Why I’m Starting This Blog

I’ve always found it easier to walk things out than to talk them out.

This blog is a place for all the thoughts that show up when I’m moving — walking the coast, packing up camp, stirring something simple in a pan after a long hike. It’s a kind of online diary, really. A mix of what’s going on in my head and what’s under my feet.

Here you’ll find pieces of my mental health journey — the anxiety, the PTSD, the days that feel like wading through fog — alongside the things that help me breathe again: solo hiking, wild camping, fresh air, rituals, food, movement, and stillness.

Sometimes it’s just a trail update. Other times it’s a late-night brain dump from a tent in the middle of nowhere.

I’m planning something big: to walk the entire South West Coast Path solo. 630 miles of cliffs, sea, fields, blisters, and probably a few meltdowns. I’ll be training for it, prepping for it, and (hopefully) walking it in one piece — and writing through all of it here.

There’s no polished angle here. No advice guru stuff. Just a messy, hopeful, real-time journal of walking myself home.

If you’re into that — stick around.

Or walk with me.