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Hello and welcome to all of you beautiful souls out there in the world!
My name is Christine Riel and I'm a botanist and coach for highly sensitive women. I moved from Germany to Sweden in 2018 and the last years became the deep journey to myself.
All I found is a deeper connection to feminity, the woman's cycle, a life with nature and the magic in all of it. I feel connected to both the northern nature and nordic pagans. I dive deep into the soul of nature, create food art with wild herbs and meditative journeys which I want to share with my videos on this channel.
My vision is to build up a retreat for sensitive women that nourishes both the body and soul. I want to take you with me and share this progress how my house slowly will turn into this safe space.
Thank you that you are on this earth amd welcome to my journey 💜
My name is Christine Riel and I'm a botanist and coach for highly sensitive women. I moved from Germany to Sweden in 2018 and the last years became the deep journey to myself.
All I found is a deeper connection to feminity, the woman's cycle, a life with nature and the magic in all of it. I feel connected to both the northern nature and nordic pagans. I dive deep into the soul of nature, create food art with wild herbs and meditative journeys which I want to share with my videos on this channel.
My vision is to build up a retreat for sensitive women that nourishes both the body and soul. I want to take you with me and share this progress how my house slowly will turn into this safe space.
Thank you that you are on this earth amd welcome to my journey 💜
Why am I not happy in my Swedish Life? | Mindful Sweden Travel Vlog
Since years I asked myself what life is about and which things can make me happy. This became to a life task for me. I needed to find a meaning in my human beeing. In this video we go on a roatrip through Sweden where we searched for answers.
If you want to support me, I'm glad about your donation for my campaign to get rid of my dental health issues:
► Crowdfunding: gofund.me/64d3f384
Thank you from the bottom of my heart ♥
❤️ MY WORLD on Instagram: @fjallsken
📷 MY PRINTLER GALLERY
printler.com/en/print-shop/25593-christine-riel/
📕 MY BOOKS (German language) on Thalia:
www.thalia.de/shop/home/artikeldetails/A1069499195
www.thalia.de/shop/home/artikeldetails/A1071305835
🎵 All the MUSIC in this video is from Epidemicsound. Listen to all the tracks of my Happiness Roadtrip series:
www.epidemicsound.com/playlist/rzobvuffa7hb54bkp8nu9n7hgzwwvgum/
If you want to support me, I'm glad about your donation for my campaign to get rid of my dental health issues:
► Crowdfunding: gofund.me/64d3f384
Thank you from the bottom of my heart ♥
❤️ MY WORLD on Instagram: @fjallsken
📷 MY PRINTLER GALLERY
printler.com/en/print-shop/25593-christine-riel/
📕 MY BOOKS (German language) on Thalia:
www.thalia.de/shop/home/artikeldetails/A1069499195
www.thalia.de/shop/home/artikeldetails/A1071305835
🎵 All the MUSIC in this video is from Epidemicsound. Listen to all the tracks of my Happiness Roadtrip series:
www.epidemicsound.com/playlist/rzobvuffa7hb54bkp8nu9n7hgzwwvgum/
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My first Q&A: Soulretreat? Am I rich? Socializing?
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Be kind to each other. You never know the whole story that a person went through. We always just see the peak of an ice mountain. If you want to support me, I'm glad about your donation for my campaign to get rid of my dental health issues: ► Crowdfunding: gofund.me/64d3f384 Thank you from the bottom of my heart ♥ ❤️ MY WORLD on Instagram: @fjallsken 📷 MY PRINTLER GALLERY printler.com/en/print-...
Intuitive Ecstatic Dance in Nordic Nature | Mindful Movement for Stress and Anxiety Release
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Intuitive dance is an important tool for the nervesystem of highly sensitive women to process emotions that can be overwhelming. Every time when I feel down I spend time in this incredible northern nature where I can connect with myself and heal my soul. For me mindful movement is a way of meditation to help releasing stress, fears and anxieties and beeing more happy in this intense life. You c...
Why I Moved to Sweden | 5 Years after Leaving Germany
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Depression was one of the reasons why I left Germany behind and moved to Northern Sweden. As a highly sensitive person trying to build up an own business and making money in the Swedish countryside, I can tell you that everything in life can just be so overwhelming and the easiest things can make life hard. I hope I can give you some inspirations for your own life journey 💫✨ If you want to supp...
The Home of the Giants | Forest Walk in Northern Sweden
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If you want to support me, I'm glad about your donation for my campaign to get rid of my dental health issues: ► Crowdfunding: gofund.me/64d3f384 Thank you from the bottom of my heart ♥ My name is Christine and I am a botanist with a passion for cooking and using wild herbs for women's nutrition. My VISION is to create a soul retreat that I will someday host in my Swedish paradise. I hope that ...
The Deep Story Behind my House Cleaning | Mindful Sweden Vlog
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If you want to support me I'm glad about your donation for my campaign to get rid of my dental health issues: ► Crowdfunding: gofund.me/64d3f384 Thank you from the bottom of my heart ♥ My name is Christine and I am a botanist with a passion for cooking and using wild herbs for women's nutrition. My VISION is to create a soul retreat that I will someday host in my Swedish paradise. I hope that I...
We are NOT Afraid of Anything | Swedish Cabin Life
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Without any obligations and just if it feels right for you I'm glad for your donation: ► Crowdfunding: gofund.me/64d3f384 Thank you from the bottom of my heart ♥ My name is Christine and I am a botanist with a passion for cooking and using wild herbs for women's nutrition. My VISION is to create a soul retreat that I will someday host in my Swedish paradise. I hope that I can give you inspirati...
Just a normal Midsummer in Sweden
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Finally summer is here. All the birds are singing, nature is in full bloom and the best about this season - being able to dance between all these beautiful flowering meadows 🫶😁 Without any obligations and just if it feels right for you I'm glad for your donation: ► Crowdfunding: gofund.me/64d3f384 Thank you from the bottom of my heart ♥ My name is Christine and I am a botanist with a passion fo...
How I Deal with Emotions | Magic in my Swedish Cottage Life
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I would like to share with you my story of hardships that I suffer as a free spirit and a person following its heart. A simple life in Sweden is everything, but not easy. I also show how I deal with all these negative emotions and hopefully you will get some inspirations. It was the beautiful artist from France @VerdantVanille who inspired me with her motivational video: th-cam.com/video/bTiRfx...
Why I chose THIS Swedish Cabin | HOUSE TOUR
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I live alone in a Swedish countryside house and it became the house of my dreams. This cozy cabin spreads the perfect atmosphere of ease that my heart was longing for. It is a simple life in here and there is a lot to do, repair and renovate. The water supply is a big issue. But still I feel comfortable in my new home. So welcome to a little house tour! Without any obligation, just if it feels ...
How I Embrace my Femininity | A Call for Help
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How I found Connection and a Safe Space | Swedish Countryside
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Nourish your Body and Soul | Forest Chocolates
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From a Crisis to a Deep Vision | New Chapter in Sweden
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My Journey of Healing | Inspiration from Ancient Woods
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Broken Life and a New Dream | Moving in my own Swedish Cottage
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Autumn in Northern Sweden | Nature in Abisko
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Life in Abisko | Working in the Swedish Mountains
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Nordic Winter | Searching for Signs of Spring
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Our Life in Northern Sweden | Far away from Corona
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Selfmade Drone | Swedish-styled Improvisation
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Simple Swedish Life | Baking Bread with Vegetables
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Return of the Light | Viking Yule in Northern Sweden
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I love that you are being so honest. In many ways it is harder to live the "remote country life", many have romantic ideas about it, not grounded in reality and the hard work it requires, things we take for granted. The upside is the beautiful surroundings, a nurishment to the soul...
Thank you for your words 🙏🦋
Please show more😊
:)
happiness is everywhere. We will feel them when the time comes😊💓
@@claudiaopitz6162 that's true 💜🦋
Have spent most of my life moving around to find exactly the happiness I was looking for that I didn't really know was supposed to contain. Nothing always helped, something I could find that I thought didn't work. We forget what life is and to live in just the present. But after I was diagnosed with aggressive kidney cancer at the end of 2022 and had the kidney with a mega tumor removed. Of subsequently started getting knots everywhere and losing the sense of touch from the navel down, including the feet. As well as excruciating pain around the clock that no medicine can remove. yes, I must say that my happiness and my life now is.. If only I could get well. Get rid of this incredible disorder that has made my life socially dead. People flee because where did Maria become, always busy with many things, and always positive and happy. Super sensitive empath who always helped my friends and family. But never really the other way around. And not at all now. No one cares except my 27 year old son. I don't see my 2 daughters aged 31 0g 42, they live abroad. But the fact that mother is ill does not make them come. And here I didn't want to think about myself at all, but my son who needs support from siblings. No, the joy and happiness of life is health security, a roof over your head and freedom. Because it disappears completely when you can no longer take the car out of the blue. Or trot as I used to with the dog. Yes, always in nature. If I could get a miracle and be myself again, I would never in my life complain again and move around thinking the grass is greener somewhere else. Illness is hell, illness is depressing and lonely. I can't offer a new man as a boyfriend my condition therefore I know this is not going to happen. I have to make the most of every day and enjoy the bit I can. In the end, you are your own luck maker and you cannot live your happiness through others. Hope you can see what I basically mean by what I'm writing and that you can't really define happiness for example traveling or 100 other things. but the most important thing is one's health and that determines so much for one. Good luck, take care of yourself sweetie and be well. The warmest thoughts and loving greetings Liv Maria😘🙏❤
@@livmaria942 sending you lots of love 💜 I agree that health is so important for a deep happiness as well as real connections to people. A life without constant pain, fears or sorrows is something that we cannot buy. A lot of circumstances in life have an huge impact on this fact and as you said we are our own luck makers. Big hugs 🤗
In my view the key to happiness is having no expectations or judgements…. Just being in the present.
@@Ladythyme I agree 🙏
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The Swedes have a gone thru 500 yrs of trauma, and opression, from merchants Like Axel Oxentjerna, and Magnus Gabriel de la Gardie whom acted like kings and demanded the farmers and the people to pay tax 50% of their earnings, and the kings did'nt bother aslong they got a part of it, therefore many swedes left for america in the 1800's NOT because bad farming conditions, Nowdays the powers that still is here family "W" "ese non videri" is sucking out the last energy of the swedes,...sweden is debt-saturated completly and soon to failure, there are still some swedes that know, and they vill build the new sweden on fair premises, but first we need to wake up, to reality,..then there vill be a paradise,....Thanks for doing this video, it reminds us to look around what really happiness is,...<3<3<3 =) cheers
I think you have found your way to happiness with this roadtrip. Keep going an you stay in happiness😊❤
Come to South Africa!!!
Come to "Via Transilvanica"
Шикарное видео, от души, благодарю. Всем добра и позитива. Обнял!
@@RusVolvo 🙏 It always makes me happy to read your words 🌸
@@fjallsken Kiitos!
About your question; only you will have the answer. May you find your true north, and live according to your innermost values. Happiness will come and go, like a butterfly that visits a flower. But the meaning that you give to your life will stabilize it around a core. I hope you will find what you seek, and that you will share your journey with real people, people of your tribe, when ever you meet them, for a long or a short period. Van Morrison sings: "When heart is open, you're gonna change just like a flower slowly opening." I hope you can learn about your mission and path in life in Sweden as well as you could any other place... where ever you are the most important essense is present! All the best wishes for your future!
@@DNA350ppm wonderful words 🙏🦋 so true.
Thank you for your honest thougths, much appreciated. Every pet has the right to be kept in a species-appropriate manner. Highly sensitive people should also be allowed to live in an environment that is appropriate for them.
@@Jattebra-br2sz 🙏💜🌸
Very cool love to fish with you!!! Now kantareller is coming up, greatings from Lidingö
Good luck with the musquitos, people make each other creazy about Sverige 😮
@@hansmiddelburg1366 everyone makes his/her own experiences in this country and everyone has an own background 😊
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Too cute for this world😊❤
Thank you for answering my questions!❤️🙏
@@alexandra-sl8bl 🙏💜
See you soon in your next video . Tack så mycket 🥰💝 fore your video
@@claudiaopitz6162 thank you 💜🙏
Благодарю за интересное видео. От души. Тебе привет из Великой России, хоть сейчас я и живу в Финляндии. Будь здорова и счастлива. Обнял!
@@RusVolvo thank you so much 🙏 very interesting that you live in Finnland now!
I think many people confuse vulnerability with loneliness. You can be surrounded by people but still not have someone make tea when sick,lift what you struggle with. They also think our achievements are given. They see the house not the time,the bespoke alpaca sweater not the drop spindle and decades of experience. Good luck to you
I very much agree….money is necessary but very rarely brings personal wealth. Richness comes from all of the things you mentioned. & It’s the little things that fulfill the inner being Big hugs. (Btw I love listening to you….this may sound a bit weird but your German accent brings me back to my childhood and people I have lost. My father and most of his relatives came to the from Germany to the U.S. during WWII and I grew up with listening to them all never having lost their accents…when i listen to you it’s like be embraced their sounds & brings them all back ❤)
@@Ladythyme It makes me deeply happy and I feel honored that my accent reminds you on your relatives 💜 thanks for your words 🙏
Oh, I would love to turn the energy in your guestroom into positive vibes again ❤️
@@AndreaKirchner-g5h you are welcome everytime 💜🙏
Du gör ett jättebra jobb kämpa på
Thank you for revealing the real life in Sweden!
Your house looks really cozy,😍 and yes, you always have plans because you know what you want.🧐🤔 Knows it so well but also expensive to renovate and more. It also seems that as the years go by you suddenly get other ideas, so maybe just stay in the house for a while and find the right solutions instead of just quickly getting something fixed. Also love special things and homemade gifts. They mean more than purchased cases. But you have painted your house black now instead. It's also nice, so you must have red hollyhocks to climb up the wall, it looks incredibly cosy.😆 Thanks for the nice video. A hug for you.❤🙏😊🦋🦋🥀🌻
@@livmaria942 so true! Ideas, visions and perspectives of life changes over time and it is never good to do an impulsive short-time solution 💜 I feel this now more than ever before. Thanks for your words 🙏🌸
Hi. Can say it was as if it were me sitting there. I am totally just as sensitive and have always felt wrong and everything in the world was not right. Here I mean the way people live as slaves to the system. You have to fit into a box or you're just awkward and weird. I've been a rebel since I was little and still am. Had 3 children who are all grown up now and great they are all thriving. But I don't. Have tried living 6 kilometers inside a forest but unfortunately had to move as it was a limited contract of a few years. Now for 11 years I live down to the North Sea and the fjord with a nature reserve, A small peninsula, but they have destroyed everything with wind turbines 1500 meters from my house which cause stress and tinnitus, Mega gravel pit also close by that makes noise around the clock. About to give up and want to move out of here as soon as I can find something and have enough money. I can follow you all the way, feel you in my soul because I see and feel everything. Have helped many in life because of my ability. I'm looking in Sweden for something but have become cautious now that this place has been totally destroyed. But nice to listen to you and you are thoroughly a lovely lovable person. I wish you the very best going forward and take good care of yourself and your energy. Will follow you as I feel a soulmate. Have a great time. many loving thoughts and greetings from Liv Maria. Denmark.😊❤🙏🌻🍀🦋
@@livmaria942 I am so glad that you follow my journey 🙏💜 I can imagine the intensity of your struggles and I also understand what you are longing for. A quiet place in nature is so important for recharching the batteries and to find back to ourselfs. It makes me sad that there is so much destruction in the world. I'm deeply impressed how you made your life as a sensitive person with 3 kids 💜 thank you for your warm words. Sending big hugs to you 🙏🌸
@@fjallsken Thank you for your kind words. well, it has also been difficult with children and, not to lie, I took a boy into care when he was 10 years old and would otherwise have ended up in an orphanage until adulthood. But he was mostly with me and my son, who was the same age. The girls were adults there. Today he is a trained pavers and works in construction. Yes, the world is being destroyed and I am so angry about it, the government does what suits them without the opinion of the people. Can you have a good weekend and hope you have good weather because here it is almost not summer. More like autumn, with rain and rain. Needs warmth and the sun before we have to go through an autumn and long winter. Big hug from me Liv Maria.🙂
@@livmaria942 I send you some summer vibes 💜🌸
Imorgon ska jag fortsätta titta på din vackra video 💗💙💜
@@claudiaopitz6162 🙏💜
@@fjallsken sehr, sehr ausgewogen kombinierst du die Natur , die Musik und dein Tanz. 💚💙💜
Yes one needs to take care of day to day life no matter where one lives….conquer life’s burdens, pay bills, make a living. That’s a given and needs to be accepted no matter who you are. The environment one lives in and one’s surroundings however play a supportive part in one’s success and perspective of one’s own existence. Some feel most comfortable in big cities with lots of people around…others dread it….some feel at home where the sky is open and the wind blows through the trees and lets one breathe; others feel too isolated… one must find what feels most like “home” to their heart and learn how to thrive and live day to day in that environment. If one has found the place that makes their heartstrings ping, and can actually be fortunate enough to call it home, then they are privileged above the many. There really isn’t much else for them to do but Accept and be grateful for the beautiful gift which has embraced them. ❤❤❤…and yes Work is good for the soul… big hugs… remember you don’t know how strong you can be, until you can be nothing but strong….all will work out…step by step…day by day
@@Ladythyme thank you for your words 🙏 there is so much truth in it 💜
It's beautiful!
@@marija-life 🙏💜
Being real, authentic and honest with no theatrical influences or promoted sense of perfection is most refreshing
Да, большая и важная работа проделана вами во дворе дома, это безусловно важно. Хорошо, что у Вас есть такой умелый и отзывчивый сосед швед, который многое умеет делать самостоятельно, и он помогает Вам. Низкий поклон, от души. Будьте здоровы. Обнял!
@@RusVolvo thank you so much for your warm words 💜🌸 I feel so grateful to found a neighbour who is helping me with so much things here. Without those people this lifestyle wouldn't be possible for me. Big hugs to you 🙏
Хорошее имя Вилла Норна, мне нравится. Всё получится. Будь здорова и прекрасна. Обнял!
@@RusVolvo thank you so much 🙏💜
I appreciate how you're just being yourself and speak what's on your mind. Thank you!
I wonder how far up north you are. Somehow I get this feeling you're not too far from Tärnaby. Oh well, I guees you could be in Jämtland too...
@@beorlingo yes it is Jämtland 🙈😊 I live near Sollefteå.
I love your story. Thank you. ❤❤❤
@@HarmonyGraceElohim thank you so much 💜🌸
Making your home is stressful I bought a small house that needed alot of TLC and extra money $20,000 for things that couldn’t wait also finding people to do the work and it’s still not done lol I live almost in the countryside in a beautiful little city I also deal with winter in the summer the large trees bordering my backyard fence gives me joy and that’s what it’s all about 😊
@@ceehunka7344 thank you for sharing your story 🙏 I agree with your words. I can find joy in my beautiful wild yard, too and this is definitely what life is about 💜
You are amazing ❤
@@marija-life thank you 💜🙏
I love your kitty enclosure! They look very happy in there. Good job!😊
@@elizabethherman6822 they come and visit me sometimes and it is so cute that they feel like home in my house 😄
❤❤❤ u strong. Kp it up 🙏🙏
Let the willd nature free your soul. Ever tried art-painting? Pick upp your writing? Make time for your spirit to blossom.
❤ I make different paintings and in one of my older videos I showed my first try with acryl pouring 😊 I also wrote books (German language) with my paintings
You are a very courageous and authentic young woman! I sense that the sensitivity that you are describing is link to being 'Gifted'! Please google : traits of a gifted child ,and traits of gifted adults! Greetings & a big hug from a Berliner that used to vacation in Denmark with my family as a child and took trips to Sweden! I live for almost 40 years in the USA and it has not been easy!!
Your words are like balm for my soul ❤ It make me feel more accepted if people can understand my sensitivity and not jugding me for my emotions 🙏 And it is really inspiring that you are going your path for such a long time. I can imagine that you could fill books with a lot of inspiring life stories 😊
<3 Life is a battle and you can never ever know if you win or you loose. Im happy my country makes you more alive and know this your now one of us. <3
Thank you 🙏 you have noticed the positive message that I tried to spread ❤
Sweden is sooooo boooring😢😢😢
Mabey you too?
@@christianlundberggymnasies1292 😂Maby
Your 5 years have been a tough reality-check for you! You sure have grown in independence and stamina. I'm glad you took a Swedish course before you moved to Sweden. Even if many Swedes know English and understand quite a lot, for most who learned English at school, it does not feel relaxed to talk in English, one struggles to find the words, and one feels dishonest and strange, when one can't express what one wants to share - the communication is not fluent and clear, as in Swedish when speaking in English, the nuances tend not to come out right. It is so awkward for Swedes who tend to be very honest, beyond "how do yo do?" If you want to feel more at home in Sweden, do learn more Swedish, as we have enough lonely people who would love to have a friend. Many people are HSP also in Sweden, so if you would like to be understood on that level, the possibility is there. I think it was a good step to come out as one. Hope a like-minded spirit will contact you asap! 🙂 Otherwise there is Röda Korsets väntjänst, google that, it is a good starting point. All the best wishes!
@@DNA350ppm thank you for sharing your thoughts 🙏 It is definitely interesting to hear how Swedish people think about speaking English and I can imagine that there are a lot of people out there who a searching for contacts, too. In this way the web is a plus to get to know these people.
@@fjallsken Sure, and you have a right to your boundaries and the rest you need. Even introverts need a few real relationships. Hope they will come your way, now that you have opened up to the possibility. Life tends to be like that.🙂 Ruminate a bit over different possibilities to make enough money to make your preferred life-style work: develop ideas around suggestins like - could you offer German translations to small Swedish businesses who would like to have German customers, tourists or on-line; - could you offer one (!) parking slot for one camping van on your property for female tourists every second week; - if you like pets, could you take in one shy, kind pet at the time for a short time when the owners need a little help with the care; - could you pick wild mushrooms (tratt-kantareller), dry them whole and sell them; - could you crochet blankets at times when you need to think your own thoughts, and sell them at crafts-markets - it is easy to put up a stand on market-days (google you municipality) - incomes from hobbies are tax-free in Sweden, - btw: you do allow wood to dry before you try to saw or chop them for burning? - could you continue to live frugally, simply, and make a little pocket-money by combining some ideas like these? I recommend inspiring ideas from TH-camr 'Prepper princess' and others. You are are creative, you will come up with something practical, when you let you dreams take their time and work on it. Maybe you'll write a story about a brave little girl in the 1800-hundreds who with her little magical cat survives in the woods, like a Robinson, after she escaped mean fosterparents - read just a little about Harry Martinson's early childhood and the way Sweden then solved the problem with poor orphan children, by hiring them out to the lowest bidder. Shudder! Let your heroine escape such a destiny... just an idea! You might have better ones! All the best wishes!