Europe, Becoming a Bride, and What Travel Reveals About Home

In this episode of Note 2 Self, Saskia returns from Europe after a trip that began as wedding planning and became a question about the life she wants to build around marriage. After a sleep-deprived, slightly sick start in Paris, she and Jeffrey head to Bordeaux to tour wedding venues, where one ceremony space leaves them both in tears and makes the wedding feel real for the first time. From there, Corsica offers four days of mountains, ocean, incredible food, and enough quiet for Saskia to hear what city life has been drowning out: she is exhausted by the pace of New York and craving more nature, space, and stillness. In London, she reunites with her mom, tries on wedding dresses for the first time, and discovers that becoming a bride feels less like a cinematic transformation and more like another identity she is learning to define for herself. Back home, Return Flight Theory gives Saskia a lens for understanding why travel can make a familiar life look different. She can appreciate the home she and Jeffrey have built while still listening to the possibility that the next version of their life may need something new. Because every feeling does not require an immediate decision. Sometimes it simply asks to be noticed. Note 2 Self is for the women still figuring out life and who we’re becoming. A podcast on relationships, culture and modern life. Subscribe to Note 2 Self on YouTube for new episodes every Thursday. Follow on Instagram:   / note2self_podcast   Follow on TikTok:   / ucdpqnsmuynrf8r6xiinoewg