The Zen of Learning to Ride a Motorcycle: How I Faced My Fears, Shifted Gears, and Found Healing from Anxiety, Codependency, and Depression

Her childhood was scarred by her mother's schizophrenia. But she still had fuel in the tank.

Leslie Reyes felt like a prisoner of trauma. Shortly after she prevented her mother's suicide at the age of ten, she began having panic attacks—and ultimately realized that her mom's mental health diagnoses had distracted her parents from teaching her the tools she needed to survive.

Despite her beloved Filipino uncle's encouragement to taste the thrill of riding motorcycles, her terror always won o...