The Paper Airplane Blog
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How to Plan a Reset Trip
Reset travel is an intentional break built around recovery, and it has a job to do. Learn how to plan a reset trip that sticks, from choosing your reset type to making sure the benefits don’t disappear when you get home.
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How to Use Travel to Reevaluate Your Relationship and Love Life
Relationships shift whether we’re ready or not. Taking an intentional trip (together or solo) can give you fresh perspective on your relationship and love life.
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24 Best Books for Life Transitions to Read on a Reset Trip
Travel and reading go hand in hand. This reading list organizes 24 nonfiction books and memoirs across eight life areas. The right book at the right time can do something a guidebook can’t: help you figure out what you’re feeling before you even pack.
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How to Use Travel to Reset Your Healthy Habits
When did our bodies become the things that just carry us from task to task? See how to use your next trip as the first step in resetting healthy habits with this guide to reconnecting with your body through travel.
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34 Best European Spa Towns for Burnout Recovery
People have been dragging their overworked, overtired selves to thermal springs for thousands of years. Find the best European spa towns for rest and restoration, with thermal baths, mineral springs, and the overcrowded ones to skip.
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How to Use Travel to Make Peace with Financial Anxiety
Financial anxiety has a way of sticking around even after the numbers say you’re fine. Travel can help women stress-test those assumptions by stripping your spending down to the basics and figuring out what “enough” looks like.
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How to Use Travel to Explore a Career Change
Career questioning for women is often driven by life-stage shifts and accumulated self-knowledge. Intentional travel based on exploring your next chapter removes professional context and creates conditions for honest reflection.
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How to Choose the Right European Destination for Where You Are in Life
There are 44 countries in Europe and approximately 4,000 Pinterest boards telling you where to go. As a travel coach, I’m here to remind you that it isn’t the where that matters, it’s the why behind it. Here are 28 European destinations to consider based on your current life stage.
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37 Best Women-Only Travel Groups and Companies
There are a ton of women-only travel companies and tour groups that are a great fit for midlife travelers, but finding the right one for you takes research — who’s got the time? Luckily, this guide breaks down the best options, so you can find your people and your perfect trip.
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The Challenges of Midlife and How Travel Can Help
Women in midlife commonly navigate a host of new challenges like menopause, empty nests, and more. See how intentional travel, planned with reflection in mind rather than pure leisure, can help you process these transitions.