Cami Ostman M.S.

About

In March of 2010, Cami Ostman, M.S., landed in Antarctica prepared to run the marathon distance (26.2 miles) on her seventh continent, completing a personal challenge she had set for herself more than two years earlier. Her journey of personal midlife transformation is chronicled in her book, Second Wind: One Woman's Midlife Quest to Run Seven Marathons on Seven Continents (Seal Press). She is also the co-editor of Beyond Belief: The Secret Lives of Women in Extreme Religions, a contributor to Adventures Northwest and to her own blog, www.rungoddessrun.com. Cami is also the founder of The Narrative Project, a program to give writers everything they need to get their books done.

Cami Ostman understands from both professional and personal perspectives that individuals hit points in their lives when they no longer have a stomach for people-pleasing, placating, or placidity and are looking for a way to catch a second wind that will propel them into the second half of life with vibrancy and clarity.

Cami has worked as a counselor, workshop leader, and coach with hundreds of individuals who've hit major life transitions only to discover that the foundations they have laid for themselves are not sustainable as they move forward.

As a licensed marriage and family therapist, she has co-authored articles in her field. She has also appeared or had her works reviewed in several publications, including the Mudgee Guardian in Australia, The Bellingham Herald and Adventures Northwest in Washington State, La Prensa in Chile, Fitness Magazine (November 2010), O, The Oprah Magazine (January 2011), The Atlantic, and Washington Post.

Cami is uniquely qualified to coach people into telling the most honest versions of their own stories. With 30 years helping people name and put words to their experiences, Cami can partner with you to help you tell the story you have in your heart to tell.

Having spent twenty years as a psychotherapist, and now serving as a writing coach and editor, Cami specializes in helping authors “figure out what they really have to say.” She is currently living in Seattle, Washington, working on a novel and on her second quest memoir.

To find out how Cami can help you catch your own second wind, visit her at www.camiostman.net. For information about her book or to follow her blog, go to www.thenarrativeproject.net or https://www.facebook.com/thenarrativeprojectforwriters/

Books by Cami Ostman M.S.

Recent Posts

Working with Your Minimums

If you can hold space THERE, at your bare minimum, you can soar again when the next season comes around.

Trade-Offs

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The Inheritance

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One Footfall at a Time

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Way Leads to Way

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The "E" in SHINE

Einstein said, “There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.”

The N in SHINE

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The "I" in SHINE

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The "H" in SHINE

The narrative of who you are has been a carefully designed structure, built on the foundation of your history and your relationships. But WHAT IF you are more/other/beyond what you know yourself to be.

The "S" in SHINE

To see the world through the eyes of a foreigner, or a beginner, we have to remember that we really aren’t experts at living—we are experimenters. We aren’t expected to know what we don’t know, to understand what we don’t understand, or to have an edge on anyone else. And this is oddly both disconcerting and freeing.