If You Go Where You Have Never Gone, Do What You Have Never Done, and Say What You Have Never Said, You Will Become the Woman You Have Always Known Yourself to Be

What happens when you go, do, and say beyond your comfort zone: a feature on women returning to their truest selves.

When Amina, a 34-year-old teacher from Nairobi, packed a small bag and boarded a night bus to Mombasa, she wasn’t just chasing a weekend escape. She was chasing herself.

“I’d never traveled alone before,” she admitted. “I was terrified, but I also felt this strange sense of relief. I kept thinking—if I don’t do this now, when will I?”

That trip, she says,…