A Mountain Mermaid.

Home is where your heart is — and your heart is in your ribs. Until you can feel at home in yourself, regardless of circumstance, you will wander the earth.

When I left the Wild Coast and my marriage, I asked where home would be. That was the answer Spirit gave me.

After 14 months of living on the road (I still don’t quite know how I did that), I want to say I have found HOME, and a place to invest in. A place to sink my toes into the mud, build something proper, and let something real take root.

Through a series of magical, charmed, and strange coincidences, I am here — in Hogsback, indefinitely. Everyone said it was magical before I got here, and I agree. It’s one of those places that lands in the body before it makes sense in the mind. It reminds me of that welsh word, Hiraeth, pronounced, HEER-eye-th” or “HEER-eyeth, and meaning, deep longing for something, especially one’s home. I don’t want to jump the gun, but Hogsback is scratching that itch. Few places do that for me— hence 14 months of wandering.

I’ve had to admit that while I do have a burning desire to travel, I want a community to come home to. You know, sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name vibes... (No doubt I’ve dated myself with that reference - ha ha!)

I’ve wandered. And now I’m here — on the doorstep of what I asked for, prepared for, and quietly made myself available to receive. And that’s the point — I did. I wasn’t just wandering around for 14 months looking for a home outside myself— I was busy making a home INSIDE MYSELF.

We create the realities we inhabit. Every minute of every day, Life moves through us, and we make room for it. Or we don’t.

As well as landing somewhere that feels like home, I’ve landed in an internal landscape that says, “I’m not interested in being better or healed.”

I’m interested in being True.

True, Open, Kind — and alive to what wants to move through me.

Life becomes us.

I’m not interested in speed.

I’m interested in velocity.

And fun. And safety. And risk.

And being on purpose.

2026 is the year I finish what I started.

What I’m working on

How to Become a Mermaid in 13 Short Stories: A Guide to Spiritual Practice

This is the first project I’m wrapping up — a book of short stories written during a period of deep transition, now becoming a guide to short story writing as spiritual practice.

Fiction, not as performance, but as a way to metabolise life and choose differently.

If that speaks to you, and you want to be kept abreast, step into the field here:

👉 https://stella-madre.kit.com/8d36dac956

Force of Nature (Feature Film)

This year, I’m also writing my feature film through a 12-month mentorship with Natasje of The Storyteller Pod. While it sounds like I’m starting something, this is actually fleshing out work I’ve been doing.

Force of Nature explores multiplicity, embodiment, and what it actually takes to become whole after fragmentation — not as metaphor, but as lived reality.

Ways we can work together

Resonance Readings

I’m opening my calendar for a very small number of one-on-one Resonance Readings — precise, spacious sessions for tuning into the deeper story shaping your choices.

More info here:

👉 https://www.stellamadremakesmagick.com/service-page/resonance-reading

Yoga — The Body Becomes

Yoga is back online. Weekly. Simple. Embodied.

Story and body, together again. This is by invitation only - if this tickles your fancy - ask me about it.

So here I am — in Hogsback — building slowly, deliberately, and with care. I’m going to be doing yoga, readings, and workshops here, in person and in presence. I am so excited I can barely breathe, and if it weren’t for my excellent pelvic floor, I could pee a little in my pants!

If something here tickled you, you’re welcome to reply, reach out, or join me where it makes sense. And please share. I am actively using my voice because that’s how you become a mermaid, my dear.

With mountains of love,

Happy Stella, in Hogsback.

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