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“We don’t know how strong we are until being strong is the only choice we have” 🙏🏼 🌍 I need to carry on with meditation and yoga to clear some mental space. If anyone has any recommendations let me know. Keep safe and well everybody, please take care. ❤️
HAPPY LATE BIRTHDAY MUM, I’M HOME!!! Original Plan Pre #covid19 : Enjoy my last few days in Aus, realise my homesickness would be over, book cheap flight through Holland and enjoy two weeks with friends, organise a surprise birthday lunch for Mum in Sea Pebbles, surprise her and my Grandma and jump out of a box. What happened because of #covid19 : Be so scared of passing virus onto Dad I have a panic attack in Melbourne Airport, realise I can’t see my Grandma, arrive in Holland and spend a week in lockdown realising I need to get to UK ASAP, feel anxious and cry to my friends, change flight and then change flight again, realise I may have come in contact with virus and have to self isolate for nearly two weeks in an air bnb by myself, nearly smoke the flat out because I don’t know how to use an electric stove, cry, doubt going home because I’m so scared of my Dad getting sick, cry again, learn Spanish, exercise, cry once more, surprise Mum in a box outside house, disinfect two rooms of the house for two hours, don’t give a Dad a hug but together we learn French with #learnwithpascal - YOUTUBE IT and discover I have the worst French accent of all time. I’ve heard some really terrible stories that have happened to close family friends regarding this virus, but I’m also seeing tales of hope and kindness exploding around the world. Every day gone is a day close to us fighting this. Let’s keep going, I’m wishing you nothing but strength and health in these challenging times. Thank you to our #nhs who we are so SO lucky to have and the absolute warriors we have working below its name. 🖤🌍🖤
Please PLEASE can you spare a few pounds to give my friends some food? https://www.gofundme.com/f/please-help-feed-my-colombian-friends?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=m_pd+share-sheet Hello everyone! This is a very difficult time for the world right now. The virus is impacting businesses and the economy everywhere, however fortunately I am grateful that I live in a first world country where I have a secure roof over my head and food to buy. The absolute panic buying breaks my heart when I see how little people I know in other countries have. When I was in Colombia, I was introduced to a Venezuelan family who had been forced to flee the terrible situation to try and start a new life in Bogotá, Colombia. The father - a previous skateboarder- had been shot several times, and opened an Empanada selling business from his sitting room. This is how he made his money for his son and his little daughter. Now, no one is buying his Empanadas and he can’t buy food for his family. PLEASE PLEASE if you can donate a few pounds, this exchanged to Colombian Pesos would give him and his family food to survive. If we can buy this amount of toilet roll we can afford to save a family. Please, this family were so kind and have been so brave in their journey. Anything shared would help. Gracias thank you thank you. Link is also in bio as well as above. @lossimbolosskateboarding ojalá ojalá 🤞
Seems like a lifetime ago I was in #thailand .. how things change so quickly 🌍
KEEPING CALM AND CARRYING ON ❤️ Keeping calm and carrying on in uncertain times like these can be difficult, especially when the news headlines, the stories, the panic buying is all you can see, hear or think about. Stress and panic really affect our immune systems and hell do we need these functioning right now. Despite how difficult it is, amongst the mayhem the world seems like it’s in, a few minutes a day of breathing, shutting out anything other than focusing on your body still functioning, still moving is one of the best things you can do to keep calm. Putting the world and its ever changing news headlines temporarily in a box to take a little time out of yourself, maybe waking up to start your day peacefully, after a home exercise session to relax or just before bed. I was previously an ambassador for @headspace and I still would recommend the app to absolutely everyone even if you’ve never done meditation before. It’s easy to start and the benefits are remarkable. There is a free week trial to test the features of the Pro version and I find it amazing what listening to our body can do to relax our minds. I currently can’t visit my father or Grandma, the reasons I was coming home in the first place. Meditation takes me out of a bad place into one of gratitude and recognition that this is for the best. Also I am continuing to read @mattzhaig “Notes on a Nervous Planet” which I’d also recommend. He’s a fantastic writer. Lastly, the underlying feeling of communal strength between us all is prevalent at this time. We are all in this together, we are seeing incredible acts of generosity and kindness and thoughtfulness amongst the craziness and that is an incredible thing to witness and read about. None of us are alone in how we are thinking right now, we are a global team. 🌍 Let me know how you keep calm and carry on in the comments below ❤️
A selection of photos from my last few days in #delft with @koenhartmann as tour guide. I spent yesterday walking around learning a little about the small town and today explored a place I can’t pronounce with @lolaromee and her parents. I haven’t even got to exploring #utrecht yet but I’m looking forward to it. @lolaromee claims I don’t have enough photos of her and my Instagram is all ME ME ME so here you are - any better? Also despite the fact #coronavirus is freaking me the FUDGE OUT and I’ve just been told I’m unable to visit my Grandma - one of the main reasons I’d flown from the other side of the world to eventually get to London - I’m determined to try and keep my insane anxiety at bay and enjoy my next few days in The Netherlands. Keep healthy out there guys, and take a second to think of the elderly or more vulnerable who could be severely more affected than just us .. 🇳🇱 🌍 💕

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