ABOUT

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KAREN SCHALER

As the author of the TRAVEL THERAPY book and the creator & editor of the TRAVEL THERAPY website & blog, Karen Schaler, is a three-time Emmy award-winning multi-media journalist with more than 15-years of professional TV reporting, writing & hosting experience.

From working as a TV war correspondent, embedded with a combat Apache helicopter unit in Afghanistan, to crossing the globe as a TV travel host and reporter covering some of the most luxurious and inspiring destinations in the world, Schaler is a passionate storyteller who says she writes because she has to, it’s in her blood and bones.

Schaler currently works as a freelance TV travel host and correspondent for ABC’s new national half-hour travel show that’s also airing in 20 countries and she’s working to develop a TRAVEL THERAPY reality TV series highlighting how travel can help empower and change people’s lives.

Some of Schaler’s publishing credits include: The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, New York Daily News, Travel + Leisure, Town & Country, ABCNews.com, MSNBC.com, Elite Traveler, Islands, US Airways, Delta Sky, Hemispheres, Singapore Airlines and Gafencu, an international luxury magazine based in Hong Kong.

Schaler, a sought after top travel expert, has appeared on top network television shows including: Good Morning America, The Today Show, Fox & Friends, Fox’s America’s News HQ, ABC News Now, MSNBC’s Countdown, CNN, etc.

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Schaler’s groundbreaking book, TRAVEL THERAPY- Where Do You Need to Go? ( Seal Press) is a timeless travel guide featuring more than 100 inspiring destinations from around the world based on what you’re going through in life. Stressed out about the economy? Going through a breakup or divorce? Looking for a way to reinvent yourself? TRAVEL THERAPY can help you find your way. For a copy of the book you can use the link on this website for a special discount or pick up a copy at www.amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and Borders Books, etc.

To see Schaler’s latest TRAVEL THERAPY television travel semgents and shows she has hosted on ABC just click on the PRESS page.

With degrees in Communications and Sociology, Schaler has traveled to more than 30 countries and has written more than 900 nationally and internationally published travel articles, including seven national magazine cover stories.

Schaler credits her hip, edgy writing style and her wanderlust spirit to her background as a television broadcast journalist. She was the first TV journalist ever embedded with troops in Bosnia where she reported live and executive produced, wrote and reported in a half-hour documentary.

In 2007, Schaler was the first journalist ever embedded with a combat Apache helicopter unit in Afghanistan where she reported daily and executive produced, wrote and reported in a one hour documentary. Her exclusive coverage from both Bosnia and Afghanistan earned her Emmys.

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Schaler has worked as an on-air television correspondent for CNN, and has worked as a reporter/anchor at ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX affiliates in major markets across the country. To view some of Schaler’s national TV news reporting for CNN’s Lou Dobbs and her exclusive coverage from Afghanistan click HERE.

From visiting some of the most luxurious resorts and spas in the world to whitewater rafting in Bali, sailing the British Virgin Islands, hiking and skiing in Switzerland, horseback riding in New Zealand, cave tubing in Belize, dog sledding and ice hiking in the Canadian Rockies, surfing in Hawaii, skiing in Austria, zip-lining, rappelling and ATV’ing in Puerto Rico, snorkeling in Australia, biking in Denmark, camping in the Cascade Mountains and golfing internationally, Schaler has the inside track on amazing vacation destinations.

Growing up outside of Seattle, Washington, Schaler has lived in ten different states and currently is based in NYC. Constantly globetrotting around the world, Schaler says her home now, “is wherever I put my suitcase.”

TRAVEL THERAPY: Where Do You Need to Go?