Carolyn Scott KortgeCarolyn Scott Kortge, author of The Spirited Walker: Fitness Walking for Clarity, Balance, and Spiritual Connection, is an award-winning journalist, cancer survivor and seasoned public speaker. She has been featured as an authority on walking in publications including SELF Magazine, Family Circle, Woman's Day, CURE, HEALTH, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsweek and Bottom Line. The Spirited Walker (HarperOne 1998) chronicles Kortge's mid-life transformation from "klutz" to "athlete" as a competitive race walker. Two years after release of that book, Kortge was diagnosed with breast cancer. Out of her encounter with a life-threatening disease, she created the Walking Well® program and stepped before a new audience--a growing body of people who identify themselves as survivors. She has been a repeat presenter at health and wellness events including CURE National Forums for cancer patients and survivors and Life Beyond Cancer retreats sponsored by US Oncology. In Healing Walks for Hard Times, Kortge draws on personal experience, interviews, and the metaphors of movement to provide a compassionate path of healing that guides readers to get their feet on the ground, taking steps that move them forward on a path of healing and recovery.www.spiritedwalker.comwww.walksthatheal.com