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📖 Every Version of Her | 101 Honest Truths

Because life is too short to live as anyone else ❤️

10/10/2026

Words hurt ❤️

As a 24 year old, I had absolutely no idea how to deal with grief when I lost my mum. I did what she had brought me up to do. I tried to be strong, carry on and get through it the best way I knew how.

For years afterwards, I was repeatedly told I was a closed book, stuck up or miserable. I don’t think people ever understood how deeply those words affected me. Over time, I began questioning myself, my character and the person I had become. I lost myself in the prison of my own overthinking mind, trying to understand why being hurt had somehow made me someone others felt the need to judge.

Perhaps people simply didn’t know how to approach grief or mental health. Perhaps they didn’t know what to say or how to ask if I was okay. But I know now how much it can matter when someone chooses to ask rather than assume.

It took stepping away from life, falling apart completely and putting my pieces back together differently to understand just how much we can carry without anyone else knowing.

And now, whenever I meet someone who seems strong, I find myself wondering: what darkness they have conquered in their story. What have they survived? What have they had to overcome that nobody else will ever fully understand?

I will forever sit with the broken, the damaged and the lost souls. The people who have been through things they struggle to put into words. The people whose eyes tell stories and whose smiles have fought through wars. The ones who have been misunderstood, who have questioned their worth, who are still trying to find their way back to themselves.

Because I know what it feels like to be struggling beneath the surface while the world makes assumptions about who you are. And I know that sometimes, the thing a person needs most is to be met with understanding instead of judgement.

So please, be careful with your words. Be curious about people’s stories. Ask someone if they are okay, and make room for an honest answer.

Choose kindness always 🙏❤️

09/10/2026

Perhaps one of the hardest things about being hurt is deciding what we are going to let it change about us.

We have all had people disappoint us, trusted things that did not turn out the way we hoped and watched futures we had quietly imagined disappear. Some things hurt simply because they mattered, and I don’t think we always need to turn that pain into a lesson. Sometimes we cared deeply, it hurt deeply, and that is enough.

But being hurt does not have to make us harder. It does not have to make us suspicious of love or so careful with our hearts that we stop fully experiencing life.

Maybe that is why the Libra New Moon tomorrow feels so fitting, with Venus retrograde bringing love, relationships, money and self worth into focus. What we value, what we invest in, what we accept and what we now understand we deserve.

Knowing our worth does not mean we will never be disappointed again. It means disappointment does not get to decide our worth.

So perhaps the bravest thing we can do is keep living fully. Keep noticing the sunsets, taking the chances, following the roads that call us, loving our people fiercely and allowing ourselves to be moved by this ridiculous, beautiful life.

And while we are out here living all of this, perhaps somewhere someone else is doing the same. They are having their own adventures, getting things wrong, having their heart broken, learning what matters and discovering what it means to love someone well.

I love the thought that when two people eventually find each other, neither arrives to be rescued. They arrive with whole lives behind them, with stories the other was not there for, wounds they did not cause, joy they did not create and lessons they had to learn for themselves.

And maybe that is what makes the love worth having. Not that someone completes what was missing, but that two people who have already lived, loved and learned can finally meet and choose to make space for each other.

Perhaps the most beautiful part is not simply finding someone who knows how to hold your heart in a way nobody else quite could.

It is knowing how to hold theirs too.

I hope that is the love everyone gets to experience in this life ❤

08/10/2026

There is something beautiful about not having the whole story yet.

Some of the moments we treasure most begin with absolutely no idea where they will lead. A decision, a plane ticket, a new place, a conversation, a feeling we decide to follow without knowing what will come of it.

We spend so much time wanting to know what is coming next that we forget how lovely it can be to be surprised by our own lives.

There are places we have not been, people we have not met and moments we have not imagined yet.

And perhaps that is the best part. We have no idea what is still waiting to find us 💫❤️✨

04/10/2026

Camino Finisterre | 4 Days | 89km 🥾 🌊 🏖️ 🇪🇸

Sometimes you reach the place you thought was the end and discover that something in you is still looking beyond it.

We are so often taught to measure our lives by what we reach. We work towards something believing that once we get there, we will finally feel settled, satisfied or certain. But life doesn’t always give us that neat sense of completion. Sometimes we arrive and know we are done, and there is peace in that. Other times, despite being grateful for where we are, something in us still feels drawn towards what might be next.

I think there is wisdom in learning to tell those feelings apart. There is a difference between constantly needing the next thing because we don’t know how to be content with what we have, and recognising that something genuinely still feels unfinished. One comes from never feeling enough. The other comes from knowing yourself well enough to listen when something still matters to you.

Santiago could have been the end of this Camino, but I followed the yellow arrows for another 89km towards Finisterre, drawn once again towards the coast and the feeling of walking until there is nowhere left to go. Then you reach the 0km marker, the end of the world, except of course it isn’t. The road ends, but the horizon continues.

Perhaps our own endings are like that too. A chapter closes, a relationship ends, a job changes, a dream takes a different shape or something we have spent years working towards finally arrives, and suddenly we are standing at our own version of 0km.

We can feel as though we should immediately know what comes next, but perhaps we don’t need to.

Maybe there is something beautiful about standing at the edge without rushing to fill the unknown. To acknowledge how far you have come, to be grateful for where you are and still allow yourself to wonder what might be beyond it.

Because wanting something more does not always mean what you have isn’t enough. Sometimes it simply means there is still something in you that wants to live, experience, explore or discover.

Perhaps an ending isn’t always asking you to stop. Sometimes it is asking you to decide what comes next ❤️

24/09/2026

Wishing you all ❤️ this beautiful Thursday.

There is a lot of energy around with the Full Moon approaching, so be a little kinder to yourself than usual. You never know what magic might be quietly making its way towards you ✨❤️💫

24/09/2026

Day 3 | Betanzos to Hospital de Bruma | 24km 🥾

One of the things I love most about the Camino is how quickly it strips away the things we normally use to define ourselves.

In everyday life, we can be very aware of what we do, what we have achieved, where we come from and how other people see us. On the Camino, most of that disappears. You are simply another pilgrim, carrying your own story and walking the same road as everyone else.

I think there is something quite powerful in that. We spend so much of our lives trying to live up to the versions of ourselves we have created, or that other people expect us to be. The Camino reminds me that underneath all those labels, we are all just human beings trying to find our way.

Maybe we don’t need to prove quite as much as we think we do.

It also makes you think about resilience differently. Sometimes strength is simply getting up when you are tired, continuing when you haven’t slept properly and choosing to show up when you know today might ask more from you than yesterday did.

Not every difficult day means something is wrong. Sometimes something is difficult because it is stretching you. The important part is learning the difference between something that is taking pieces of you away and something that is asking you to discover what you are capable of.

For me, that is why I like putting myself in situations that stretch me. I don’t need and want everything to be easy. I learn far more about myself when it isn’t.

Maybe there are parts of your life right now asking more from you than you expected. Before deciding that difficulty means you are on the wrong path, perhaps ask yourself what it is actually revealing.

Is it taking something from you, or showing you something in yourself you might never have discovered if you had always chosen the easier way?

Because sometimes resilience is not about pushing through everything. It is learning to know what is worth walking through and what is worth walking away from ❤️

23/09/2026

I think some people are simply born with a wild heart ❤️‍🔥

Mine has been through enough to know that life can hurt, people can disappoint you and sometimes the things you care about most do not work out the way you hoped. But somehow, none of it has made me want to feel less. If anything, it has made me more determined to live with my whole heart while I am here.

That probably explains a lot about the way I live. I love new places, unfamiliar roads, spontaneous plans, long conversations with people I have only just met and the feeling that there is still so much of this world I have not experienced yet. I like following a feeling, changing direction and seeing what happens when I stop trying to control every part of the story.

But being wild at heart does not mean being careless with your heart. I think you can love your freedom, wander far and still care deeply about the people and places that matter to you. You can be perfectly happy on your own path and still know that there are some things in life you would happily stop wandering for.

For now, I am grateful for the life I get to live, for every road that has brought me here and for the fact that, despite everything, my heart is still soft enough to be moved by a sunset, a stranger’s kindness, a good conversation and the possibility of something I could never have planned.

I think I will always be a little wild at heart. And after everything life has thrown at me, I think that is something worth protecting ❤️

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