Go: One Woman. One Van. A New Beginning.

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Pub Date 5 Dec 2020 | Archive Date 3 May 2021

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Have you ever faced a life-changing decision?

You won’t always know you’re ready until you’re ready, but when you’re ready, you’ll go.

When it became clear that my marriage was ending, I felt paralyzed and overwhelmed. In an attempt to simplify my life, I bought a Sprinter van, pared down my possessions to only what would fit inside it, and set out on a spontaneous drive across the country to explore new possibilities for my life.

Travel is good medicine.

During my cross-country trip, I grieved. I wrestled with forgiveness. And I slowly reclaimed my sense of personal sovereignty.

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In Go: One Woman. One Van. A New Beginning*, I share some of my greatest lessons from the road, and how I transitioned from living in survival mode to becoming the designer of my life.

Have you ever faced a life-changing decision?

You won’t always know you’re ready until you’re ready, but when you’re ready, you’ll go.

When it became clear that my marriage was ending, I felt...


Advance Praise

"WOW! What an amazing journey. I felt like I was right there with Stacy the entire time while I was reading and I had a hard time putting it down. I admire women who are able to overcome obstacles and enhance their lives by facing their fears, learning and growing. Stacy takes the reader through her ups and downs and has a profound way of turning negative situations into positive ones in which she grows into a stronger person. She inspired me to take a look at my own life and examine where and how I could make improvements. SLOW DOWN! Take time for yourself and do the things you want to do NOW instead of waiting until later (which may be too late) stood out to me! That was my personal best takeaway. My favorite part of the book was Stacy's uncanny way of making the me feel like I was right there with her, experiencing everything good and bad, being on an emotional roller coaster, and eventually growing to be the strong woman she is today. Thank you, Stacy for sharing this experience with me. I believe my life will be better because of it."

"WOW! What an amazing journey. I felt like I was right there with Stacy the entire time while I was reading and I had a hard time putting it down. I admire women who are able to overcome obstacles...


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This was brave for Stacy to write about an event in her life that had her re-evaluate her life.
Divorce, separation, loss or the end of anything we value is not an easy thing to talk about more so write in a book- and I love her camping experiences (especially being out solo as a woman, and her fears, how she was approached- security is something most do not talk about, backpacking or being a solo female traveler has it's major concerns).
I loved more so the 24 greatest take-aways she shared in this book, and having to read about her experiences driving her van and allowing herself to feel her emotions.
Thanks Netgalley for the eARC.

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I really enjoyed Stacy story and it made me what to buy a camper van and going travelling. This story is about loss, separation, spirituality and founding her self.
It was great to read about her experiences on camping in her van . I felt like I was there with her.
It was nice seeing the photos of her trip and the photos of the van when she brought it and when she kept adding things to the van to make it more liveable and comfortable. I think she was a very brave lady travelling on her own. The things she talked about was stuff I was interesting in yoga, nature , beach , massages and spiritual.
Thank you NetGalley for letting me read this book.

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The author takes you on an interesting journey to self discovery, proving it’s never too late to take control of your life. Recommended as an uplifting read for anyone who finds themselves at a crossroads in their life.

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It seems that these are the times of the Nomads and this book (kind of) goes with that trend. I say "kind of" because we accompany Stacy as her journey begins and it appears as though the nomadic van-life is meant to be a means to travel cross country over a period of weeks, but not as a full time home situation. That's not a complaint, just an observation. However, it also obvious that the van itself it not temporary and that she will be using it for travel and getaways for many years.
I did enjoy "Go". Stacy does speak of self care a lot. A lot!! As I read I began to realize how badly I need care. If I can wish for someone to get an impulsive idea to treat me and nurture me somehow, or I can just do it myself because I know I need it and I know I deserve it. I have started to do that since reading this book. It may sound dorky, but when I think I want to do something and start to talk myself out of it I remember this and say "self care" to myself and let myself have this pleasure, what ever it may be. So, thank you for that Stacy. I also went to Stacy's blog, took the type quiz and saw that I'm a survivor. The description of the survivor type made my eyes well up. So, there is more to this book than van life, travel, safety and how to pee and bathe on the road.
Stacy heals during her journey. Many other women who begin the van life are also on the road to healing and I think the they would enjoy and benefit from this book. I'm going to share my review on a facebook group for such women. #Netgalley #Go:OneWoman.OneVan.ANewBeginning. #StacyFisher

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This is a true story told by the author about her drive and stay in a van to find where she would go next after her divorce - her 2nd as it happens.
Initially, she just had the bare van - with nothing in it but some furniture for a sink - with 2 bottles of water - fresh and grey in the cupboard under it and a camping mattress and boxes of her belongings.
She was lucky in that as she travelled from Washington State to Florida in this van, she had friends she could call into to have a night on a real bed and a proper shower rather than any that she could find in a campsite. She did have plenty of experience of camping and van type travelling luckily, even though her van was not tricked out properly. By the end of her journey her van looked more like the one pictured above as she had some building work done and also she and her Dad did some work on it.
What surprised me, being in the UK, was that she had lots of doctor visits before she set off as travelling from state to state on her journey she had no health care insurance if anything happened to her. I am so thankful for our health service and the arrangements we have in Europe too...
One thing I found very interesting, and that made me realise that I needed, was her daily habit of journaling. Gratitude journaling. I had heard about it before but as someone who has survived what could have been an extremely serious illness and is now still unwell and will need to take a lot of care for the rest of my life, I need to work more on gratitude and less on negativity as to what has been taken away from me. Her 8 dimensions of self-care are also interesting as I been told to take more time on my self-care by several health professionals, so it was interesting to see what she means by it.
Stacy lives and talks about her self-care and has a website that she plugs but overall I was disappointed that her van journey was short and whilst she 'explored' on her journey, the places she visited were really obvious tourist sites.
This could have been a better book in my opinion as Stacy really uses it to plug her business and I wonder about her motivation in writing it and whether she had decided to do this before she started the journey. But still the style was good an

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I absolutely loved this book; it was so uplifting and oozed with positivity (after the initial rubbish she had been through).

Thank you NetGalley for my complimentary copy in return for my honest review.

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Reading this book was like a trip down memory lane for me. My husband and I traveled across the country in our 1977 customized van much like the author did. However, those were planned vacation trips and we would return to the comforts of our home. In addition to an account of the author's road trip, this was very much a self-help book on the subject of self-care. I admire the author for her courage in embarking on such a trip by herself. Thanks to NetGalley, BooksGoSocial and the author for a copy to read and review.

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