Feel-First Family Travel Advisor | Calm & Bearing

I plan trips you come back from feeling good — not trips you need a vacation from.

Most travel planning starts with the destination. I think that's backwards. Before you ask where, ask how you want to feel — because the mom carrying the mental load of the whole trip is usually the one whose feelings get planned around last. Your kids won't remember the itinerary. They'll remember how you felt while you were in it.

WHO I HELP

I work with moms of babies and toddlers who are planning a trip that matters — a first family cruise, a first international trip with a little one, a first multi-generational trip with grandparents along. You've probably traveled plenty before kids. You had a system. Then the system changed, and now you're not sure how to plan the kind of trip you actually want this time around.

That's the part I take off your plate.

HOW I WORK — THE FEEL-FIRST APPROACH

Every trip I plan starts with one question: how do you want to feel when you come home?

• Rest — you need to exhale. Slower days, fewer moving parts.
• Connection — you want to come back closer to the people you went with.
• Exploration — you want to feel curious and alive, without wearing everyone out.

Once we know the feeling, the rest gets easier: where you go, who you bring, how each day is built, and what it looks like on the ground. The feeling comes first, and it shapes everything after it.

A LITTLE ABOUT ME

I'm a born-and-raised New Yorker and a mom to a toddler who has already traveled internationally and survived plenty of road trips. I've been to 39 countries and lived in three (the U.S., Brazil, and South Korea, where I taught for five years). I've cruised more than ten times, backpacked solo through Southeast Asia, studied abroad across Europe, and traveled every way there is — solo, family, group, multi-generational, guided, and completely on my own.

I grew up flying between New York and Brazil, where my family is from, so I've been the kid in transit, the solo traveler, and now the mom managing it all with a little one in tow. That range is exactly why I can meet you wherever you are in your own travel story.

Fun fact: I'm fluent in Portuguese, so if you'd rather plan your trip in Portuguese, vamos nessa — I'd love to.

My favorite places: Greece, South Korea, Thailand, and Brazil top my list — but ask me about any of them and I'll talk your ear off.

A FEW QUICK QUESTIONS I HEAR A LOT

"Aren't travel advisors just for luxury trips?"

No — and this is the myth I most want to put to rest. I work with families planning meaningful trips at a real, middle-of-the-road budget, not just bottomless ones. If the trip matters to you, you qualify.

"Why use you instead of planning it myself?"

You absolutely can plan it yourself — many of my clients have. The difference is the mental load. I carry the research, the decisions, and the what-ifs so the anticipation stays enjoyable instead of exhausting, and so you get to be present on the trip instead of managing it.

LET'S PLAN SOMETHING YOU'LL REMEMBER THE FEELING OF

If you've been holding a trip in the back of your mind and aren't sure where to start, that's exactly what I'm here for. Reach out via email and tell me how you want to feel when you come home — we'll build it from there.