The Springwatch presenter jumped at the chance to wander through Wales, but ended up taking an inner journey she wasn’t expecting
. She’s about to embark on a long-distance trail – a sixth-century pilgrim path called the North Wales Pilgrim’s Way. It was re-established in 2011, nearly 400 years after, my faith is the natural world,” the bubbly presenter says before she begins her journey. “But I have a curious mind. I am interested in people who have different kinds of faith.”
Undertaking a pilgrimage as a non-religious soul was more than just the opportunity to expand her social circle. It was also a chance for her to process her own year of loss.before we started filming,” she explains. “She was diagnosed a few years after I was. She didn’t make it. I did. That’s very poignant and it hit me very hard. I was in a very different emotional state than usual.”
This happens in the mountains, where Michaela decides to sleep outside, alone, rising early at dawn to see the light play on the mountains. And again, when she meets a “pioneer priest” who works with worshippers in the natural world, and encourages them to take a “ponder spot” alone.,” she confesses. “But doing the pilgrimage encouraged me to deal with the raw emotion. It gave me time to be with my thoughts and find my own way through it.
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