Carolee Belkin Walker is a wellness blogger, podcaster, and freelance journalist whose work appears in the Washington Post, Women’s Running, the Chicago Tribune, the Toronto Sun, the Huffington Post, Thrive Global, the Baltimore Sun, the Tyler Morning Telegraph, and others. Her former trainer, Reuel Tizabi, the author of two chapters in her book, Getting My Bounce Back, is a certified personal trainer and a doctor of physical therapy student at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. His particular interests include orthopaedics, injury prevention, and sports performance. But Carolee wasn’t always a fitness and wellness writer. Until 2014, she never owned a pair of functional sneakers or had an exercise routine or ever heard of the phrase “wellness.” Now, at 60, Carolee’s a runner and a triathlete who’s found a path to health that’s also led her to writing about wellness and inspiring others. She’s a career professional at the U.S. Department of State, serving assignments as a public affairs specialist and a public diplomacy writer and editor and as a consular officer specializing in assisting U.S. citizens overseas and crisis management. Over the years, Carolee’s worked around the clock on the Department’s task forces, including during the Haiti earthquake and the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. She was a featured blogger for the Daily Awesome at GovLoop, and her articles on U.S. life and culture have been translated into multiple languages and published around the world. Walker lives with her husband in Washington, D.C. http://caroleewalker.com/ http://bit.ly/2FBZfpZ