There's a bit of a myth out there that we travellers are brave, confident people who never get anxious. From my own life and knowing many other travel-loving friends who also have experienced anxiety, I can promise you this is wrong.

Episode 173 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast includes two very special conversations with women who divulge some of their very personal experiences with anxiety and its connection with travel.

Firstly, I speak with Megan Blandford (who literally wrote the book on anxiety!) about some of her experiences with anxiety during her travels. Megan gives some really specific examples of how anxiety gripped her on trips to Japan and earlier on a dolphin swim trip and I personally find this one of the best ways to understand more about what anxiety can look like on our travels.

I then get the chance to chat with Laura Waters who has just published a book that also features a lot of her anxiety: Laura spend five months hiking from one end of New Zealand to the other and what happened to her anxiety during this trip is fascinating.

Links:
Megan Blandford https://meganblandford.net/  
Her book I’m Fine (And Other Lies) about postnatal depression and motherhood https://amzn.to/2tY7zAc 
Laura Waters https://soultrekkers.com.au/ 
Laura’s book Bewildered https://amzn.to/2S20zu2 
How to Deal with Travel Anxiety - Episode 93 - https://notaballerina.com/93 
Getting Past Travel Anxiety - Episode 71 - https://notaballerina.com/71 
My blog post from a few years back about my experiences with anxiety and travel - https://www.notaballerina.com/2015/02/travel-for-the-anxious-anxiety-prone.html 
Join our Facebook group for Thoughtful Travellers - https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtfultravellers
Show notes: https://notaballerina.com/173

There's a bit of a myth out there that we travellers are brave, confident people who never get anxious. From my own life and knowing many other travel-loving friends who also have experienced anxiety, I can promise you this is wrong.
Episode 173 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast includes two very special conversations with women who divulge some of their very personal experiences with anxiety and its connection with travel.
Firstly, I speak with Megan Blandford (who literally wrote the book on anxiety!) about some of her experiences with anxiety during her travels. Megan gives some really specific examples of how anxiety gripped her on trips to Japan and earlier on a dolphin swim trip and I personally find this one of the best ways to understand more about what anxiety can look like on our travels.
I then get the chance to chat with Laura Waters who has just published a book that also features a lot of her anxiety: Laura spend five months hiking from one end of New Zealand to the other and what happened to her anxiety during this trip is fascinating.
Links:
<ul>
<li>Megan Blandford <a href="https://meganblandford.net/">https://meganblandford.net/</a> &nbsp;</li>
<li>Her book I&rsquo;m Fine (And Other Lies) about postnatal depression and motherhood <a href="https://amzn.to/2tY7zAc">https://amzn.to/2tY7zAc</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li>Laura Waters <a href="https://soultrekkers.com.au/">https://soultrekkers.com.au/</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li>Laura&rsquo;s book Bewildered <a href="https://amzn.to/2S20zu2">https://amzn.to/2S20zu2</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li>How to Deal with Travel Anxiety - Episode 93 - <a href="https://notaballerina.com/93">https://notaballerina.com/93</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li>Getting Past Travel Anxiety - Episode 71 - <a href="https://notaballerina.com/71">https://notaballerina.com/71</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li>My blog post from a few years back about my experiences with anxiety and travel - <a href="https://www.notaballerina.com/2015/02/travel-for-the-anxious-anxiety-prone.html">https://www.notaballerina.com/2015/02/travel-for-the-anxious-anxiety-prone.html</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li>Join our Facebook group for Thoughtful Travellers -&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtfultravellers">https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtfultravellers</a></li>
<li>Show notes: <a href="http://notaballerina.com/173">https://notaballerina.com/173</a></li>
</ul>

The Thoughtful Travel Podcast with Amanda Kendle is a show for travel lovers. Each episode is packed with travel stories from fellow travel addicts on topics like using foreign languages, meeting the locals, getting lost and what we learn from our travels.

Tales from travel-lovers about why we travel and what we learn from it.

The Thoughtful Travel Podcast

The Thoughtful Travel Podcast with Amanda Kendle - established 2016 - is a weekly show which helps travellers think about how our travels can be good for us and good for the world. We talk about how to make ethical decisions on our trips, sustainable and regenerative tourism, bringing back what we learn from the people and cultures we meet to improve our lives back home, and share the most memorable stories from travelling: fun, scary, educational and more. Most episodes include extracts from conversations with three different guests, centred on a particular topic, but you'll also hear occasional deep dive interviews, recordings from the Thoughtful Travellers Book Club, and Amanda's own experiences from travelling past and present.

The Thoughtful Travel Podcast with Amanda Kendle - established 2016 - is a weekly show which helps travellers think about how our travels can be good for us and good for the world. We talk about how to make ethical decisions on our trips, sustainable and regenerative tourism, bringing back what we learn from the people and cultures we meet to improve our lives back home, and share the most memorable stories from travelling: fun, scary, educational and more. Most episodes include extracts from conversations with three different guests, centred on a particular topic, but you'll also hear occasional deep dive interviews, recordings from the Thoughtful Travellers Book Club, and Amanda's own experiences from travelling past and present.