Your trip recovery plan for when you come home from traveling

We might not all get to go away every month out of the year, but hopefully you’ve set aside some time to travel this year. It’s a much needed reset – time to unwind, step away from the computers, put down the cell phones and be in the present. While leaving can be amazing, coming back and re-adjusting to the everyday can be a challenge. This can be especially difficult if you were so anxious to go on your adventure that you forgot to do some important things before you left.

Too often, I used travel as an escape from a life I didn’t even like in the first place. When travelling, I felt less confined by time, money or location. I could do whatever I wanted, I could spend some extra cash I had saved up, and go wherever I wanted to go. Yet after coming home my stress levels quickly spiked back to where they were before I had left. Instead of tacky souvenirs, I wanted to take that experience of freedom home with me. I became passionate about implementing my traveling lifestyle right at hom…