Category: Blog
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MS AWARENESS WEEK: The 5 Things MS Has Taught Me
I’ve thought long and hard about the best way to write this for MS Awareness Week. Do I write facts? An account on how you’ve affected my life? Do I talk about how it’s only now, 22 years after my Dad first got diagnosed that I can barely even speak about a few of the…
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The Post Lockdown ‘Lose the pounds’ Phase – Why I’m Refusing To Listen
Looking at me, I don’t think you would assume I ever suffered from an eating disorder. In fact, looking at me and judging me at face value, I would assume you’d think I had it all together – mentally that is. But nobody – absolutely NOBODY – has it all together, in any sense of…
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Be Your Own Valentine This Valentine’s Day
Oh Valentine’s Day, that ol’ day. The day of flowers, grand declarations of love, chocolates and feeling appreciated. Or if you’re me a few years ago, a day of tense conversations and a lack of chocolate. That’s right readers, I’ve never really had the best Valentine’s day, even when I was in a relationship, which…
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2025 Ultimate Guide to Backpacking Travel Essentials
Welcome travellers, to my ultimate guide to backpacking travel essentials in 2025. I wrote this at 00.02am in a bunk bed in Peru, 7 hours before I had to get up to hike to Laguna 69. What was the reason being so wide awake and deciding to write this ultimate guide? Had I drunk two…
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The BEST Backpacks To Travel The World With
How do you know which backpack is the best for you? I look at the best backpacks for 2021 for short term, mid term and long term travel!
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My Mental Health Journey in Tier 4 Restrictions
As we start the countdown to New Year’s Eve 2020 (oh the joy), I’ve realised how anxious I’ve become since we heard the announcement that London was being thrown into Tier 4 restrictions. It’s becoming steadfastly more and more mentally exhausting to remain upbeat, when you’re being told the virus is spreading like wildfire and…
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10 Things I Miss That We ALL Did Travelling
What do you miss the most about travelling? The excitement arriving at the airport in the early hours? The aeroplane food? Trying to rush off the plane before they open the doors?
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Life, Dating, Therapy & Travel Update In Lockdown 2020
What’s it like to return from backpacking the world to a pandemic? How does life resume? How is dating possible?
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5 Things Which May Make Lockdown Less Intense
HELLO LOCKDOWN MY OLD FRIEND. What an entire sh*tshow 2020 has been. There’s no beating around the bush here – it’s been dire. As if a world ravaged by a virus hasn’t been enough of a challenge, we’re all on tenterhooks waiting for election results, James Bond has died and terror attacks are being thrown…
Emily's Backpacking & Mental Health Adventures 