unlocking intuition through solo travel 🧚🏼

Hello you cutie little soul, welcome back! Since writing my first post, I’ve been really in alignment with what I feel it’s doing in service of myself and the collective and that feels really nice and fun because when I share myself with the world, I want it to be in a way that grows and expands me and allows me to show up and create in a way that feels authentic, but of course I also want to be of service and value to others! So if you’re reading these, hopefully you take even just a tiny little piece of what I share as value and maybe you’ll carry that through the universe and that’s where I know I can make an impact around the world!! It really does seem simple doesn’t it heheheh 

The world though!! How big and beautiful mama earth is, pretty much the biggest thing we know in the physical realm and yet it’s so small that whenever I’ve travelled anywhere I always seem to end up meeting people that I share some sort of connection with. I think that’s one of my favourite things about travel, alongside the incredible connections you build with people and places you’ve never experienced or the perspectives you gain or things you learn that I genuinely don’t think you can get from any experience other than travelling unknown places! It actually alters your brain chemistry to show you there’s so much more out there than what you experience in your day to day life 🙃 Magical. My absolute favourite thing about travelling though, emphasis on the solo experiences, is not really something I expected to realize at the time that I did, but when my fairy godmother asked me what my favourite part about my 3 month Asia trip was in early 2023, I blurted out that I fell so in love with following and playing around with my intuition… you know those moments where you’re like ‘oh.. I didn’t know that’s how I felt until I said it out loud’ …ya one of those. And she wasn’t surprised at all, whereas most people I think look for your favourite place or thing you did in your travels, but I guess I went deeper than that.. And then I decided to lean into that and pay attention to what I meant by it for the last year and a half. I’ve done a juuuuicy amount of spiritual growth since then, not that you need to be on a spiritual journey to learn how to follow your intuition, but that’s looked like playing around and growing alongside it, getting so familiar with deciphering when it’s intuitive or just daily thought patterns coming through, that it almost feels like my superpower.. except that it’s not unique to me, you also have it you just need to give yourself permission to use it 🥹

What that looked like for me and why I think it’s such a fun time to play with it is because when you’re travelling, you’re likely not on an agenda, at least I’m not, I don’t even have a concept of an agenda when I’m travelling hahaha but being by yourself, you get to wake up and do whatever it is that your body feels like doing that day. I am definitely someone that values routine in some aspects, if you know me you know my morning typically doesn’t slip by without me having my glow drink and journaling, and if it does it’s because something else took priority in the moment which is cute because I think it’s so important to have that flexibility in your routines, but structure supports you soooo well! Structure is sexy 🫦 But what’s sexier is allowing your body to tell you that it wants something else in the moment while knowing you can get back to your routine the next day. I’ve definitely learnt how to build discipline over the last 6 years in a lot of areas of my life, and like I said in another post, it’s the highest form of self love so am I motivated most days to journal and write out my thoughts, or do a workout, go for a walk or prioritize nutrients? Not always.. But will the future version of me benefit from it if I do it right now? Without a doubt. That’s where my thought pattern supports me in creating discipline AND ALSO.. what I’ve learnt with that is that sometimes the intention can be there and then take a different shape. I value moving my body daily and used to think that working out took priority, but if I really wasn’t feeling like getting a sweat in, going for a walk might feel more in alignment and I know it’s still a stunning form of exercise and if you follow that feeling it will always lead to you feeling wonderful 🥹

I sidetracked to routines and structure, welcome to my brain, but what I found myself doing a lot while exploring Thailand and Bali was maybe just having an intention for the day, knowing that most of them involved the beach and yummy food, getting my steps in, more beach, with the odd excursion or experience here and there. And whenever I was walking around looking for places to eat or where to go, I would get familiar with a place enough to know the path I would take and in walking to where I thought I was going, my body would just take me down a different road or into a different shop or sometimes I would end up somewhere wondering why I was even there. I kind of just stopped questioning that and had fun with it. One day I was walking back to my hotel and ended up on a 2 hour walk on a rural highway, ok a little dodgy, but had a precious stray pup following me for a while that I felt he was protecting me and then met the sweetest thai lady that gave me gifts and a water bottle and I simply wouldn’t have been connected to any of that if I hadn’t have let my body lead the way. I would have gone back to my hotel and chilled.. Typically every time I caught myself following an intuitive lead it ended up with a cool experience that you wouldn’t dream up, you know!?

Travelling with other people is so so fun and I also love that, as long as it’s the right people because honestly it’s tough to find friends you actually travel well with, no matter how close you are!! But when you’re with other people and trying to make plans, you have to take each other into consideration and compromise (I just used chat gpt to find that word because I literally forgot it…what a crazy world we live in) on plans typically, which doesn’t always allow for space to follow your intuition. You’ll find yourself doing things that they want to do, or maybe things that other people have told you to do, even if it’s not of value to you! I personally am a big time beach girly, I adore being in the sun and sand and most of my time down in the islands involved that, while meeting people and exploring the little towns etc., whereas some people really value doing all the touristy things and getting every experience in that they can in the time they’re there! I definitely caught myself wondering things like, maybe I should go do this, everybody does it when they’re here… and then just wouldn’t do it because I didn’t feel called to!? If I really felt like it aligned then I would and yay for that! I honestly think you build so much self trust and confidence in travelling solo, it shows you what you value, how beyond capable you are in relying on yourself and simply gives you the time and space to get to know yourself on a deep level if you allow yourself to explore! 

I love it so much, I love that it looks different for everyone but I will always always always urge people to do it when they share with me that they’ve thought about a solo adventure because what you gain, in so many aspects, is absolutely unparalleled. It’s really just a sexy fun time and there’s so much of the world to see and experience that is beyond beautiful, I am so grateful that I have the means to see it through other perspectives in the ways that I do because it’s pure magic. And that includes experiencing yourself and the divinely intuitive magical little being that you are 🧚🏼

Go play!!!

xx Sarah