Hi, I’m Kelly!

I’m a serial tea drinker, outdoor photographer, wannabe writer, and mad creative. I share about my travels on my blog, Go Find Water, and you can find my outdoor photography work on my Instagram.

I’ve been featured in different Belgian magazines and won a Nikon Female Facets award. I’ve been writing about personal development in my newsletter since 2023, and the best gift you can give me is chocolate, Belgian, of course!

Growing up, I stuck out like a sore thumb, and I couldn't understand why. I was ridiculed for wearing flared jeans with floral embroidery, and now they are all the rage! What?! I was light years ahead with my fashion sense! and I guess my peers couldn't handle it, so they mocked me, but who's laughing now?

2013 was a big year for me. I signed up to volunteer as a photography teacher in Varanasi, India. It was the first time that I left the borders of Europe and all on my own. It’s impossible to describe the impact this trip had on me. I made friends for life, had a bout of explosive diarrhea (through my own cooking skills, HA!), and drank delicious chai every day (the real deal, not the fake powders they sell everywhere now).

After 1 month in India, I couldn’t settle back in Belgium, so my boyfriend and I left for a Working Holiday in Australia. He became just as addicted to traveling as me, and we did another Working Holiday, but this time in Canada. We eventually traveled for 2,5 years, from getting our diving license in Thailand and getting drunk in the Sky Bar in Kuala Lumpur to having found paradise in the Philippines.

Coming back was hard.

While my boyfriend started his career right away, I was feeling stuck. I had no idea what I wanted to do with life. What was my purpose? I had a Bachelor’s in Photography, but I couldn’t earn any money with this hobby, right?

I needed to find a job, but nothing appealed to me. I took course after course and job after job, following every interest that popped into my head, but I never found my ‘one thing’. It was disheartening.

I was left with anxiety, depression, PTSD, and eventually a late ADHD diagnosis. I got addicted to reading personal development books because my 6! therapists couldn’t help me or gave me all the wrong advice, which ended up making everything so much worse.

When somebody suggested to me I should do something with my photos, I went in another direction. Maybe the perfect job didn’t exist for me, so I had to create one for myself. I wish I could say that everything went smoothly after that realization, but alas, it didn’t.


For years, I thought photography was my thing, and I should be a professional photographer working for brands. But I’m just not sure if that’s enough. There’s always this feeling of not fulfilling my creative purpose, like I’m meant to do more.

And that’s what I’m now trying to do. Instead of choosing 1 thing like society tells us to, I’m creating something unique by combining my skills and interests.

I don’t know what that is yet, but please join me on my journey to fulfill my life’s purpose. I’m doing a HUGE experiment this year by creating 12 projects in 12 months. If you want to know more, you can read about it here and subscribe to my newsletter to get updates on how it’s going.

words to live by

‘Born to be Different’

5 things about me

My favorite tea?
Chinese Jasmine Tea

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When I was young, I loved to chew on these super tiny leaves from a certain bush, and I also tasted my share of wild, non-edible berries. I guess I loved to explore the world with my mouth.

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I LOVE reading, especially smutty fantasy books! I’m really into The Empyrean series right now. I mean Fourth Wing was just soo good!

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I hate the word ‘consistency’; I like to think of myself as consistently inconsistent.

I’m a Sagittarius, and I 100% relate to my sign. Honest to a fault, adventurous, and a desire to change the world.

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