Michaela Strachan, Spencer Matthews, Sonali Shah, Eshaan Akbar, Amanda Lovett, Tom Rosenthal and Christine McGuinness open up on their emotional spiritual journey

Michaela Strachan, Spencer Matthews, Sonali Shah, Eshaan Akbar, Amanda Lovett, Tom Rosenthal and Christine McGuinness open up on their emotional spiritual journey

Immersing themselves on this spiritual journey are: wild life presenter Michaela Strachan who places her faith in the natural world; Spencer Matthews, a former Made in Chelsea reality star, who was christened Church of England but is still searching for answers to life’s big questions; Sonali Shah, a journalist and TV presenter who grew up in a Jain family; comedian Eshaan Akbar, a lapsed Muslim; Amanda Lovett, a practising Catholic, who catapulted into the public eye in the first series of...

The pilgrimage has been totally different to what I expected it to be. I never thought for one minute I’d leave this pilgrimage ready to let my mother go. I’m ready now; after five years I’m going to take her ashes to Ireland and then her soul is free to walk with me or she can go and dance and Irish jig up there, thinking yes, she’s letting me go.

I think one of the biggest changes I came across was when Sonali was explaining her Jainism faith. She explained that each living thing was a soul that had come back to earth. It made me think differently about insects as I used to hate spiders and now, I think of them as little souls, so now I will put them outside and not hoover them up!!

Yes!! I learnt that patience is a virtue! It is easy to make assumptions prior to learning about someone’s background and beliefs, but it is so important to learn about someone’s character.I think I realised my physical weakness during the pilgrimage! By then everyone had opened up emotionally to each other and problems had been let go of. It really felt like a sense of release.

I was hoping to go on this pilgrimage to learn more about others, which I did, but the best thing was learning more about myself, and that was totally unexpected.I have never been religious, I’ve been more spiritual, but I left the pilgrimage with stronger feelings of believing in faith, as in having faith in others, having faith in the universe, and having faith in myself.

This experience has made me feel stronger in the beliefs that I had before I went on pilgrimage, and that is more spiritual than religious, but I definitely feel much stronger knowing that’s where I fit.

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