Why Heald by Travel

Travel has been my constant companion through both high points and profound loss.

From family holidays to solo journeys, I’ve logged hundreds of flights and gathered stories that often led me to the same realization: I usually came home changed — sometimes lighter, sometimes clearer, sometimes simply more able to breathe.

For a long time, I believed travel itself was the healer.

Over time, I began to notice something quieter — and more important.

How I arrived mattered more than where I went.

When I arrived exhausted, burned out, or disconnected from my body, even the most beautiful place couldn’t restore me. When I arrived feeling steadier and more grounded, travel deepened rather than distracted.

That insight sits at the heart of Heald by Travel.

I believe the healthier we feel in our everyday lives, the deeper the healing we experience on the road.

Travel can’t undo months or years of deferred rest, compressed schedules, or constant tension. That’s why so many people experience “leisure sickness” — getting sick the moment vacation begins. A widely shared piece from Condé Nast Traveler explores this paradox and why it happens.

True recovery doesn’t start at the airport.
It starts in the systems of our daily lives — how we move, how we rest, how much capacity we carry into each day.

Heald by Travel exists to explore that idea.

I write from a place shaped by long professional responsibility, significant personal loss, relocation, and a deliberate shift toward a slower, coastal way of living.

I’m interested in how people carry themselves through modern life — particularly in the spaces between movement and rest, ambition and capacity, travel as escape and travel as expansion.

This site is where I pay attention to those dynamics, and to what helps us move through the world with greater steadiness and presence.

Heald by Travel is a space for paying attention — to pace, to place, and to the ways our daily lives shape what travel can actually offer us.

Travel is one expression of that.
Home is another.
What matters is the condition we bring with us.

Elizabeth