Solo female travel is a popular trend that is gaining momentum worldwide. More and more women are venturing out independently to explore our amazing planet. As a middle-aged woman, I have traveled solo for decades. I actually never made a big deal about it, because it was so natural for me. However, throughout the years, countless others shockingly questioned me about travelling alone. I rephrase them and say not alone, just solo meeting people along the way. Read on to learn more about solo female travel benefits for yourself and others.
Firstly, think about a pilgrimage, the ultimate spiritual quest. Don’t you imagine the person solo? Perhaps, there is no better way to get to intimately know yourself then through solo travel. Joyfully, I meet women of all ages traveling solo and discovering their truest selves. And don’t pity or feel sorry for us, like it is a form of rejection. Women travelers are going solo because of an independent choice!
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Even more, I emphasize that traveling solo doesn’t need to be an expensive, overly dramatic deal. Simply, a day hike, day at the beach or road trip can do the trick and immerse you into your own intimate universe of solo travel!
9 Solo Female Travel Benefits for Well-Being
Empowers You with Confidence and Independence
Taking command of your life by planning and living a travel adventure is one of the most empowering things you can do for yourself. Every step of the way, this is your personal journey. It’s important for all of us to get out of our daily routine and shake things up with our own crazy adventure. Exploring outside our comfort zone is always a path to self-transformation!
Every solo trip that I ever made (even when I broke my arm in Nepal), I returned home feeling like a wiser and better person. After completing a solo journey, this empowerment boosts self -esteem, spreading throughout many facets in your life.
Learn About Yourself and Gain Awareness
While immersed in the unknown adventure of travel, you constantly become aware of your strengths and weaknesses. You discover your deepest fears and forms of joy. This is a huge impetus for your own personal development. Overall, self-awareness is the doorway to freedom. And ironically, the freedom of travel opens this gateway to awareness. The inside and outside journey become the same path to wisdom.
Develop Spiritual Humility
All travel is humbling, even if you are traveling with others. However, if you are going solo, magnify that thousandfold. I experienced countless solo adventures where my perceived smallness is so vast that my humility brought me to tears. Travel offers us humble pie in a spiritual way. Even a solo hike or day at the beach opens our eyes to the infinity of the universe and our unique, yet humble spark in the world’s inferno.
Nourish with Self-Care Wellness
Perhaps, self-care wellness is the essence of solo, female travel. Being in the unknown, independently offers us 24/7 opportunities to live, laugh, love & cry to our heart’s content. And unique environments unplug us from our routines, so we can experience ourselves anew. This is the seed of growth that always fans the flames of self-care wellness. Remember, gaining self-awareness is self-care.
Even more, you can plan for any type of retreat needed, along with your own sleep and food schedule to fully nourish your body, mind and soul. Women tend to be nurturers or caretakers for others by nature. Solo, female travel is an incredible opportunity to nurture the self and listen to your needs.
Experience the Ultimate Form of Freedom
Traveling solo is the ultimate form of freedom! Exploring the unknown according to your own inner clock is awesome. The novelty of the foreign environments offers relentless freedom. It’s the unknown, so there are no limitations from your past expectations. It expands your consciousness into a vaster realm of being, by experiencing something much larger than yourself. Traveling solo is a way to escape from reality or the past on your own personally blazed trail. This almost always inspires a sense of adventure and freedom.
You are the Boss
This is 100% your show. You can go when, where & how you want. Especially, if you are intertwined in co-dependent relationships at home or work, traveling solo can boost your skills at running the show and being your own boss. Traveling solo is a great exercise for self-esteem that carries over to your life once you return home.
Leaving Behind a Break-up or Emotional Grief
Travel offers a form of escape or moving on, while helping to let go of the past and people in it. When staying in your old environment with the same people you are constantly reminded of the source of emotional pain and grief. Traveling solo offers space and distance to unpack those emotional memories to process or let go. This enhances perspective, so you can move on and create new and healthier relationships and experiences in the future.
Inspire and Empower Other Women
Solo Female Travel Benefits
Solo, female travel is a popular trend right now. I meet women of all ages these days, who are traveling solo. I still don’t understand why people make such a big deal about it. It’s as natural to me as eating or sleeping. However, for many women it’s a big deal and there are fears around it. As a solo, female traveler you can inspire and empower other women to give solo travel a go themselves. There’s an incredible world out there. Who has time to wait for others to travel with you? I sure don’t.
Time to Indulge in Photography & Videos
Especially if you do travel writing, enjoy photography or making videos, then going solo is the way to go! It’s very stressful to cut a photo short or miss out on making a video because your travel buddy is ready to move on. If you are travelling with another person, compromises are necessary. If you don’t want your photos or videos to be compromised, go solo! Then, when you return home, you have lots of photos, videos and blogs to share your memories with others!
Remember, You Travel Solo, not Alone
When traveling solo, you open yourself up to meeting people along the way with no distractions from a travel partner. So, keep the intention open if that is what you want. I have hooked up with other travelers countless times through numerous ways. The most common way for me has been through my accommodations. Hostels, especially for younger women are an incredible source, conducive to meeting new traveling friends. Even day tours provide social interaction that can easily inspire some new friends or travel buddies. The people you meet along the way are one of the most important parts of the journey.
Enjoy Your Solo Female Travel Benefits!
This subject is near and dear to my heart. Solo, female travel has been a source for my greatest transformations and meaning in life. Please comment below with ideas or suggestions on solo, female travel. Think of it as a world sisterhood, all helping each other out and inspiring well-being through travel.
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