This episode is still very much alive in me as I record it. Still landing, still settling. And that is exactly why I wanted to share it now, in the raw, rather than after the fact.

Before we left for our family road trip to the south of France, I knew something big was coming. I could feel it. The area we were travelling to is Cathar country, land that is deeply woven into my lineage and something in me knew that this trip was going to go far beyond a family holiday.

And it did.

In this episode I share what came up on the road, the overwhelm that arrived before we had even crossed into France, the feeling of hitting a ceiling within myself, the emotions that moved through me like waves as we drove deeper south.

I talk about the moment my feet touched the sand and something in me finally settled. And I share what happened when we visited Minerve, an ancient Cathar village in the mountains, where something in my lineage quietly, unmistakably, activated.

This episode is not a travel diary. It is an honest account of what it feels like to physically return to the land your ancestors walked, to receive what that land has been holding for you and to begin the slow, unglamorous work of letting it integrate.

It is also a reminder that the deepest shifts we experience do not happen all at once. They happen in stillness, in presence, in the quiet moments when we finally stop filling the silence and let ourselves be heard by ourselves.

Wherever you are on your own journey home, I think there is something in this one for you.

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