08/05/2026
Am I really free if I’m filled with fear?
A year ago, I wild camped alone in a forest for the first time.
It should have felt freeing, expansive and wildly liberating but then another vehicle pulled up beside me.
I felt it instantly.
My body contracted, my breath shortened and
I closed the van door.
Fear moved through me.
What if it’s a man?
What if I’m not safe?
What if something happens and no one knows I’m here?
In that moment, my nervous system didn’t register adventure.
It registered danger.
And while it might have seemed irrational, it wasn’t coming from nowhere.
It was rooted in lived experience.
In collective memory.
In what so many women have carried for generations.
Not feeling safe in our bodies.
Not feeling safe to take up space.
I’ve known moments in this life where I wasn’t safe, and I’ve carried the imprint of many more.
But I also know that living in fear is not the same as living in freedom.
That night, I stayed with myself.
I breathed.
I opened the door and stepped outside.
Then I saw her. A woman, alone, with her dog.
Instantly, everything softened.
We connected.
We shared stories by the fire.
And she told me, she used to feel the same.
Here I am, one year later, being reminded of that moment again.
Of how quickly the body can move into fear.
Of how deeply it can live within us.
Of how many women are walking through life like this every single day.
Not just in forests.
But in meetings, in relationships, walking down the street. Even in their own homes.
Holding tension. Holding fear.
Holding themselves back because their nervous system doesn’t feel safe.
And that’s exactly why this work matters.
Not to get rid of fear.
But to learn how to be with it.
To move with it.
To feel it without being ruled by it.
To expand your capacity to hold life, without bracing against it.
Because you’re not truly free if your body is always preparing for something to go wrong.
And you deserve so much more than that.
This is the work we step into inside Fear → Freedom.
A day of embodiment and breakthrough, where you don’t just talk about fear, you meet it in the body and move through it.
Fear → Freedom
🗓️ Sun 24th May
📍 Inverkeilor Village Hall
⏰ 10.30–4pm
💫 £88
If this speaks to you, you’ll feel it.
DM me to book your place.
Much love, Karen 🫶
