Changing Course Gracefully: - Your Travel Guide to Calm, Clarity, and Self-Trust on the Road and At Home #933493

Your travel guide to calm, clarity, and self-trust—on the road and at home.

Is travel a break from your life, or a way back to it?

Changing Course Gracefully: Digital Companion is a practical guide for travelers who are done running on autopilot. It’s for real trips where your nervous system comes along too: crowded airports, family visits, solo flights, and the quiet hotel room where everything finally catches up with you.

Who this is for
This digital companion is for you if:
• You arrive home from trips feeling like nothing truly shifted.
• You want something more grounded than inspirational quotes and “positivity.”
• You’re curious about traveling in a way that doesn’t drain you.
• You’re ready to practice small, honest changes in real situations—gate changes, delays, tricky conversations, and all.

The PARQS™ Method
Inside, Elaina Kelly Smith shares the PARQS™ Method—a five-part personal guidance system she’s used for years in real time:
• Preferences – Noticing what you actually want
• Awareness – Staying with your body, breath, and surroundings
• Right Action – Choosing the next doable step that fits the moment
• Questions – Getting curious instead of spinning out
• Self-Acceptance – Staying on your own side when plans change

Through short reflections, travel moments, and 13 core prompts, you’ll practice self-trust before, during, and after your trips—so you’re not just coming home with photos, but with a clearer sense of yourself.

What’s inside
• A clear, accessible overview of the PARQS™ Method
• Scenes and examples from real travel (airports, taxis, guest rooms, quiet mornings back home)
• Thirteen prompts to use before you leave, while you’re away, and once you’ve returned
• Gentle check-ins to help you work with stress, choice, and mixed feelings—not erase them
• Integration support, so what you notice on the road can shape how you live at home.

This is a companion for how life and travel actually feel in real time, not just in highlight reels.

How it works (format)
This is a reading companion, not a fill-in journal.
• You read on your device: tablet, laptop, desktop, or e-reader.
• You write in your own notebook, notes app, or another journal you already use.

• There are no lined or fill-in pages inside this file—the prompts and practices are designed to sit alongside whatever writing setup feels most natural to you.

What you receive
• 1 × EPUB – For e-readers and reading apps that support EPUB
• Approximately 67 pages of written content (no “filler” spreads or decorative blank pages)

About the author
Elaina Kelly Smith is a writer, traveler, and guide for people who want to move off autopilot and rebuild a relationship of trust with themselves. Raised in a highly restrictive environment, she eventually found her way into global travel and has since explored all seven continents, often on her own. Airports, train stations, guest rooms, and long flights became her practice ground for tools that work in the middle of real life, not just in theory.

Published by Ventures & Bloom Press, her books, journals, and digital companions are meant to be lived with—not just read once and shelved.