Ride Bikes for Mental Health Awareness

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 I could find on Youtube, and started laying stone again for my neighbors, still injured. I had moved to Seattle with the woman I…