We are one week out from the official release date, so I thought it would be a good idea to do an official introduction post to my first ever book!!!
If you’re new here, welcome! My name is Jenn and I am the founder of this here travel blog. I spent the month of July writing my first ever book, which is called When Grief Gets a Passport and is being released on Tuesday, October 27.
I was fortunate enough to be raised in a family that always loved traveling, but it wasn’t until my mom was killed seven years ago that I was forced to enter the world of solo female travel.
You can read more about exactly how I started solo traveling in this post here.
After my mom passed, I went on autopilot. I can count the amount of times I cried in that first year on one hand and I spent the majority of my time dreaming about just hopping on a plane to go literally anywhere else in the world where no one knew my story. Any time someone saw me they seemed to be impressed at how “well” I was keeping it together, which to me seemed to imply that everyone expected me to be a complete mess at all times. Because of this I was convinced that how I handled all the traumatic events that had happened to me was wrong. If society’s expectation was for me to be spending the majority of my time crumpled up crying in a corner, then surely a part of me must be broken.
After these past seven years of traveling the world solo every chance I could, I’ve learned one very important lesson: There is no one correct way to grieve. We all grieve differently and for some people it takes even longer to go through the healing process than others…and that is more than okay!
When Grief Gets a Passport is for anyone that has ever felt like the way they grieve is wrong. It is for anyone that has ever felt an unexplainable desire to travel when something in life goes wrong. When you chart your own course in life, there are incredible lessons to be learned.
This book is a short memoir chronicling the lessons I have learned, both about life and myself, through solo female travel. If it can help one person learn that they are not alone in how they’re feeling and maybe inspire someone to try solo traveling, then all the time, tears, and energy will have been worth it.
If you preorder a paperback of When Grief Gets a Passport you’ll get a FREE gift with your order! (I may be biased, but the free gift is pretty awesome!) You can order it by going here.
If e-books are more your thing, you can pre-order the Kindle version on Amazon here.
For my friends that are currently boycotting Amazon, stay tuned! I’m working on finding an alternative way to get you guys copies of the e-book without going through that corporate giant.