At the beginning of last year, I was living in Seattle and I was in debt. Financially, emotionally, and spiritually exhausted from a lifetime of what felt like constant trauma and despair. Many of you reading this probably aren’t religious and that's okay, I am not trying to convince you of anything, just sharing my journey. I started praying. Begging God that, if he existed, to show me how to grow. How to let go of the anger I held deep inside. Instead of relief, I got tested. I was working my ass off doing manual labor for my neighbors on the Nextdoor app to try to get ahead. I had a really bad customer, and I fractured my back on the job site. The Seattle healthcare system denied me care. I laid in bed for two months, then I started doing PT from what…