The Pilgrimage You Don’t Have to Take
Sonia Choquette walked 500 miles across Spain to heal.
She’d lost her father, her brother, her marriage, and—by her own admission—her sense of self. So she did what many dream of doing but few actually attempt: she packed a bag, flew to France, and started walking the Camino de Santiago.
Her words stuck with me:
“I didn’t walk to find God. I walked to feel safe again.”
That sentence hit me harder than most personal development books ever have.
Because safety—not success—is what most high performers are chasing.
They don’t call it that, of course. They’ll say they want clarity. Momentum. Focus.
But underneath it all? They want to stop fighting their own system.
They want their body to stop bracing for impact.
Here’s what most people don’t realize:
You don’t override stress by outworking it.
You don’t out-journal self-doubt.
And you don’t talk your way into peace.
Because stress isn’t in your head.
It’s in your nervous system.
And your nervous system doesn’t speak English. It speaks emotion.
That’s what Sonia learned on that 500-mile pilgrimage: her nervous system needed time, space, and movement to process grief and fear that had been stored for years.
And you?
You’re probably carrying the same emotional load—but you’re trying to out-think it instead of out-feel it.
Let me give it to you straight:
You don’t need to walk across a country to reset.
You need to erase the emotional charge from your subconscious programming.
That “I’m not good enough” you picked up at 7 years old?
That “Success means I’ll lose everything”?
That “If I slow down, it’ll all fall apart”?
Those aren't thoughts. They're emotional imprints.
And the brain is a pattern-recognition machine.
Your subconscious runs about 500,000 times faster than your conscious mind.
So even if you logically know you’re safe… your system still acts like it’s in danger.
It blocks the client. Cancels the risk. Procrastinates on the opportunity.
Why?
Because it believes emotional pain is waiting on the other side.
Sonia walked 20 miles a day to slowly let go.
I help clients delete the emotional charge in under 4 minutes.
No plane ticket. No hiking boots.
Just a protocol that releases stored emotion from the body timeline—without reliving it.
One founder told me this after our first session:
“I’ve done mindset work for years.
But this was the first time I felt calm in my body without having to earn it.”
He wasn’t broken. He was wired for self-protection.
All we did was deactivate the loop.
You don’t need more discipline.
You need more emotional safety.
You don’t need another mindset shift.
You need your subconscious to stop dragging the past into every present decision.
Sonia’s walk was beautiful. Brave. And it worked.
But for high achievers who don’t have the luxury of 500 miles to process their pain, there’s a faster way home:
🧭 Use Emotional Tools to reset the charge.
🧭 Learn how to feel safe—without burning out to get there.
Start here:
👉 Download the 4-Minute Stress Reset Blueprint
Or book a private call: https://calendly.com/rochellecarrington/discoverysession
Let’s walk you back to yourself—without the blisters.