Dr. Gwen Schiada interviews Heather Waring about the essential need to create space in our lives for reflection and clarity. We so often get caught up in “ticking the boxes” throughout our days, but are we really living?

Creating space and using walking as a transformational tool allows us to connect our physical and mental and become wholistic, healthy beings. It is in this “space” that we can better listen and hear the path that calls to us. And, give ourselves permission to take the steps toward the life we want to create.

Heather shares her personal journey of living for years in the mode of pushing through, ticking the boxes and living in her words with “her head severed from her body” until she could push no more.” It was only when she “Listened” and began to heal the disconnect that the authentic and purposeful path for her life became clear. How many of us aren’t listening? How many of us are severed from ourselves? Her story of walking the Camino is an amazing metaphor for life. Life calls us to the right path when we create the space and listen. First, we have to trust.

Heather Waring is a walk leader and coach who takes women on transformational walking experiences along ancient paths. Key to the transformation is the space to walk and reflect as space is something many women struggle to have as they are so busy being there for everyone else in their lives, but not for themselves.