From the journal
Spiritual Travel Guide
July 27, 2025
Did you ever ask yourself, what is spirit? If we google word spirit, perhaps, one of the meanings will be associated with the term freedom. I am going to do the search right now.
Well … I did BING it. One of the meanings is:
strong distilled liquor such as brandy, whiskey, gin, or rum.”
If we think about Spiritual Travel, THAT would be perhaps an interest-based travel of alcoholics, researching where alcohol addiction can lead them, OR some sort of a wine tasting journey in a best case. But THAT is not what I meant.
Because SPIRIT is also
the nonphysical part of a person which is the set of emotions and character; the soul:
Does THIS definition define freedom of some sort? Certainly, YES. Nonphysical part means FREE from anything physical.
To me, Spiritual Journey means physical travel made when led by that nonphysical part of you that we defined as spirit.
It is not about visiting places of interest or places where your friends went last year and had a great vacation or where you want to have a great time with your family.
Instead, the places where your spirit may lead you sometimes can be unexpectedly unpleasant, or surprisingly hurting, because often we consider our pure soul, or spirit may only lead us to places where we feel the divinity we deserve.
I can help you define your personal milestones on the way to the self-discovery of your free spirit. Depending on your personal situation, and availability, we will together explore the possibilities and pray for the holy spirit to show the way.
Let us be clear, in the world so much separated with different believes, fears and prejudices, I want to make sure, that free spirit is something we all have in common and this is what I will help you with. I am not offering you a religious workshop, I am offering you a spiritual workshop. I will share with you the truth that I discovered by the time during my own spiritual journey.
In my spiritual journey, I, separated myself from everything physical as much as I could, defining the purpose my Lord Jesus Christ wanted from me when they let people so wrongfully and unjustly separate me from my beloved family: my little children.
I asked God, many times during the past many years, this WHY question and the answer was, “It was not my idea to separate you from your children, and I am on your side! I love you, and I want your family to be with you, but you have to grow stronger to prove your loving and caring personality to the people who separated you, as they did not know you and they did not know what they were doing.”
Prove my loving personality to people who hurt me and my children the worst? My spirit was leading me away from those people as far as I could go, hoping that my beloved family could travel after me, away from the place where I was treated as a stranger. I did not escape – I was not allowed to stay with my children, I was WRONGFULLY separated by a civil order, when I witnessed a crime and asked about protection. I was discriminated against my rights. They wanted to protect me from my husband, when I was asking to provide protection from the conspired community. I witnessed a crime, – that is how it all started. I was scared for my children and I asked for help, but instead of investigation they offered me to blame my husband for whatever I witnessed.
Do you understand? Neither did I. Then they decided to separate me instead and make it look like a custody battle, but I know – it was an excuse. The conspired individuals did not want me to testify. They made a perjury, they made the government to arrest me and blamed it on my husband, like he did not want to live with me. It is not true. He loves me. He truly loves me. If he anywhere in the USA alive now, I want to tell him, Ryan, I never believed and I will never believe that you did something wrong. I know you and I remember you, the same loving, caring and responsible person as you were to me and to our children. I am praying every day of my life that you are alive and we can be together.
When wrongfully separated, pushed by the conspired stone-hearted people away from my own home, and little babies, exhausted by severe weather conditions and poverty, I was forced to travel away from Bellingham, WA, away from my children. I had to live in many states of the USA, in many different shelters during the years. If I could take my babies together, my life would be different and I would not have the same spiritual experience as I did, though part of my sacrifice was the total separation, – not only from everything material I loved, not only from the comfort and peace of my home and family, – I was also separated from everyone I love, knowing that they are encountering trauma and stress as well, knowing that I cannot do anything for them because every time I tried – I was arrested by the very people whom I was asking for the protection from the criminals I witnessed.
Do you understand? I believe that my experience was close to that of Jesus Christ, when he was wrongfully separated and persecuted by the people he loved and cared about. He also was lied at and also was arrested, but Jesus Christ was not tortured as my family and I. We are not together for 14 years already, and the first several years I was several times wrongfully arrested. I was taken for a stranger, thrown in jail with the people I would never know otherwise. When in the jails, I learnt about all kind of dramas and tragedies happening in the USA, but I did not meet any another person with the same experience as mine.
Add to it endless petitions and motions I filed to court, endless trips to all kind of authorities, and friends who all of a sudden stopped communicating, scared perhaps that they could be in trouble for helping me? – I was always without sufficient income, driven just by my free spirit. All it was to support my children, to stand for the justice, to speak up the truth, to speak up for my children and for other children who did not have loving parents together with them. To speak up for low-income, homeless and troubled America, – the marginalized America, where I suddenly found myself in the year 2011.
I attended many churches and met many friends all around the USA. I fell in love with the USA again during my travel and with the people living in the country. I realized that the conspired community that hunted me is not what defines AMERICA. I am American and I call those who against me and my children, illegals. I was wrongfully separated but I did not become one of them. I am the same honest, loyal and true. Now, not anymore separated, though yet not living together with my children, due to the trauma we underwent, and lack of income, I want to explore more of the country, not alone, together with my now grown-up children and you, – my friends, and earn some income that hopefully can help fund our reunion party.
You can read more about the fundraiser and my family here:
A Birthday, A Prayer, A Reunion: Bring Family Home
Contact me, let us walk a mile or more together, let us learn more about one another, the country, God and ourselves. I will share with you the truth God delivered to me during my journey. I will teach you how to ask Holy Spirit to talk to you. We will define the Spiritual Milestones – the spiritual goals, just for you.
To discover your free spirit, one of the requirements is, that you should depart from your substances (the material dependencies that you prioritize more that non-material values). Because of this, I consider it is reasonable to charge fee for the workshop. Besides, this is the work God wants me to do to help myself as well while helping others.
The standard price for the workshop is $400. It includes one mile walk together, and a writing workshop at a designated area. I prefer one of the parks along the trails, along with nature. You will come home with the gifts that will stay with you forever, – if you let them stay: 1. your uplifted spirit, 2. the plan that you will follow and 3. the personal revelation that you will remember and share. I will teach you to talk to Holy Spirit and invite it to every day of your life. As per the writing workshop, – we will write: 1. a personal prayer and 2. a poem or a song together. I do not know how much the walk with me can change you, but I can guarantee it will.
Do not worry if you are in a low-income situation, – in this case, you may pay a reduced fee of $40.00 and in some situations I may wave the fee completely.
With all my love,
God Bless,
Galina Nelson