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Mother & Artist
Work/Play: @ontheinside2
We empower women to change their story.
- PCT 🏔️ 2026: LEGZ
-Theatre, running, yoga, travel, play.

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Love is not just a feeling, it’s…
Openness + loyalty with one another.
Validating + valuing the past & the present.
Empowering each other even when it’s hard. 💗

This acrostic poem was written by Rosita Viscara at the Nebraska Correctional Center for Women.

Her words serve as a beautiful reminder of what real community and intentional love look like in practice. Through poetry, reflection, and shared creative space, our participants remind us of the strength, empathy, and resilience present on the inside every single day.
Thank you, Rosita, for sharing your insight and heart with us!

What does LOVE mean to you today? Drop a heart or comment below to send warmth and solidarity to Rosita and our Sisterhood community in Nebraska! 🕯️✨

#OnTheInside #Sisterhood #VoicesFromInside #IncarceratedArtists #ArtAsHealing #PoetryInCommunity #Empowerment #HealingThroughArt #ConnectionAndCommunity

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Created by a current participant in Nebraska

Even across distance and boundaries, warmth, hope, and connection continue to shine. This powerful artwork was created by one of our participants during a Sisterhood class in Nebraska.

Through expressive art, self-reflection, and shared community, our 8 class series offers space for healing, creative expression, and reminding one another that no matter where we are, we are never truly alone.

Thank you to our artist for sharing such a clear and gentle message of love, guidance, and belonging.

#OnTheInside #Sisterhood #ArtAsHealing #CreativeExpression #HealingThroughArt

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One year after her release, Adrienne walked back into prison, this time as a facilitator. 💜

Together, we led a workshop in Missouri on acceptance and finding shelter in the storm. Through movement, art, and reflection, we explored how to acknowledge what we’re experiencing without having to say it’s okay, and what we can turn toward when life feels overwhelming.

This is the work we bring into the room: opportunities for women to express themselves, connect, and imagine what comes next. Bringing lived experience into that space offers a powerful kind of understanding.

On The Inside’s mission is to empower women to change their story. Adrienne’s return as a facilitator is one meaningful example of what that can look like.

Help us bring this work to more women. Follow, share, and support On The Inside.

#OnTheInside #ChangeYourStory #LivedExperience #CreativeExpression #WomenSupportingWomen

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Sweet as pie film snaps from late August in Portland. 💙

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Missouri, here we come. Nebraska, you’re next. ✈️

This week, On The Inside is heading back inside prison walls to create space for honest conversation, creative expression, connection, and healing.

Together, we’ll explore acceptance, accountability, repair, and what it means to move forward differently.

We believe prison is a place where real healing can happen—and we’re honored to continue doing this work alongside the incredible women at WERDCC and the Nebraska Correctional Center for Women.

The work begins inside and grows outward. 🌱

#OnTheInside #WomenInPrison #PrisonProgramming #HealingThroughArt #BreakingCycles

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In about 9 hours I’ll step off of a plane in Barcelona. After making my way through customs, somehow getting 7 suitcases from baggage claim to a rental car, and driving a stick shift (not my forte) north for a couple of hours, I will arrive in my new home. Although I’ve been working towards this moment for a full year now, none of it feels real yet, and that’s okay.

The preparations have been a challenge, but the intentional hours I’ve spent with friends these past couple of months have been unbelievably beautiful. I don’t want to write a massively long caption here, but lord knows I could. My friends have been supporting and loving me every which way.

This flight is about to depart so I’ve just gotta post this. I wish I had photos of everyone, but this is just what’s in my camera roll right now. I love you all, whether you’re pictured here or not. Thank you for being my friends, my family. ❤️

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I set out for another Timberline Trail adventure with friends, never imagining I’d finish it alone.

And it wasn’t because anyone quit, anyone got dropped, or because I wanted to. Life just got bigger than the run. 🤷‍♀️

One friend needed to head home for a family emergency, and another’s foot just wasn’t cooperating. And thankfully we had a friend willing to help them get off the trail and where they needed to really be (you’re an angel @jessicad.pdx 🙏).

But then one of us still needed to finish the loop and get the car back. Suddenly I was standing at another river crossing thinking, Well… sh*!. I guess it’s just me.

I won’t pretend I loved every minute of it. I took a pretty nasty fall and got a little too close to the edge for comfort. I borrowed a trekking pole from a stranger just to get across the next river because my confidence had taken a much bigger hit than my knees.

There were moments I felt nervous, and moments I felt lonely. And there were times when I wondered whether I really had another 3,000-foot climb left in my legs.

But there were also strangers who stopped to make sure I was okay, and friends who appeared exactly when I needed them (still crying happy tears, @nikkiweaver 😭 …and Brian!). There were wildflowers, great sandwiches, pocket Cheetos, and tears on the final climb that had very little to do with running.

Sometimes, especially when you’re alone, the trail becomes about everything else you’re carrying.

Forty-two miles around Mt. Hood + one very unexpected reminder that I can keep moving, even when the day unfolds nothing like I imagined.

📍 Timberline Trail
🗓️ July 25, 2026
🏃‍♀️ 42 miles
🏔️ ~10,000 ft of elevation

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Nikki on film, part II.

@nikkiweaver
#film
#ilfordhp5

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Walks and talks and “I need to use up this roll of film please let me take your photo.” Nikki on film, part one.

@nikkiweaver
#film
#ilfordhp5

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The exercise isn’t the magic, the coaching and personalized instruction is 💅🏻…

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And that’s what ProperForm is all about. We help physical therapists, fitness professionals, and coaches capture what happens during a session so that clients can easily remember, and follow through.

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I’m about to be insufferable with race content 🤷‍♀️ but whatever, I’ve got lots more random Leona Divide 100 miler moments to share (definitely scroll to the end for a good laugh).

It seems like there’s a version of racing where everything clicks (it exists, right?!?). And then there’s the version where things go wrong but you don’t.

You just keep showing up. And you stay steady, focused, and moving forward. In my 20+ years in this sport, I’ve never had a running coach. Or a nutrition coach. Or any kind of coach. I struggle to eat “running foods.” I’ve never even used a trekking pole. I regularly forget to wash my running vest (🤮). I don’t have the latest gear, the greatest training plan, or the right socks (there’s almost always at least one hole). I’m notorious for showing up with an already dead headlamp or forgetting it altogether. I have run with my hair flapping in the wind because I forgot to put it up and didn’t have a ponytail holder.

But I just keep showing up. And somehow I keep getting it done. I may not be getting any younger in this sport, but I think I’ve gotten a whole lost wiser and a whole lot tougher. I can handle a lot out there.

So I guess what I’m saying is, feel free to f* around and find out what I do next (lol). 😏

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LEONA DIVIDE 100 🐍 (TLDR: scroll to the end for a VERY real ultra running moment)

27 hours and 3rd woman overall!!! And the best part, it was pretty much all smiles from start to finish. It may even be one of the most consistent races I’ve ever run.

And by consistent, I don’t mean perfect…I couldn’t keep anything down for a stretch (an almost 20 mile stretch, from miles ~40-60, but it never turned into a negative spiral. It just became something to manage and overcome. Puke (sometimes mid sentence), rinse, and keep moving. No drama, no panic, and just trying to stay in the rhythm of right foot, left foot…

I have HUGE HUGE gratitude for my people 😭.My ALL female crew team!! TY Elizabeth (@zab_phd) for coming on that long, hot climb with me and getting me through a tough section, plus a little puke. And so much appreciation for my incredible friend Nikki (@nikkiweaver) who jumped in to run 50-ish miles with me overnight and into the finish line. I still can’t believe you did that. I am so lucky to call you both friends. ILYSM.

Big congrats to Emily on such a strong finish. You were pure determination and grit from the jump. And thank you to my friends Scott + Lewis Patooty for being crew adjacent while taking great care of Em.

I love you all - thx for keeping me laughing, dancing, and moving all the way through to a strong finish. 🫶🫶🫶

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