In a coffee shop in Baltimore, Chloë saw her former boyfriend with his new partner and baby.

Not long after, she booked a trip to the Lofoten Islands in northern Norway, without fully understanding why.

She had no real plan. No clear reason for going. Only a pull toward a place she did not yet understand.

She owned no hiking boots, and had no idea that the journey would reshape the course of her life.

That trip planted a seed.

She returned and tried to resume a life she recognized, moving to Seattle and continuing her career. But something had broken open.

She resigned her career, left that life behind, and moved to Virginia, where she spent five years alone in the woods in sustained meditation and solitude.

From there, her path unfolded further: apprenticing with Indigenous healers in Peru for over a decade, and later being guided back north to live above the Arctic Circle.

There, she spent months alone in the wilderness, moving with the land and discovering a form of intimacy and presence that reshaped her understanding of life, love, and belonging.