Icalled it my “mild Wild .”

When I decided to trek the Camino de Santiago in May 2022, I wasn’t experiencing a full Cheryl Strayed -level life crisis, and I certainly wasn’t willing to camp on the Pacific Crest Trail to fix my problems. I have never been that depressed.

But that spring, my mental health wasn’t in a good place thanks to the volatile combination of two years of pandemic lockdown, switching my antidepressants, my undiagnosed ADHD and a horrible case of writer's block. Every morning, I sat down in front of my computer to work on my third novel, Here We Go Again , and every morning, I tortured myself with that blank screen.

I was stuck . I felt stagnant, uninspired and trapped.

Until I learned about the Camino, that is.

The Camino de Santiago is a series of

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