‘Solvitur ambulando’: It is solved by walking

Hope Walking provides walking journeys for women and men. Modern-day pilgrimages that give you the time and opportunity to reconnect with nature and the environment, reconnect with yourself, time to literally walk your way to better mental and physical health. Invaluable time to restore, revive and reinvigorate your world - and share the experience with like-hearted others.

The business was created by Faye Smith, who is not only passionate about walking in nature, but has personally experienced its power to heal and help her find a new way forward after a series of tragic losses in her life.

About FAYE

Meet Faye Smith, the founder of Hope Walking

“Walking your way back to health works. I know this because I am walking, talking proof of its healing powers.

Experiencing nature. Reconnecting with yourself. Walking with purpose and intention. Sharing the experience with others. It’s got me back on my feet- literally! - after much heartache.

Coming to terms with being adopted as a baby. Surviving a difficult marriage to a controlling man dependent on alcohol. Divorce. The death of my former husband and my beautiful young daughter two years later. Losing my father.

Add to that the pressures of setting up and running my own business, being a single parent, coping with a challenging relationship with the evangelical faith in which I grew up, and a broken engagement, and I’ll admit, it has been a struggle.

Frankly, by the end of 2019, I’d hit rock bottom but a wonderful trauma recovery programme called Rapha Journey in Kent brought me from my home town Sheffield to the historic town of Deal and set me on the road to recovery.

Walking has helped keep me going through the toughest of times and it has helped me find a new way forward.

St Augustine of Hippo is credited as the source of the Latin phrase, ‘Solvitur ambulando’ which translates as ‘It is solved by walking’ and has come to mean a problem solved in a practical way.

It is the essence of Hope Walking, a business I’ve set up to share the healing and empowering experience of walking with other women, offering you the opportunity to deeply connect with yourself, others and the natural world- an opportunity to find your own way forward."

FAYE SMITH

How to book A HOPE WALKING JOURNEY

To book one of our walking journeys, please click on the ‘Book Now’ button under the description of that holiday. After completing the booking enquiry form, we will contact you with details of how to pay direct via a bank transfer.

This is so we can ensure we have the minimum numbers for your Hope Walking activity to take place.