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Reflections and Growth

Eva’s Birth Story

Don’t want to read the birth story? Skip to my recovery blog here: https://tiffanymelius.com/2022/08/23/post-partum-recovery There is so much I want to write. So many details that I don’t want to forget. But already, at five months post-birth, there is so much I...

Post-Partum Recovery

WARNING: I do not shy away from descriptions of my birth injuries in this blog.  I feel like too often women, myself included, are caught unaware of the reality of giving birth as postpartum education mostly focuses on baby care and does not include maternal...

This is the End

6 min read So it is done. I have made my decision. For better or worse. It is done. I am not going to continue with my Olympic bid. I woke on Sunday October 4, 2020 with a heaviness in my chest.  I thought that I was coming down with a cold, and decided to stay home...

The End Is In Sight

(Written July 18, 2020) 8min read When COVID-19 caused travel to be suspended, Continentals and the Olympics to be postponed, and the world to be upended, things shifted for me. I was tired. I had been pushing just to finish things off, make it to the finish line, tie...

Trying to find my way #BLM

At the start of my December 2019 blog, I started to put into words an aspect of my journey and growth that has been… challenging. SIDE, BUT IMPORTANT, NOTE:  I understand that my struggles aren’t the struggles of BIPOC (Black/Indigenous/People Of Colour). I...
Decisions, Decisions

Decisions, Decisions

Photo: Standing atop the podium at the 2017 Oceania Continental Climbing Championships This past weekend marks the dates that the 2020 Oceania Continental Climbing Championships was supposed to have been.  The competition that was to decide my fate for the next six...

World Climbing Championships 2019: Tokyo

In a word: relief.  Relief that I can still perform. Relief that I don’t have to work myself to the bone to achieve (in fact, realising that I CAN’T achieve if I am burnt out). Relief that I am not alone. I arrived in Japan two weeks before the World...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only...

OBN 2019: The process of processing

It’s been two weeks now since Open Boulder Nationals. Many people have come up to me this week, concerned about my wellbeing, considering the very vulnerable blog I wrote about my experience. Last week was a scheduled training break and I took full advantage of the...