TRAVEL THERAPY #11: It's Time to Find My Place I didn't have a specific intention before I left for my week in Sydney, but the city quickly set one for me—to find my place. “Once you’ve examined your needs for travel, consider the places that most help you fulfill the [...]
TRAVEL THERAPY #12: This Glutton for Food is Unrepentant Four solid days of eating in New York City has me considering the possibility that I may be a glutton for food. “There is no love sincerer than the love of food.” | GEORGE BERNARD SHAW My latest wander took my [...]
TRAVEL THERAPY #13: Travel is Transforming Me If there was any shred of doubt that the islands of Hawaii—and in particular, Kauai—are one of my greatest teachers, it's gone after my latest wander there. So many lessons learned there—the latest as a result of a trip to Maui and Kauai. [...]
Travel Therapy #31 Introvert Insights & Lessons Learned At 50 years and 7 months of age, I willingly volunteered myself for a 13 day social experiment. I wanted to see what would happen if I, a highly independent introvert, went on a structured hiking tour of the Canadian Rockies with 13 [...]
by Jennifer Dawson Travel as a Tool for Spiritual Growth Can travel foster spiritual awakening, healing and spiritual growth? Absolutely! If travel is already a passion for you, chances are you already know the importance of a rich spiritual life. Indeed, a top reason why so many people travel is [...]
Travel Therapy #5: Finding Your Tribe In this fifth Travel Therapy session, I truly realize the importance of finding your tribe after my recent wander to Corsica with my French "family." "You are truly home only when you find your tribe." SRIVIDYA SRINIVASAN Effortless. That's how it feels to be with my French family. Something that cannot be said of [...]
TRAVEL THERAPY #4: Searching For My Tribe In this fourth Travel Therapy session, I faced a harsh truth after wandering in the California Redwoods and Sequoia National Forest — I really needed to start searching for my tribe. "Above all, be the heroine of your life. Not the victim." NORA EPHRON Since returning from [...]
TRAVEL THERAPY #3: Passion is Not a Dirty Word In this third Travel Therapy session, I mull over my taste of passion after wandering for a couple of weeks in the Belize Rainforest and Reef and the Costa Rica Rainforest. My conclusion? Passion is NOT a dirty word! "...above all, my beautiful, peculiar, translucent child - be passionate. It matters [...]
TRAVEL THERAPY #2: Goodbye to Yesterday In this second Travel Therapy session, I share some of the realizations I had after wandering for 10 days around the tiny island of Cyprus. The biggest realization...I really must say goodbye to yesterday. "I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then." LEWIS CARROLL Joining my husband [...]
TRAVEL THERAPY #1:Is Prozac the Answer???In my very first Travel Therapy session, I expose my perturbed state of mind just before I began to wander with any sense of regularity and purpose and ponder the question "Is Prozac the answer???". We all have to start somewhere, right? "I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self [...]
