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The Bliss Movement

The Bliss Movement

THE BLOG.

Giving you the practices, tips, tools and stories that will guide you to create your own version of a life of bliss. A life you’re excited to wake up for each morning. A life that has you feeling satisfied when you rest their head on your pillow at night.

Here, you’ll find three core themes: solo female travel, self care, and self development

grab a cuppa + settle in for a read

10 Winter Self Care Tips To Support Your Wellness This Season

Self Care That Works: 5 Practices To Transform Your Life

8 prevention tips for seasonal affective disorder

Solo travel hostel guide to europe

6 Ways To Feel Grounded When You’re Overwhelmed

3 Things To Stop Doing To Live a Life You Love

9 Ways To Reduce Stress + Boost Energy

6 Mindset Shifts You Need to Change Your life

Edmonton To Kelowna Road Trip Guide

How To Stay Connected To Travel While Staying At Home

4 Self-Love Rituals To Try This Valentine’s Day

4 Steps For Simple Yet Effective Goal Setting

7 Benefits Of A Gratitude Practice And How To Start One

How To Practice Self-Care While Traveling

The 5 Best Cafes In Edmonton To Escape The Cold

Intention Setting 101: Creating Goals With Meaning

Johnston Canyon In The Winter: Everything You Need To Know

Overcoming Limiting Beliefs: Three Steps To Owning Your Power

6 Things To Do On A Day Trip to Drumheller, Alberta

Barbados Self-Guided Coastal Drive

What Is Self-Care, Really?

Your Quick Guide to Traveling Australia’s East Coast

5 Things You Have To See in Nusa Lembongan

Get Out of a Bad Mood in 3 Easy Steps

How To Spend One Week in Ubud, Bali

The Importance of Taking Care of Your Introvert Self

Crystal Cascades and Fairy Falls, Cairns

Emotions, Intentions and The Phases Of The Moon

Chasing 3 of the Best Waterfalls Around Cairns

A Day Trip To The Daintree Rainforest

6 Things To Do In Mission Beach, Australia

Sailing the Whitsundays: A 2-Day Tour

Exploring the Hippie Town of Byron Bay, Australia

A Beach Day in Sydney: Watson’s Bay and Queen’s Beach

How To Spend a Week in Sydney

A Day Trip to The Blue Mountains

Sydney: Coogee Women’s Baths and the Bondi to Coogee Coastal Walk

The Quick Guide to Australia’s Great Ocean Road

An Australian Road Trip: Perth to Sydney

Western Australia Road Trip: Perth to Coral Bay

A Weekend In Western Australia’s Rottnest Island

5 Best Cafes in Perth

The Sunset Coast: Your Guide to The Best Beaches in Perth

Margaret River: 2 Days In Western Australia’s Wine Region

Day Trips From Perth: Honeymoon Pool + Black Diamond Lake in Wellington National Park

How To Visit Machu Picchu on a Budget

Sandboarding in Huacachina, Peru

The Quick Guide to Ecuador’s Beach Towns

Banos: The Ecuadorian Adventure Town

How To Create Your Perfect Wellness Routine

7 Steps To Get Over Travel Burnout

Traveling Is a Beautiful Chaos

Five Things To Do When You’re In Salento

Hiking Salento’s Valle de Cocora

The Best Day Trip From Medellin: Guatape and La Piedra

The Road To Hana: A 1-Day Adventure

4 Solo Travel Fears And Why You Shouldn’t Let Them Stop You

New Year’s Eve Rituals To Celebrate With More Meaning

10 Safety Tips for Solo Travelers in Any Country

Tofino, British Columbia: A Drive To The End Of The Road

5 Things You Should Know Before Studying Abroad

Travel More: 5 Steps to Afford More Adventure In Your Life

Journey To Bliss – The New Site Makeover!

Road Trip Through The Canadian Rocky Mountains: A 7 Day Itinerary

Why You Should Embrace Being An Empath

4 Signs You Need To Quit Your Job And Travel ASAP

Salt Spring Island: Perfect 5 Day Getaway

Overcoming Post-Travel Depression: Make The Most of Coming Home

Packing Tips: 5 Tips for the Over-Packer

8 Reasons Barbados Should Be Your Next Winter Vacay

A Visual Journey Through the Rocky Mountains, Part 2

A Visual Journey Through the Rocky Mountains, Part 1

A World of Possibility

Stop Apologizing For Laughing Too Much: 4 Ways Laughter Leads To A Better Life

An Open Letter To The Man I Met Abroad

4 Lessons Learned from Living on an Island

It’s Time To Rephrase the Question.

Welcome To The Belly of The Dragon: How a Stigmatized Barbados Community Opened My Eyes and My Heart

Are Toiletries Taking Over Your Backpack? Take COCONUT OIL Instead!

An Ode to On the Road Friendships

A Letter of Hope to Florence

The Things I’ve Done For Luck.

Staying with a Local Host Family in St. Lucia

Gros Islet’s Famous Jump Up in St. Lucia

Soufriere, St. Lucia: Soaking in a volcanic mud bath

Traveling to tobago, the picture perfect caribbean island

On Living, Learning and Leaving

day trip to Pirate’s Bay, Tobago

exploring the caribbean island of st. vincent

Chasing Waterfalls in St. Vincent

The Richmond Vale Academy, St. Vincent

Giving Yourself Permission To Do Nothing

Hiking La Soufrière, St. Vincent

A Misadventure Turned Serendipitous Moment In St. Vincent

Leatherback Turtle Nesting, Trinidad & Tobago

Visiting Argyle Falls, Tobago

A Day Trip To Maracas Falls and Maracas Bay, Trinidad

How To Travel To Barbados on a Budget

The Day I Learned to Crack Open a Coconut in Barbados

Off The Beaten Track Barbados: The Hot Pot

The Practice of Being Still

Celebrating Phagwa In Barbados: The Festival of Colors

The Traveler’s Shift

Grenade Hall, Barbados: Mahogany Forests and Coastal Views

Monkeying Around at Barbados Wildlife Reserve

Barbados’ Holetown Festival

Take a Stroll Through Batts Rock Beach, Barbados

The Man Behind the Stone

Vegan Eats in Barbados: The Good Life Cafe

Errol Barrow Day at Rockley Beach

Three Accessories to Travel in Style

What’s In My Carry-On

A Hike Through Grotto Canyon, Alberta

When Your Love of the World is Stronger than Your Desire to Love a Person

An Afternoon In Alcatraz

Banff, Alberta: Spray River Horseback Tour

9 Ways To Make A Long Flight More Enjoyable

The Devonian Gardens Of Devon, Alberta

Wat Phra That Doi Suthep, Chiang Mai: Temple on the Hill.

How To Spend 24 Hours in Chiang Mai

Why You Shouldn’t Be Afraid of Traveling Alone.

Are You Breathing Just a Little and Calling it a Life?

Sorgeto Hot Springs, Ischia

Calgary’s Indoor Tropical Garden At The Core

Brunch At The Coup and Meet, Calgary

Edmonton’s Harry Potter Exhibition

6 Ways To Enhance Your Airport Experience

Exploring The Notre Dame In Paris

Traveller’s Diarrhea 101: What Is It, How To Prevent It, What To Do When You Get It

Baker Beach, San Francisco: A Photo Montage.

Baker Beach, San Francisco

What Type of Transportation Should You Take?

City Bus Tours: Are They Worth It?

Casa di Giulietta, Verona

Whitewater Rafting in Jasper, Alberta

Lake Annette, Jasper: Made of a Tropical Sea

An Afternoon in Rundle Park, Edmonton

Celebrating Birthdays Abroad

On Falling In Love With The World

Taste From Heaven: A Vegetarian Restaurant in Chiang Mai.

Photo Journey, Driving from Hoi An to Hue.

Packing with Mesh Bags/Clothing Organizers, Yes or No?

Traveling Without A Cell Phone

2 Things You Need To Get In Order Before You Leave For Your Trip

Dreaming of London: A London Photo Gallery

5 Life Lessons We Can Learn From Elephants

Canadian Winter Festivals: Ice on Whyte

Life Lessons from a Monk.

Solid Shampoos and Conditioners, Do They Live Up To The Hype?

The Fire Performers of Thailand

Learning How To Pray From A Monk

10 Tips For Surviving An Overnight Bus in Asia

Prague, Captured in Photographs

6 Questions To Ask Before Getting A Tattoo Abroad

That Time I Got An Elephant Tattoo In A Hut

The Benefits Of Staying In Hostels

That Time I Visited The Same Café as J.K Rowling

Sleeping In A Haunted Castle On The Haggis Adventure Tour Of Scotland

I Love Home But I Love Travel More

Getting Open Water Dive Certified On Koh Tao, Thailand

10 Things You Will Learn After Traveling in Southeast Asia

Thailand Misadventure: Losing My Passport and Flying First Class

Goodbye Bangkok, Goodbye Thailand

My Six Week Adventure with Chopsticks

Taking Refuge in a Vietnamese Bookshop Cafe

Kayaking Ha Long Bay, Vietnam

The Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Sunrise at Angkor Wat

Horseback Riding at The Happy Ranch, Cambodia

A Khmer Cooking Class In Cambodia

A Lady Named Tip

Packing for Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.

The Leaning Tower Of Pisa and Rome’s Colosseum

Koh Phi Phi, Thailand.

A Weekend in San Francisco

My Unfortunate Encounter with Florence.

The Fairytale City Called Venice.

17 Unspoken Rules Of Staying In A Hostel

Inside The Anne Frank House.

Blessing Trees in Chiang Mai

Volunteering at Muangkud School, Thailand

The 5 Biggest Mistakes I’ve Made While Travelling (and How To Avoid Them)

Elephant Nature Park Photo Collection.

Volunteering At The Elephant Nature Park In Thailand

Beautiful Trearddur Bay

Ischia, Italy’s Gem.

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So it turns out you do start forgetting your own age once you push thirty. Despite that, thirty four has been pretty good to me so far.
So it turns out you do start forgetting your own age once you push thirty. Despite that, thirty four has been pretty good to me so far.
So it turns out you do start forgetting your own age once you push thirty. Despite that, thirty four has been pretty good to me so far.
So it turns out you do start forgetting your own age once you push thirty. Despite that, thirty four has been pretty good to me so far.
So it turns out you do start forgetting your own age once you push thirty. Despite that, thirty four has been pretty good to me so far.
So it turns out you do start forgetting your own age once you push thirty. Despite that, thirty four has been pretty good to me so far.
So it turns out you do start forgetting your own age once you push thirty. Despite that, thirty four has been pretty good to me so far.
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