Welcome to Wayfinding Woman, with Yamuna Flaherty
Join me in a community of soul seekers and heart chasers.
How I Ended Up Here
After giving birth to my daughter, Aramara, on the fall equinox of 2023, I spontaneously decided to take a break from creating social media content. I felt that the first year of my daughter’s life was too precious to spend desperately crafting 2,200-character captions to accompany my Insta posts. Instead, I needed a time-out to recalibrate—a pause from productivity to deeply listen to the whispers of a new voice that would arise from crossing the threshold into motherhood.
I got through life by writing stories. As a kid, I was that hopeless romantic who sent love notes to classmates and filled diaries with tales of my heartbreak. I started my first email newsletter, “The Gypsy Adventures,” at the age of eighteen while backpacking in Southeast Asia under my then-pseudonym, “poorgypsy.” Years later, I launched a Tumblr account called “Encountering the Divine,” where I shared photographs and wrote about my spiritual experiences while travelling.
In my tireless pursuit of self-understanding, writing has been my longest companion.
For a while now, I have longed for a larger canvas to write long-form stories, share unpublished photos and stories, and gather a community of like-minded women around the fire to write our deepest truths. Plus, my activist side gets me into a bit of trouble with the ever-increasing social media censorship, so it’s time to free my voice where my thoughts and ideas are welcome.
This publication is where I will share my musings on motherhood, writing on the mundane magic of slow mountain life, travelogues from all my almost twenty years of backpacking, poetry, photography, art, inspiration, and tools for your own writing and wayfinding journey through life. I hope that together, we build a community of folks who follow their hearts and stars to a life they love and write about it along the way.
More About Me
I’m a Canadian writer, photographer, and life traveller who has travelled the world for two decades, pursuing personal meaning and self-knowledge. Nowadays, I live in a forest in a remote mountain town in Jalisco, Mexico, with my partner, Jaz, our daughter, Aramara, dog Zorro, cat Luna, and a family of fowl. I spend my days caring for my family, writing, and walking in the woods.
On my website, you can read more about the forest where I live in Mexico, the time I shaved my hair off at a temple in India, and my most popular photo essay about living naked for a month on the Greek island of Gavdos.
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