The Places
We Become
Because you are where you’ve been.
Each episode explores the psychology of travel: how place, culture, and the way we move through the world shape who we are, in ways most of us have never stopped to consider.
Hosted by Dr. Katie Blake, social and cultural psychologist and founder of The Journal of Travel Psychology.
Listen on Substack →Why Feeling Small on a Trip Is Good for Us
The psychology of awe and why travel is one of the most reliable ways to find it.
Why Some Hotels Feel Like Home
The psychology of a great stay, and why some hotels feel like home while others never do.
What is Travel Psychology?
Your introduction to the science of why we travel.
What is Home, Psychologically?
What is home, really? Does it live in a place or inside us? Here's what the research says.
The Travel Low Nobody Talks About
Post-travel psychology, the neuroscience of re-entry, and why coming home from somewhere that mattered can feel like grief — even when you can't explain why.
Why Leaving a Place Can Break Your Heart
Place attachment, the psychology of place loss, and why grieving a place you've left is real, measurable grief — even when nothing has changed but you.
The Science of Why Some Places Feel Like Home
Travel psychology, place identity, epigenetics, and ancestral connection — why certain places feel like home before you've ever stood in them.
Why We Buy Postcards and Never Send Them
The psychology of why good travel intentions around connection fall apart — and what sending one postcard can actually do.
Why Souvenirs Stay With Us
The psychology of tangible memory and how physical keepsakes anchor our memories and emotions in ways digital photos never can.
Why Writing Postcards Calms Your Nervous System
The psychology of handwriting, postcards, and the small rituals that bring your body back to calm, on the road and back home.
Why You Should Start a Travel Journal
The psychology behind it and how to get started.
How Your Body Clock Shapes Travel
What if when you travel mattered just as much as where you go?
The Psychology of Liminal Spaces
The rich beauty found in the in-between of travel.
Travel Like Yourself
The psychology of travel personality: how your traits shape the way you explore, and why there's no wrong way to do it.
The Homebody's Guide to Exploring the World
How to explore and expand without leaving yourself and your sense of comfort behind.
Why Travel Makes You Anxious (and What Actually Helps)
The psychology of travel anxiety: why it shows up before a trip, and how to travel with it anyway.
The Science of Travel and Happiness
How to plan joy-filled trips using psychology.
How Travel Shapes Your Identity
The unexpected ways new places change you and reveal who you really are.
The Psychology of Wanderlust
Why we wander: the science of travel and self-discovery.
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Because you are where you've been. A Travel Psychologie™ Podcast.
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