A Constant Battle With Homesickness
It is exactly 3 months and 3 days since I arrived in New Zealand and started on my Kiwi journey. It feels so much longer though and I’ve seen a…
Category: Mental Health
Feeling Everything With Sensory Overload
You’re sat in the office, you’re tired, probably hungry and soon you can hear every tiny sound in the room. From the click of the keyboards, to the breathing of…
Mindful Travel: Staying Present When Backpacking
You’ve finally set off on your big backpacking journey and you are quickly ticking everything off your bucket list, but are you actually taking it all in? I arrived here…
Accepting the Realities of Travelling with Depression
I’ve always been very passionate about not letting my mental illness stop me from doing the things I want to do and especially seeing the world, it’s basically what this…
Great Wall of China Trek with the Mental Health Foundation: Everything you need to know
The Mental Health Foundation run an annual trip to China, to trek the Great Wall of China and if you are looking for your next big adventure, you need to…
How I’m managing money worries whilst travelling long term
I’ve always been good with money, I avoided overdrafts in University and graduated with no debt other than the student loan (which I’ll pay back… eventually). Even as a semi-functioning…
Why I Turned to Wicca to Help My Mental Health
This post is going to divide a lot of you and that’s ok! I created this blog to document my biggest passions in life, which are travel and mental health…
How to manage travel anxiety and see the world!
Let me make one thing VERY clear straight out the gate, today, we are talking about MANAGING travel anxiety, not overcoming it, not getting rid of it or ignoring it,…
The Power of ‘F***k it’ and How to Use it
I very recently watched the amazing film that is The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and I cried. At first I was like ‘Why are you crying? Nothing sad is…
I’m trekking the Great Wall of China: Training Plan
You may remember this little post I did about me raising money for the Mental Health Foundation, by trekking the Great Wall of China. I had to raise a minimum…
