WILMINGTON, DE – Ventures & Bloom Press is pleased to share that Thomas Anderson, Editor in Chief at Literary Titan, has published an in-depth author interview with Elaina Kelly Smith, author of Changing Course Gracefully: A Guided Travel Journal for Calm, Clarity, and Self-Trust. In the conversation, Smith talks about the origins of PARQS™, how travel became her laboratory for self-trust, and practical ways readers can use the journal to move off autopilot in both travel and everyday life.
I recently had the opportunity to be interviewed by Literary Titan about Changing Course Gracefully: A Guided Travel Journal for Calm, Clarity, and Self-Trust and the PARQS™ framework. In the conversation, we talk about how my early life felt less like a gentle journey and more like an “emotionally action-packed odyssey,” and how travel gradually became my laboratory for self-trust.
In this Q&A, we explore:
why this travel journal was so important for me to write
how PARQS grew out of my own “autopilot” moments and one simple question from my therapist: “What do you want?”
ways readers can weave PARQS into everyday life, not just their journeys abroad
a new prompt I’d add today based on recent travels and the idea of “micro-course corrections”
You can read the full interview on Literary Titan here: Interview Link An Emotionally Action-packed Odyssey – Literary Titan.
Literary Titan also recently gave Changing Course Gracefully a 4-star review, which you can read in our earlier news post Literary Titan Book Review
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