Pilgrimage: Lessons Learned from Solo Walking Three Ancient Ways

When life breaks you down, sometimes you have to walk yourself back together.

At 45, I was drowning in despair, midlife crisis, and sleepless nights that stretched into months. The world had locked down, but my real prison was the suffocating routine of a life that had lost much of its meaning.

So I did something radical: I walked away.

This isn't a fairy-tale spiritual awakening. It's the messy, painful, triumphant story of a woman who chose to put one foot in front of the other when giving u...