Tag: Featured
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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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The Most Sustainable Travel Destinations To Visit
If you’re looking to backpack or travel the world, you must have a knowledge of how to do so, as responsibly to our environment as possible. Check out some of the most environmentally conscious countries to visit across the world and add them to your post-covid 2021 bucketlist!
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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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What Instagram doesn’t show you about travelling solo
Hey gang, What’s happening? I hope you’ve all been trying to spend time during lockdown in the most positive way possible. Lockdown for me has given me time to reminisce about the places I’ve travelled to and the experiences I’ve had. A lot of travel businesses, airlines, hotels and hostels are slowly thinking of opening…
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Mental Health May – Why I’ve Not Been Writing
As you may or may not know, it’s Mental Health May (oh clever, see what I did there). It’s a month dedicated to bringing awareness to mental illness and so I thought I’d write about how I’ve actually been feeling. I could give a “10 top tips to make you feel GREAT” but I don’t…
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COVID – How does it impact your mental health?
I think what I’m finding the hardest about being home, without any plan or notion as to what the hell I’m doing is the constant mental chatter that I can’t shut up. I find myself disassociating a lot of the time, and that combined with a continuous playback of not always such nice thoughts makes…
Emily's Backpacking & Mental Health Adventures 