Natasha Serlin

On the pilgrimage, there are 11 other women from around the world, none of whom I've met before, but all with their own personal stories as to why this journey is important for them.

And the doctor didn't know exactly what it was, but it was huge.

It was 13 inches big.

For me, when the invitation to join this pilgrimage landed in my inbox, I took it as a sign.

I was at a moment in my life when I was carrying more than I knew what to do with.

I had lost my mother, been through a divorce and lost someone I loved very deeply.

Our first stop is in Spain.

We're heading to Montserrat to see the Black Madonna, a wooden statue of a Black Virgin Mary which was discovered in a mountain cave by shepherds in the year 880 AD.

We're welcomed by our guides, Leslie Lacabost and Aude Barras.

For as we walk in 12, we get to remember with every step what we are here for.

May every one of our steps be an offering and to deeper surrender into this great beauty.

Oh my goodness.

That is literally the biggest rainbow I have ever seen.

It's incredible.

When my mum died, I kept on seeing rainbows, so this felt like an auspicious sign.

We had come to Montserrat to see the Black Madonna, but already I felt like the pilgrimage had swept me up on a journey into a new world.

Being on the mountain and seeing the rainbow, that made me cry.

That was just so powerful, so beautiful.

And it's my sign from my mum when she died.

Gosh, it's only my first day of pilgrimage and it feels like something profound is happening.