Psychologie
Essays, guides, and tools from a social and cultural psychologist — on travel, connection, and the art of living with intention.
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The anxious girl’s guide to packing in 2026 (opens the original)
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Hi, I’m Katie — a social and cultural psychologist specializing in travel psychology. Psychologie is where I write about why we travel and who we become when we do. I believe in slowing down, in handwritten things, and in travel that changes you. I’m so glad you’ve found your way here.Subscribe nowPacking looks so simple from the outside. Honestly, what could be so hard about it? It’s just a suitcase, some folded clothes—maybe a checklist, if you
The month that slipped through my hands (opens the original)
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Hi, I’m Katie — a social and cultural psychologist specializing in travel psychology. Psychologie is where I write about why we travel, who we become when we do, and the things worth sitting with along the way. I believe in slowing down, in handwritten things, and in travel that changes you. I’m so glad you’ve found your way here.Subscribe nowWell, friends. August came and went. And, I turned a year older. My birthday seemed to hide itse
Episode 18: What is Travel Psychology? (opens the original)
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What is travel psychology, exactly?Is it the science of why we book the trip? What happens to us while we’re away? Who we are when we come home? Or is it something bigger than all three — and a discipline that most people have never heard of?In this episode of The Places We Become, travel psychologist Dr. Katie Blake, PhD lays out the field from the ground up — what travel psychology actually studies, where it came from, and why understanding it can change the way you travel for the rest of your
The long way to New Mexico (opens the original)
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Hi, I’m Katie — a social and cultural psychologist specializing in travel psychology. Psychologie is where I write about why we travel, who we become when we do, and the things worth sitting with along the way. I believe in slowing down, in handwritten things, and in travel that changes you. I’m so glad you found your way here.Subscribe nowI returned to Santa Fe, New Mexico for a summer getaway in early July. I’ve now been to Santa Fe more time
Episode 17: What is Home, Psychologically? (opens the original)
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I’ve spent several years now asking myself a question that I convinced myself was for science. If I’m honest, it’s really been for me. What is home? Is it a place? A building? A room? A street? Or is it something that lives entirely in our hearts? In this episode of The Places We Become, travel psychologist Dr. Katie Blake, PhD explores the psychological concept of home—what the research says on what it is and what it isn’t—and where we can find it. Drawing on environmental psychology and undeni
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