Sole Journey

A compelling memoir of resilience, self-discovery and adventure. From life in New York and across the world to living with a diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis, Patricia Lavelle shares how listening to the body’s wisdom transformed her life and can inspire yours. She crossed oceans looking for somewhere to belong. The hardest journey was learning to trust herself. A chance move to New York. A home once owned by John Lennon. A return to Sydney with no job waiting. Patricia Lavelle embraced the unexpected, yet beneath the adventure lay a familiar feeling: everyone else was moving forward, and she was still catching up. When trauma and a diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis changed her course, she left a corporate career and began again. But a new direction meant confronting old patterns and standing by her choices when others didn’t understand. Retraining in reflexology opened a new chapter, helping others while learning to listen to herself. Through love, loss and unexpected beginnings, she kept following her intuition, without knowing where it would lead. Sole Journey is a candid memoir of adventure, intuition and reinvention. When love brought her back to her hometown after twenty-six years away, Patricia began to see her life differently. What if she had never been behind, but had simply taken the road less travelled?