Tap into Your Divine Design a new way to use Personality Typing

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Tap into your DivineDesign a new way to use personality typing, which I believe is essential to help you discover your path to purpose. This concept is integral to a book that I’ll soon be releasing entitled; Unpack Your Personality.©️ The idea for the book was presented to me during my spiritual awakening, an awakening that […]

2020 The Year of Revisioning Yourself a New

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2020 the year of revisioning yourself anew. To see things with great clarity (2020 vision). It’s about releasing Matrix momentsthat bring enlightenment and help us understand what’s truly important and meaningful. I’m wondering if the pandemic as been seeded in the world right now, giving us all a forced time-out to go deeper ⏤ to […]

Twenty Reasons Why Travel is Good For Your Soul

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Twenty reasons why travel is good for your soul include a few reasons I’m authoring Unpack Your Personality.©️ Personality typing is foundational. It’s the key to your awakening. Your personality type is a gift helping you to recognize your essential self ⏤ who you really are. The similarities to travel are remarkable. I see travel […]

Ten Simple Ways To Inspire Happy Travel This Thanksgiving

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Ten Simple Ways to Inspire Happy Travel This Thanksgiving There was a time when Thanksgiving travel filled me with dread and a deep desire for perfection. I’d become a one-woman chaos creator—running from stove to suitcase, trying to keep everyone happy. My mom did the same, bless her heart. With five kids trailing behind, she […]

Are You in a Travel Rut?

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Are you in a travel rut? If you start making plans without thought to your soul-self and you’re using habits of yesteryear, I’d say you’re in a rut. Do you make decisions based more on what you’ve traditionally done in the past? Oh-oh, living on rut lane. 😏 Let me define traditional. I’m referring to; […]

The Magic of Slow Travel in a Disconnected World

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The Magic of Slow Travel in a Disconnected World Updated June 24, 2024 A few years ago, I was sitting at a café in Paris — you know the kind, where the air smells faintly of espresso, butter, and possibility. I had nowhere to be and nothing pressing to do. Just me, my thoughts, and […]

Navigate a Delightful, New, and Inspirational Way to Vacation

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Navigate a delightful, new and inspirational way to vacation came to me as I put the finishing touches on the Playful Traveler, one of the 16 travel personalities, I’m developing. It starts with a deep study into the world of personality typing. The Playful travel captivated me. Their style of travel embraces vacations; joyfully, and […]

How to Travel Tips for Introverts + Extroverts

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Do you seek happier vacations? Then you’ll want to unlock these practical travel tips for introverts and extroverts. Ever wondered what the hell your travel partner is thinking? Their babbling away, trying to talk through a travel hiccup, and you’re like, STOP talking. They’re probably an extrovert while you’re an introvert. Knowing this simple fact […]

Why Is This Happening to Me? Why is He/She such a Jerk?

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Why is this happening to me? Why is he/she such a jerk? Have you ever uttered these questions while on vacation? Have you ever experienced tension while away? To be honest, I think we all have. Vacations, while highly romanticized on social and in the media, can be a time of great stress and tension. […]

Unpack the Secrets of Your Unique Travel Personality

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I still remember the first time I truly traveled with myself. Not the kind of trip where you juggle flight times, please others, and fight over who’s in charge of GPS, but the kind where your soul’s in the driver’s seat. I was on a solo trip, standing at an airport coffee kiosk, half‑awake, and this thought […]