Less than a month after two book manuscripts and years worth of travel writing and photography were stolen while traveling, Jillian Bright found herself in South America, facing an unplanned pregnancy with a man she loved, but hadn’t seen in four years. 

Now she must choose between the life she thought she always wanted and the woman she wants to become.

In The Trouble with Wings, Jillian traces her meandering journey over a decade and four continents–from making custom bikinis in a bohemian paradise in Costa Rica to living off-grid working with plant medicine in the mountains near her hometown in Northern California…

…Across dozens of countries including train journeys to the remote north or Sri Lanka, hiking the Himalaya in Nepal, camping under the Northern Lights in Iceland and Norway, and listening to an astrologer in Bulgaria predict her unplanned pregnancy.

With unflinching honesty and raw vulnerability, Jillian explores the transformational power of travel and what it really means to let go and fly.