Interview with Kelsey Sather
Katie Cook-Bretson recently spent a morning with Kelsey Sather in conversation around how her work in wellness as an acupuncturist influences her passion as an athlete, and being a woman.
KS: What does beautiful mean to you?
KC: In Chinese medicine there is a belief that our soul shines through our eyes, it’s called Shen. You can literally see it. It’s our life force.
In health, this is the most beautiful thing to me. It’s the ability to have presence in the moment and be fully alive. Those moments in life when we are most connected – in our body, to nature, to each other.
Kelsey K. Sather is a local Bozeman writer whose fiction and essays aim to promote humans’ connection to nature. As an avid climber and health enthusiast, she also writes about fitness, food, and outdoor play. Kelsey is passionate about using storytelling to advocate for gender equality and ecossytem preservation. She creates articles for her online journal, These Words Like Rocks, and curates The Work Behind the Body series at her website kelseyksather.com.
As Part II in The Work Behind the Body series, the Worker’s Wo/Manual offers interviews with health and fitness professionals about bolstering athletic performance and overall wellness. Though most of the questions will relate to athletes of all genders, there will always be questions specific to the female body. The hope is to empower women and men through knowledge as they pursue their best selves in sport and life.