With her new book, “Wanderlust”, Karen Gershowitz embraces curiosity to step into the unknown for more meaningful travel experiences.
Women’s Stories
Overcoming Fear
Real advice on how to find yourself again and overcome fear
Stories About Overcoming Fear
Women’s Travel Memoirs: Women Authors Share Their Solo Journeys
Join us on May 25 to learn about these four inspiring solo travel memoirs written by women from the JourneyWoman community.
Grief and Solo Travel: A Mother’s Memoir to Heal Her Heart
Author Becky Livingston shares the story of losing her 23-year old daughter, Rachel, and the solo journey that helped her to start healing.
Weekend in Bath: The Perfect Getaway for First-Time Solo Travellers
With its Georgian architecture, thermal spas and lush gardens, Bath, UK is the perfect getaway for solo women seeking ‘me’ time.
How Solo Travellers Can Transform Loneliness Into A Gift
Solo traveller Sue Janzen shares her advice to plan for loneliness, transforming it into a beautiful gift.
Preparing for Your First Post-Pandemic Trip: Travel Advice From Women
Advice from women who have been travelling to help you prepare for a new world of travel starting with having the right mindset.
What Living in Mexico Taught Me About Trust, Joy and Gratitude During the Pandemic
Living in Mexico during the pandemic offered the opportunity to discover the soul of this country, independence and curiosity.
Expert Tips for Women to Manage Travel Fear and Anxiety
Master life coach Debbie Phillips shares her expert tips for women to manage travel fear and anxiety in a post-pandemic world.
How Travel Changes Us: Writing a Love Letter to Our Younger Self
Have you ever written a love letter to your younger self about travel? These women did, and celebrated self-love and wisdom.
Finding Renewal in New Zealand: How I Overcame my Fear of Travelling Solo Again
After the death of her husband Gabe in 2018, the prospect of going through life solo filled Amanda with dread. She faced her grief, anger and loneliness in a two-week solo travel adventure in New Zealand.
How Women Find Healing and Renewal in Solo Travel
When faced with loss or grief, we intuitively turn to travel for wellness and healing, as shown in these inspirational stories of renewal.
How I Rediscovered my Solo Travel Mojo in New Zealand’s South Island
In the first installment in a new New Zealand series, Editor Amanda Burgess chronicles her two-week solo travel adventure through New Zealand’s South Island – the crazy things she did on her ‘Adrenaline Junkie’ tour, the friends she made, and her insights about this breathtaking country, its people, and herself.
Solo Travel Memoirs: Marion’s Indomitable Spirit
A seasoned solo traveller shares her earliest travel inspirations, youthful escapades, how to stay independent when travelling as a couple, and finding hope through travel after being widowed.
Newly Widowed? Tips for Women Traveling Together
The friendship of women, especially over age 65, is invaluable. They have seen both the joys and sorrow of life and are so ready to be in the moment.
Christine Osbourne’s Fearless Memoir “Travels with My Hat” Takes you on a Solo Tour of the Middle East
Beloved by solo travellers, ‘Travels with My Hat: A Lifetime on the Road,’ by Australian Christine Osborne, is an incredible story of a fearless, brave woman, who travelled to remote areas of Ethiopia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iraq, Pakistan, and Morocco at a time well before the Internet, travel guides and mass tourism.
Solo Travel Over 80: Life Doesn’t End at 80 – Neither Should Travel
Age is nothing but a number for the adventurous Diana Eden, a mature woman who embraces solo travel over 80.
Women’s Solo Travel Adventures: Love on the Road
Love and romance often wind their way into our travel adventures and our JW community shares their stories of those times you met someone special while travelling.
How David Bowie Helped Me Fall in Love with London
For Jo Anne, the sound of David Bowie brings back fond memories from 1967 when she met her first love on a ship from England to the USSR.
Grief Journeys – Travel After Loss
Grief and loss are part of the human experience. Indeed, it’s something the world is feeling collectively right now, gripped as we are by a pandemic. Our stories have one common thread: We all found healing in travel.
Giving Fear the Finger: How Women Grow Through Travel
Some of us allow our fears to hold us back. Then there are the brave souls.