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The path worth following is already calling
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Find the courage for what's next.
Find Yourself
Something is shifting. Maybe it‘s loud, maybe it‘s quiet. A pivot, a question, a season that doesn‘t look like the last one.
The shift is worth following and begins with noticing. It begins with slowing down enough to see where you actually are.
Sometimes this is through talking and sometimes it‘s through walking.
The practice is the same: paying attention, noticing, becoming more aware, and then choosing your next step. I‘ve spent years doing this myself and with others. Now, I make things from this practice—a book, a journal, a card deck, guided walks, letters from the path—to walk alongside you in yours.
You‘re not the only one finding your way. Come walk.
Companions for the Walk
#1 Amazon Best Seller in Walking
Walking & Wayfinding:
Create Your Own Mindful Practice, One Step at a Time
“This book can be a day-to-day companion, not only on designated wayfinding walks but as we move through the hours and moments of every day.”
—Reader review
Available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook.
Also: Contributing author, chapter 20, “Walking Towards Well-Being: Wayfinding as a Mindful Practice“ in Confident You: The Raw Conversations—Real Stories of Courage, Healing, and Redefining Confidence.
Available in paperback, ebook. Coming soon in audiobook.
Coming Next
Two new companions for the walk are taking shape:
The Waybook: A Year of Questions | a perpetual journal with a question a week that moves through Wayfinding as a practice, grounded in Appreciative Inquiry that always begins with what‘s working.
The Wayfinding Card Deck | 52 cards, one for each week of the year, to carry, draw, and reflect on along the way.
Both of these are in the making. The journal will launch in Fall 2026. Sign up for Wisdom from the Wild. You‘ll get the monthly newsletter and you‘ll be the first to know when the journal and the card deck arrive. Starting in January 2027, the newsletter will arrive in your inbox monthly.
The Hip Hiker Blog
I write about walking, the outdoors, and what I notice along the way over at Hip Hiker. The blog includes personal reflections, trip suggestions, gear recommendations, and more. I hike with a zirconium hike and osteoporosis so I write about adventure and limits at the same time.
“Lea has a simpler idea: just walk! From there, things happen. She will accompany you along the way, and she‘s good company.”
—Walking & Wayfinding,
Reader review
Hi, I'm Lea.
I‘m a writer, a walker, and the author of an Amazon #1 bestseller in Walking—Walking & Wayfinding: Create Your Own Mindful Practice, One Step at a Time.
I‘m also a certified coach. My training is in helping people find their own way toward the changes they‘re reaching for in their life, their work, their sense of direction. That work grounds the way I think and write about walking and wayfinding.
Wild Wayfinding came after years of real work with real people and a decision to build something around what I‘m doing now.
When I‘m not writing or coaching, I‘m outside. I garden. I photograph nature. I hike. I believe the trail teaches things the desk can‘t. And whether or not you ever walk one with me, you get the richness it brings me in everything I make.
