by Sonia Choquette
This is the story of a successful public speaker/life coach who suffers some tragic events in her life, her brother and father die and then her marriage seems to fall apart.
She decides that she needs to regain perspective in her life and thinks that walking the Camino is what she needs to do. The book outlines her personal experiences and the emotional cleansing as she walks the route. I have read several books about the Camino, some good, some not so good.
She did the Camino is a slightly easier way than many travellers. She hired a company to carry her luggage from one stop to the next and she decided to stay in hotels rather than the pilgrim refugios. Despite this she still had a great deal of physical pain in her feet throughout the walk.
This book was probably the most self-focused of all of them. She was totally concentrated on her experience and seems to document her adventures on a day by day basis. Many of the other books talked a bit more vaguely about experiences and talked more about some interactions and observations with other people. That is not to say this was not a good thing, it was just different. As she travels she comes to learn that many of the wrongs she felt have been committed by her are in part her perceptions of things and she comes to understand and forgive her father and her husband.
I enjoyed the story and her honesty.
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