In 2011, I hit rock bottom and faced ruin after experiencing severe burnout during my legal career. I left behind my homeland of the UK to begin again in Andalucia, Spain. In my first year in Spain, I found myself sitting outside a café, one day when a woman asked if she could join me. […]
6 Signs That You’ve Been Tamed.
It’s the dream, isn’t it? To live a wild and free life. Most of us feel a yearning in our heart that is the call to the wild. To create a life of freedom. Who, deep down inside, doesn’t want to be free? By freedom, I mean free from anything that isn’t in alignment with […]
I Don’t Want To Live In A World Without The Wild. Do You?
Back when I was a girl, I lived in a town close to Manchester in the UK. While my school was in an urban area, it was close to a large green space called Tandle Hills. This large patch of wild was the perfect antidote to living in a town, giving the residents space to […]
Magpie Culture. Why We Need To Let Go Of Our Hoarding Ways.
We had a crisis of epic proportions on our hands. Humanity was under siege like never before. Our very ways of living were under threat. Yes, we had a pandemic of greedy hoarders, fearful they might run out of toilet paper to wipe their selfish little bottoms with. Seriously. All jokes aside, the coronavirus that […]
What The Camino De Santiago Can Teach Us About The Homeless.
I remember the first time I fully understood that some people didn’t have a home. While on holiday on the Costa Brava in northern Spain as a child, we’d taken a day trip to Barcelona. I saw a man asleep on a cardboard box on the pavement. My nine-year-old brain couldn’t fathom out why he […]
Ethical Travel. How Slow Can You Go?
In 2004, I set off on what would be my first travelling adventure to wander and wonder at the world we live in. A full year away, travelling on a whim to wherever the wind blew me. No responsibilities, no ties, and definitely no clocks. They say that to travel is the only thing you […]
Mother Earth. The Cycle Of Life Is Rooted In Nature.
The cycle of life is rooted in nature. From the first buds bursting forth through Mother Earth’s fertile skin in the glorious chaos of spring. As we dance our way into summer and the sweet scent of jasmine on the heat of the ocean breeze. When the first leaves of fall carpet the world with […]