Painting My Way Out of Grief: A Story of Risk and Recovery
On the first day of her watercolor class, Susan Lapinski felt like a total fraud and almost quit. Here she explains how sticking with it transformed her...
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On the first day of her watercolor class, Susan Lapinski felt like a total fraud and almost quit. Here she explains how sticking with it transformed her...
It's easier to focus on apologies owed to us rather than those we need to make. Carol Flake relates how offering a long-overdue apology freed her....
Who hasn't made stupid choices against their better judgment? But there's a payoff now. Here's how intuition works and why it gets better as we age....
This ferocious promoter of female empowerment has written a new book, Mighty Gorgeous, about falling in love with yourself, flaws and all....
Scars are like organic body art, physical markers of lives lived. Here, five women tell us how they got their scars—and the surprising lessons they ho...
As she followed the Camino de Santiago, Stacey Tompkins shed sadness about kids who had moved on and found the answers in her journey of solace....
NextTribe offers small group travel experiences for women aged 45 and beyond. Our travelers are active and adventurous, open to meeting other women. If you want the benefits of traveling solo with the connection of a traveling community, you belong on a NextTribe trip.
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Japan had long been at the top of Tammy Cox's must-see list. When she finally traveled there she was moved by the people who "make loveliness an art."...
When Dawn Janáček took a work assignment in India, she was going for the adventure. She came back with so much more. ...
The physical demands of a trip--even a relatively quiet one--can be daunting as we get older. Here's how to prepare and when to start. ...
Jetlagged in a strange neighborhood in Santiago, Pam LeBlanc let down her guard. Here's what she did wrong and how you can avoid the same passport-less ...
On NextTribe's Greece trip to Greece, we'll meet goddesses galore in Athens, Hydra and other islands. Their stories challenge the patriarchy--then and n...
No filters erasing every wrinkle, no 22-year-olds pretending to know what a "girls' trip" means at our age — just women who've actually lived it....

How a Michigan therapist and lifelong observer of the natural world took the photo that thrilled our judges. ...
More than a million Americans crossed the border for healthcare last year. Here’s what one of them found....
The swankiest suite and the scruffiest budget room have exactly one thing in common: you will spend your first hours there completely baffled....
What to do if your job has been the organizing principle of your life for 33 years? You escape to South America to keep your sense of wonder alive. ...
On a mother-daughter trip in Ireland, Jennifer McGaha contemplates letting go--of an adult daughter leaving the nest and of a dear friend who had recen...
By night, she's a bass player. By day, she fights sex trafficking. Any chance she gets, she's a traveler--now a NextTribe traveler. ...
The companion side of every great trip is a quiet inventory of things that didn't make it home — and what we learned from losing them....
Their marriages ended at the same time. So Elena Seibert and a friend found healing and a new beginning over 8 days of grueling hiking in the Alps. ...