by Lizzie | 17th January 2013 | Psychology, Travel
If departure is the past and arrival is the future, then the road is the present, and there is nothing more spiritually difficult, or spiritually rewarding, than learning to live significantly in the present. – Leon Wieseltier Live in the moment, they say. Enjoy...
by Lizzie | 2nd January 2013 | Psychology, Travel
Well, we made it to 2013. Give yourself a well-deserved (?) pat on the back. It’s that time of year which sees people looking nostalgically back on the previous twelve months, boasting about the things that they have done and sweeping the things they wish they hadn’t...
by Lizzie | 14th November 2012 | Psychology, Travel
There was a time when I didn’t leave the house for almost three months consecutively. The first thing I did when I woke up was vomit and the thought of leaving the house, even just to go to the shop, brought me to tears. You see, when I was a teenager I had a severe...
by Lizzie | 5th November 2012 | Psychology, Travel
I would say I’m a creative person. I like art – in fact I like art so much I did a degree in it – but since finishing my degree and landing a full-time job, I have found I am less creative on the artistic front. Now, my creativity is displayed in my writing. One of...
by Lizzie | 1st November 2012 | Psychology, Travel
I’m a big believer that people need time away from work to be able to perform at their best when they are actually there. If I had my way, the working week would be shorter because I honestly believe that more work would get done if employees had a less amount of time...
by Lizzie | 15th March 2012 | Psychology, Travel
As a kind of follow on from yesterday’s post, here are 5 reasons regarding how travel helps us to understand our emotional goals. We all travel for a number of reasons (as stated in earlier posts), but our emotional goals are always lurking somewhere in the...
