Hello! I'm Jeneil Bamberg, now offering Travel Transformation sessions and the creator of the Travel WHY Method.

Have you ever felt like you needed a vacation from a vacation? Let me tell you why you may feel this way.

Travel and life teach us many lessons, and both can bring to the surface our unprocessed trauma. 

Many people will accept that travel and life teach them lessons (at least, intellectually they do. On the level of the body, it is another matter). Many people will not accept that they have unprocessed trauma, yet every human on the planet has unprocessed trauma.

Here’s why:

Humans are tribal creatures who once lived largely in communities that helped each other and depended on one other for survival. Certain communities in the world still actively live this way, though for the world majority this is no longer the way of life.

In tribal communities, children were passed from one secure nervous system, to another, and another. Not just one parent, or two parents, raised a child, but many participated in raising the child. One or two parents raising a child, based on our biology, is not enough for a child to develop secure attachment. Have you heard the term “it takes a village?” This term is grounded in the truth and wisdom of tribal communities and our ancestors. 

This is not about parent-blaming, this is stating the fact that since most people did not receive the attunement, the safe connection with safe nervous systems, they needed as children, this lack of safe connection stored in the body as trauma.

“Trauma” can be a triggering word for some. Many, including myself, remember having largely happy, “perfect” childhoods absent of trauma.

When you look more closely, you see the cracks. And when you look into the cracks, you see the trauma. 

There is big “T” trauma, and little “t” trauma. Big “T” trauma occurs when we experience an event that is far beyond our ability to cope and deeply traumatic to our minds, bodies, and souls. This is what people typically think of as trauma, and I won’t list these types of traumas here.

Little “t” trauma is death by a thousand paper cuts. Little “t” trauma is the cumulative trauma we experience when we did not get the attunement we needed as children, when we were not seen, valued and connected to in our authenticity of who we actually are. When we had to hide our authenticity because it wasn’t safe to express our authentic feelings, express who we actually were, or at least it didn’t feel safe a significant amount of the time.

A child who cannot express herself authentically, for example, if she wanted to scream or she wanted to play and that wasn’t safe, she would be lectured or yelled or worse from caregivers, learns to hide or develops other coping mechanisms in order to placate and please her caregivers. She does so in order to survive, because she is a child and she relies on her caregivers to survive.

When the child grows up, she continues the same behaviors, people-pleasing, self-sacrificing, blaming, projecting, judging, criticizing, addictions, anything to keep her safe, because those behaviors were brilliant at keeping her alive as a child, distractions by her nervous system and mind from the real pain she experienced of not receiving attunement. 

Now as an adult, those behaviors just keep her stuck.

This is what keeps so many people in the world stuck, broke, sick, miserable, and disconnected, and our society then reflects this disconnection and sickness. 

As you can see, little “t” trauma can add up to quite a great deal of trauma. 

The coping mechanisms you developed to keep you alive, through attachment relationships at the sacrifice of your authenticity, are now keeping you stuck, broke, sick, miserable, and disconnected as an adult.

Is this you? I would guarantee that 98-99 percent of all adults are going to say “yes.” And please be so gentle with yourself, because there is no shame here. It just means there is some healing work to do. 

And ultimately, only you can heal this. While the task may feel insurmountable at times, I am living proof that this healing and transformation from stuckness, brokeness, sickness, misery, and disconnection to a life of expansion, fluidity, abundance, vibrant health, joy, and deep connection is possible. And I would love to guide you on this journey.

Now, what does all of this have to do with travel, you may ask?

Travel can teach you many lessons on a personal and collective level.

Through travel, I have learned to breathe deeply, I have learned to connect deeply to myself and to others, and to our beautiful planet. 

I have learned the power of what is to have lived through trauma, and I have allowed it to shape me, while not defining me. That’s an important difference. In letting the trauma shape me yet not define me, I have allowed my life lessons and trauma to transform me, I have walked through the fire, and in that process, I have discovered and accessed my deepest gold, my shining inner light, and my innate MAGIC and I have transformed the energy of trauma into the energy of connection to transform my life beyond all recognition.

Travel has been an integral part of the process, because travel is an intensifier. It will intensify whatever is living inside of you and surface it, allowing you to transform and shift the energy to serve you and your highest good. I have used travel to torque my energy into shaping my life into a beautiful creation of connection, love and POWER. 

And, that is possible for you too.

Let me tell you a story. I started traveling at 0 years of age because I grew up in a US military family in Germany. Travel wired into my DNA at a young age, and it feels safe to my nervous system. 

In travel, I often found refuge from the hardships of life, an escape. And that word “escape” is key because I have often used travel to disconnect, actually. 

And then I just felt broken, disconnected, sad and small, even though I was seeing some of the most beautiful and unique places on the planet.

I would travel and sometimes I would feel blocked in connecting to myself or others in safe and deeply meaningful ways.

Or, I would travel to avoid, to run away, rather than facing the problem and facing the reality head-on by breathing through the pain and allowing myself to learn the lessons and allowing them to transform me. 

I remember one time, I took a six-week assignment working in China with US high school students learning Chinese. Working with that age group is not something I ever would have typically done, however, I was in a longterm relationship where I was deeply unhappy, and I was also in love with someone else and couldn’t admit it, so I decided to take the summer to work abroad and “search my feelings.”

That summer, I received many lessons showing me that I needed to be true to myself and that I had veered off the path and needed to get back on. And that the only way to do so was to be true to myself and my feelings.

Nine of the 15 kids got sick and/or injured. Thankfully, no one died - what I tell myself now, laughing darkly!

I was somewhat inconsistent in how well I could show up energetically at work. I was there physically, but not all there. My Chinese colleagues noticed and what could have been mild cultural work differences easily overcome, became cross-cultural irritants. 

I constantly had insomnia, I slept horribly. I was up thinking about if I wanted to break up with my longterm boyfriend, thinking about my crush.

Then, I got really sick. 

While I was sick, I had a feverish dream. In the dream, I was underwater and nearby I felt my boyfriend, and also my crush. I could see a figure rising up towards me from the deep - it was the torso of a mermaid, dappled in beautiful pinks and green scales. It was me.

I awoke from the dream knowing what I needed to do. My intuition told me strongly I needed to break up with my boyfriend and pursue my crush.

A few days after I returned to the States, I was in line at the grocery store, and heard a familiar voice talking on a cell phone behind me. I couldn’t believe it was my crush. The Universe had delivered him to me.

I turned around, ready to reveal my feelings and - I just couldn’t go through with it. We walked back to where he was living as friends, and friends we remained.

I didn’t feel safe enough to make the choice my heart was longing to make.

Since that time, I have invested years and years and huge money and time investments in myself and my healing. Today I am completely different person from the young woman who was unable to follow her intuition and act on her dreams. I give and send her so much love - I want to give her a huge hug at that grocery store line, squeeze her hand, tell her it’s all going to be okay, no, it’s going to be more than okay, it’s going to be beautiful beyond her wildest dreams. 

I know the person I am today would have made a very different decision in that grocery store line.

My travel “why,” for that trip, was to get deeply in touch with my intuition and what I wanted to do, which I did - however, I did not feel safe to act on those messages. 

And THAT is key. I want you to feel so deeply connected to your intuition, and so safe to act, fully act, leap into your deepest desires, dreams, travels, and life, knowing that you are so fully supported by myself and by the Universe, and most of all believing in YOURSELF and your soul, having full faith and trust that the leap will transform your life beyond your wildest dreams. 

Through the healing work I do which I have used on myself, including getting deeply in touch with my travel “why,” I now use travel as a means to deep connection, and it has absolutely supercharged my life into the frequency of limitless joy, abundance, magic, and access to my infinite personal power.

Through my healing work and accessing my travel “why,” I recently connected deeply with a group of women on a retreat to Greece. My intuition told me I needed to bring more community into my life, and I listened and acted on the call. Now these women and I are deeply connected, they share a strong maternal energy that helps to keep me grounded and feeling secure, and I share with them my inner magic and my somatic and intuitive wisdom in a beautiful symbiotic relationship. I would have totally missed out on this beautiful chance for connection in the past, and rejected this same group of women as part of a trauma response. 

This is the power of somatic and trauma healing, and the magic of travel, combined. Through doing somatic (mind-body) work and trauma healing work, and simultaneously giving yourself over to the magic of travel, you will allow yourself to be shaped and transformed. Rather than a way to disconnect and escape, travel then provides a container for the lessons and trauma you have experienced in life to be transformed. 

Travel then provides a container full of the unknown, yet brimming with the energy of the magic of the universe, for you to alchemize your life lessons and transform your triggers, your unprocessed trauma and your dysregulated nervous system into energy that serves you, so that you may regulate your nervous system, process your trauma, lead from the place of your highest self and highest good, and transform your life. 

And, you cannot do this alone.

Why? This goes back to what we learned earlier about “it takes a village.” 

You need a safe nervous system and grounded wisdom as a guide to help you regulate your nervous system, process unprocessed trauma, hold your inner child who needs attunement, and step into your innate power to deeply access your travel “WHY” and allow it to unfold in your life as you feel safe to step into the unknown and allow all the answers to be revealed to you, no longer trying to grasp tightly, control the outcome, get small, judge, criticize, remain stuck, and all the other coping mechanisms you have used.

Imagine, after you learn this method:

•  You will no longer feel like you have to schedule your vacations or travel down to the minute, chock full of activity after activity running your nervous system and body into the ground to the point of exhaustion. 

• You will no longer feel disconnected in your relationships, division in your family or with your partner because the vacation was overwhelming and everyone is exhausted. 

• You will no longer feel like you don’t have enough money, are too broke, too sick, to even contemplate a vacation or travel, and you will be able to open your window of tolerance while holding your fear as you step into the vacation or trip of your dreams, even if it scares you, you know you want to do it so badly and now you have the courage, boldness, and support to go after your dreams

• You will no longer feel like you need a vacation from a vacation

   

After you learn this method, you will: 

• Feel so completely in your power to create the travel experience of your dreams from a place of deep safety, desire, and connection

• Know how to regulate your own nervous system and attune to yourself, holding your inner child, so that you are able to respond to any triggers arising on the trip

• Use the power of travel and its lessons to transform your energetic vibration to a higher frequency, so you may call in even more of what is aligned into your life

• Feel safe, powerful, even juicy, as you uncover and embody more of what makes you YOU as you move through the world in your travels 

• Step into your full power so that you may create the travel life of your dreams from a place of deep connection, trust, and faith in yourself 

• Feel safe to fully connect to YOU, all parts of you, to fully connect to your trip and others, to connect to nature, just safe to connect in all ways that serve you

• Feel more grounded and able to take bold action in other areas of your life beyond travel, to make the changes you’ve been wanting to make, to call in your deepest desires
   

Travel WHY Mini-Program

In this container, my mini-program, you will complete my signature Travel WHY Blueprint and have access to Travel WHY questions and journal prompts, daily somatic exercises, and have me as a high-touch guide where we work on a somatic, psychological, and spiritual level to co-create a deeply healing container with travel, so you will move out of stuckness, scarcity, survival mode into abundance, power, and freedom to travel the world and feel free, safe, powerful, and feel like YOURSELF again. 

You will be held in a safe container by me, daily, so that we may heal your nervous system, unprocessed trauma, fears around travel, money, abundance, intimacy, desire, pleasure, power, and more, so that you may step into the travel life of your dreams. 

This is the power of my sacred somatic travel coaching container, combined with the magic of travel. 

In this mini-program somatic travel coaching container, you will receive the following: 

• Five (5) hour-long sessions where we allow you to excavate old material to examine and process together, where I hold you and allow you to feel safe to be seen in a six-week period. Five weeks in session and one week off for integration.

• In the 60 minute one on one session, we’ll go deep into your travel “why,” your needs and desires, and help you coregulate your nervous system, release old pain and begin to heal and expand

• Eight (8) modules to assist you in reaching progressively deeper levels of healing and expansion over the course of the six week period 

• Monday-Friday Voxer app support with Saturday add-on available for upgrade; time zone differences considered, and accommodated when possible 

• Methods to get you really clear on your travel “why,” and how travel can you help you heal, grow and expand in your life like nothing else

• Introduction to the central nervous system, and how it works in travel 

• Practices to ground and center your nervous system, such as guided meditations, individually tailored intuitive methods, and more, so that you feel safer and more connected in travel

• Coaching to hold and guide you as you begin to release old pain and trauma on your healing + travel journey

• Coaching to help you meet your inner child’s needs and step into your inherent power, so that you take your trip from a place of power and connection

• Support with travel planning, suggestions for travel logistics, and travel tips from a lifelong travel veteran

• Proprietary packing lists and nervous system regulation guides that have helped me on my expansive travel journeys, to support you too on your journey 

 

What this program is not: I am not a dedicated travel planner, therapist, or other licensed professional. I can provide support in these areas, however if you are looking for a dedicated travel planner or trauma-informed clinically trained therapist, I can provide recommendations. 

I use my own healing + travel journey from decades of experience to help you heal, ground, grow, and expand in your travel journey. 

Investment: contact me for pricing inquires.
 

With optional Saturday Voxer upgrade: additional charge

Payable by credit or debit card, or bank transfer. 

Pay in full, or payment plans available upon request. 

Module Topics: 

1. The Nervous System and Travel

2. Our First Traveler: The Inner Child

3. Dual Energetics 

4. Attachment Wounds 

5. Tribe: Safe to Go Your Own Way  

6. Personal Power, the Shadow, and Travel

7. Travel Magic: Intuition, Expansion, and Abundance

8. Your Vision and Travel WHY

I also offer a la carte or session packages for somatic travel coaching per the methodology outlined above:

• One 1:1 Travel Transformation session (introductory session)
• Three 1:1 Travel Transformation sessions package
• One-month Travel WHY Method 1:1 container
• Three-month Travel WHY method 1:1 container