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‪@KevinHines‬ , on March 30, 2024 (my 31st birthday) I will be walking across the Golden Gate Bridge as it is on my route Walking to all different 4 corners of the lower 48 states! I have been Walking Across America for Mental Health Awareness and Recovery since January 1st,2022! I wear different editions of shirts with 180 names of piece of beautiful soul were no longer with us due to mental health and/or recovery reasons. Suicide, drug overdose, etc. as they are no longer with us we still want them to be remembered while also having the journey of a lifetime. The 180 80 stands for taking a 180° turn in the opposite direction from the things that are taking with people that we love and care about!
As I i’ve already done a open invite on my Facebook page (A Walking Testimony 26k followers) they have as many people as I can, who might be able to, to come and walk across the bridge with me. I would love to invite you and meet you and share my story with you and hear your story so more people can hear the awareness about mental health and recovery through both of our pages! Please consider this!
Hey everyone, my name is Coach Kyndal Ray Edwards aka A Walking Testimony and I am currently Walking America for Mental Health Awareness and Recovery! In California, I’ve walked from the state line down 101 to Leggett where I took HWY 1 down to Fort Bragg where I have made it so far, here is the rest of California!!
I’ve already walked coast to coast from Atlantic Ocean to Pacific Ocean from Jacksonville Beach, Florida to Long Beach, Washington and then walked all the way to the most north western point of connecting United States at Cape Flattery in Washington! After San Diego, I will walk southern states back to Florida and down to the Keys to hit most south eastern point and then walk the east coast up to Lubec, Maine to hit the most north eastern point of connecting United States!
If you see me coming through your town, or walking down the road, please feel free to honk, wave, or if it’s safe, pull over for a high five, handshake, or a hug! I am not a bum and will not ask you for anything other than prayers and to follow the journey! I do walk town to town mile for mile legitimately! Sometimes between towns people help me with rides after I walk to get lodging and I will get a ride back to wherever I leave off to keep walking unless I have to reroute! I will never ever clock a mile in a vehicle to add in the journey even during a reroute! I am a mental health advocate and a recovery coach that has dealt with 15+ years combined of depression, addiction, and crime! I’m not proud of my past but after 11 times in county jail, 2 times in prison, a few overdoses, and 2 suicide attempts, something finally clicked in my head to change my life during my last 5 year prison sentence about 2 1/2 years in! I got clean in prison where it can be easier to drugs than on the streets! I have 13 felonies and have done a lot of wrong but my past does not define me! I’m blessed for life today and there is so many people of all ages, losing their lives daily to drug overdoses and suicides, to mental health and recovery issues! As somebody who is so blessed to be a survivor and someone who has changed his life, it has been a dream of mine to walk across America since 2013! My life just wasn’t in the right spot back then. Now that it is, I am walking to all the four different corners of connecting you United States, with two coast to coast involved, one already done, to tell everybody that You Matter and We Do Recover! I am employed, and I am still slowly working on my restitution. No donation has ever or will ever go towards paying off stuff from my past, that I am taking care of slowly on my own. Once again, I’m not proud of my past, but I’m a very transparent open person about my life and proud of where I am today! I am not out here for fame and money, but I am out here for awareness. Awareness does come with attention, and I hope to bring much attention to mental health awareness and recovery and hopes that somebody may be inspired by my story, and willing to take the steps to change their lives for the better! As I am employed, when I do get lower on funds, I have no problem doing side work to make a few extra bucks. I eventually hope to be a motivational speaker, sharing my story all around the world. There is a lot of darkness in the world, and I just wanna be a positive light and make people smile while lifting as many people as I can up with love!
58 months drug free!
4,491 miles walked!
Day 477 Walking America (All 4 Corners) for Mental Health Awareness and Recovery!
#AWalkingTestimony #WalkingAmerica #MentalHealthAwareness #Recovery #YouMatter #WeDoRecover

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You are doing a great job!!