✈️ 7 Years Ago, I Left My Home... Oh the Journey Home to Me!

✈️ 7 years ago, I left my home in Canada with nothing but some backpacks and a whisper in my heart. I didn’t know where I was going. I only knew I had to go.

Oh, the journey home... to me!

Since then, I’ve walked the sacred ridges of the Himalayas, bathed in the turquoise waters of Thailand’s islands, felt the wild pulse of India’s contrasts, breathed the mystical air of the Andes, and traversed the vibrant worlds of Guatemala, Mexico, Costa Rica, Belize, and Nicaragua.

I’ve stumbled. I’ve soared. I’ve been broken open and rebuilt by the road.

🤔 There was that time I unknowingly swam in crocodile-full waters - and loved every minute. 🐊

🤔 Or that moment I stubbornly trekked through jungle trails into an ancient Mayan archaeologic site (in the rain, in the dark, alone, against the local’s warnings of jaguars) - to experience the sunrise from the top of a pyramid, the fog lifting to reveal an entire city of wildlife, hours before any tour bus or human arrived. 🐆

🤔 Or how about when my friend and I tried to help a woman being abused by a man in the streets of India, and a female police office refused our request to intervene because “It’s probably her husband.” 😡

These experiences, and many more, have shaped me.

They live in me always.

🌋 Today, I sit, at home in the highlands of a volcanic crater lake in Guatemala, not as a wanderer, but as a woman who has learned that every step truly is an arrival.

I’ve opened my voice. I’ve reclaimed my truth. And now, I am opening my heart to receive all that life has yet to show me.

The road less travelled is not easy.

But it is the only one my soul knows how to walk.

So, if I could do it all over again, I wouldn’t dare change a thing.

💫 If you feel lost, remember: Your path is not behind you. It is inside you, waiting for your next step.

Let my journey be a mirror, not a map. May it remind you that your own path is sacred, even when it’s uncertain.

🫶🏼 7 feels like a completion and a continuation. 

I feel older and wiser, yet younger and more free.

🙏🏼 The journey isn’t over, but I also feel such a sweet sense of contentment exactly where I am.

If you feel a whisper within you, calling you to step into the mystery... There are now two opportunities to join me on retreat this winter! Through a group or private retreat. 💫 EXPLORE YOUR RETREAT PATH 💫

(📸 Pics from the first few months of this wild journey - 7 years ago)

With love & wild gratitude,

Stephanie Kittell