The trip was incredible. Now you're back, everything feels gray, and you can't shake the feeling that real life is the wrong life.
Three days ago you were somewhere extraordinary. New sights, new food, a different version of yourself—more present, more alive, more free. Now you're back at your desk with fluorescent lights and a full inbox, and everything feels like a downgrade.
It's not just missing the trip. It's the contrast. Travel showed you a version of life that felt more vivid, more meaningful, more you. And now you're back to the version that feels like going through the motions. The question isn't "I miss the beach." It's "Why does my regular life feel so flat?"
People around you have already moved on. "How was the trip?" takes about thirty seconds. Nobody wants a detailed account of your existential crisis about returning to normalcy. So you put the photos on Instagram and try to re-engage with a life that suddenly doesn't fit right.
ILTY helps you process what the post-travel blues are really about. It's rarely just about the destination. It's about what the trip revealed—what you're missing, what you want more of, and what needs to change at home.
The gap between travel-you and home-you feels huge. ILTY helps you understand what the trip gave you that your regular life doesn't—and whether that's fixable.
Is it the place? The freedom? The novelty? The presence? The simpler version of yourself? Understanding what you're actually mourning points toward what needs to change.
Travel changes people. But it's easy to file the experience away and snap back to old patterns. ILTY helps you figure out what you want to keep from the trip.
Coming home doesn't have to mean resuming a life you don't want. It can be the starting point for bringing some of what you found traveling into your daily reality.
We want to be clear about our limitations:
Very normal. The shift from novelty, freedom, and presence back to routine, obligation, and autopilot is jarring. Your brain was getting constant dopamine from new experiences, and suddenly it's not. The sadness is real and proportional to how much the trip meant to you.
Not necessarily. It might mean your life is missing some of what travel provides—novelty, presence, freedom, adventure. That's fixable without burning everything down. ILTY helps you figure out what specifically you're missing and how to bring some of it into your daily life.
Typically a few days to two weeks. If it persists significantly beyond that, it might be revealing something deeper about your satisfaction with your current life, or it might be depression that was masked by the trip. Either way, it's worth paying attention to rather than pushing through.
ILTY is free during beta. Start a conversation and see if it helps with what you're going through.