Women are encouraged to transform their lives in 2025 through travel and ancient Japanese psychology principles. When you think of the word sabbatical, do you think of a six-month or year-long career break? What if you could get the same valuable life reboot in just four weeks? Monika Lewicka has always loved to travel and even went on a two-year journey by bike across Cuba “at a time when Fido Castro was president, and there were still no smartphones”. She particularly loves the soul-affirming gifts of solo travel - whether that’s heading into the mountains or going on a shamanic retreat.
Over the years, Lewicka has been influenced and inspired by the many myths and ideas she has discovered - from Joseph Campbell’s renowned Hero’s Journey and Logotherapy by Viktor Frankl, to regeneration principles - and Japanese psychology. So it felt like a natural next step for her to create empowered.travel, a ‘solo sabbatical’ company based on these concepts, which launched at the end of 2024.
The idea is simple: empowered.travel provides a four-stage self-guided framework across four weeks to help you through any major life transition - or if you’re close to . These travel-focused sabbaticals are focused on - and that’s because Lewicka believes women often sacrifice their wellness “trying to do everything”.
“It’s not just women who need support and a framework for life transitions, but it comes from my experience of a bumpy road,” Lewicka says. “More women.
