My Journey Home

At sixty-seven, after a lifetime of responsibility and more than four decades
in a successful career in financial services, Monica R. McCarthy listened
to a quiet voice within-and said yes. What began as a fifty-one-day solo
journey through Bali, Ireland, Spain, the Azores, and Tuscany-and later
continued in Costa Rica-became something far more profound: a journey
inward. Through sacred ceremonies, ancestral connections, unexpected
friendships, moments of grief, spiritual awakening, and the healing wisdom
of her own body, Monica began releasing stories she had carried for
decades and learning to trust herself in an entirely new way. My Journey
Home is not simply a travel memoir. It is an intimate exploration of what
can happen when a woman stops living only by expectation and begins
listening to the quiet voice within. Written with warmth, vulnerability,
and reflection, Monica's story speaks especially to women in midlife and
beyond who may be standing at their own crossroads-wondering who
they are now, what they truly want, and whether it is too late to begin again.
This is a story about courage, healing, trust, and self-discovery. But above
all, it is a reminder that sometimes the journey that takes us farthest from
everything familiar is the one that ultimately leads us home-to ourselves.