You are not broken.
There is nothing to fix.
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Who are you really?
I remember meeting up with an old ex-boyfriend partway through walking the length of New Zealand and he said the weirdest thing…
He said:
Continue readingYou don’t have to be a superstar
One of the random I thoughts and doubts I had ahead of walking the length of New Zealand was…
Continue readingThere is always hope
There is always hope – even when things are pretty bad, you feel down or the world seems out to get you.
Recently, I got engaged – yip over the moon!
But this was the last place I imagined I’d ever be.
Continue readingHow do you improve your self-worth?
How can I improve my self-worth?
That was the question I asked myself when I experienced the fallout from an emotionally abusive relationship.
It’s taken several years to put the pieces together to realise it wasn’t a matter of trying to improve my self-worth but rather recognising my self-worth was always there.
Bottom line…
Continue readingSmall steps to success
It’s all about the small steps and taking the next one.
When I first set out walking the length of New Zealand, the whole concept was so huge and overwhelming and I was filled with self-doubt and worries about what ifs.
It proved to be pretty paralysing for the first couple of years I toyed with the idea – and consequently talked myself out of it.
Continue readingSelf-doubt doesn’t have to hold you back
“If only I didn’t doubt myself then I’d be able to walk the length of New Zealand.”
That’s what I told myself over and over again when I was “trying to find” the courage to take on the adventure.
I thought my self-doubt was holding me back, stopping me in my tracks, and pointing to a belief that I just wasn’t good enough.
I finally got to the point where this thinking was driving me crazy and somewhere inside me wanted to prove it was all wrong. I’d put off doing the walk for three years, too consumed with self-doubt.
Enough was enough!
But my self-doubt didn’t vanish.
Continue readingWe are all brave
I don’t consider myself especially brave.
Yet I’ve been called that a lot recently.
It all started with my solo trek down the length of New Zealand.
But I definitely didn’t feel brave when I stood at the northern tip of New Zealand about take the first step.
In fact, I was a total bundle of nerves and riddled with self-doubt and fear. I’d never done anything like this before. Who was I to think I could walk 3,000km (1,864 miles)?
Continue readingYou’re stronger than you think you are
We’d been sailing all night and were coming up 17 hours on the water.
It had been a night darker than coal; no moon, thick dense cloud. I couldn’t even make out the bow of the boat.
The wind had been keen and the waves had whooshed. It was anyone’s guess what they looked like beyond the ghostly froth of bubbles that stirred as the boat ploughed through the water.
It felt like the waves were big. It felt like we were going fast.
Come the grey of morning, we were exhausted and the sea was a confused mess, as if it was throwing a temper tantrum at the injustice of the early start to a new day.
Continue readingHow to take a leap into the Great Unknown
“So, how are you feeling about your big sailing adventure?”
That’s the question I’ve been getting as the countdown to the start date of the big sail around Great Britain gets closer – just nine sleeps now!
And my answer?
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Katrina Megget 