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🟠🟠🚝CHOOSE LIFE | CHOOSE SOLO TRAVEL | CHOOSE MOVEMENT

On paper my last 18 months sounds mega, in reality they have been some of my hardest months mentally.

I was prescribed Sertraline (a SSRI) in October 2024 just before my 21st. They took their time to kick in but they have personally helped me so much with my mental health.

Reflecting now this past year has been so good and I’m so lucky to have been able to travel and meet so many amazing people and had some of the best and most open conversations about mental health.

It is good to be back home and back to reality as for me solo traveling has changed my perspective on life indefinitely.

I am not a GP or therapist I just want to let others who may be struggling know that life will get better and that sunshine can follow thunder.

Thank you for all the support and messages recently you guys are all class 🧡. (Honourable mention to @graceehaughton and her 21st what a night hope you’re tearing it up in Australia 🇦🇺). 🟠🟠🚝

#chooselife #choosesolotravel #choosemovement #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthstories

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Age 18 Hideout 🇭🇷:
No clue what I was doing, with the boys, listening to a Dj who knows what he’s doing.

🟠🟠🚝Age 22:
Still don’t know just a lad travelling and dabbling, figuring it out as I go.

First day in BKK, 17th October I got sunstroke. Typical Brit abroad. I refreshed myself the next day with a walk in Lumphini Park, a beautiful place.

Fast forward a month me and others I have met are 2 stepping in Pai.

I was taken physically high in 🇱🇦Vang Vieng whilst paramotoring.

I wrote “the mental traveller” in my journal on a sleeper bus in Vietnam 🇻🇳 didn’t really know what I meant by it still don’t fully!

Some days feel sound some days don’t that’s just how it is.

Picking bits of knowledge up from people along the way, different places, seeing Carrick at the Wheel, cheering your dog’s birthday on a beach in Koh Toa, different ways of living it is funny what sticks with you.

I am just on my own journey. 2 stepping through life, dancing with the locals and local travellers.

Aren’t we all just trying things seeing what sticks doing what we can to feel alright and figuring it out as we go.

Maybe we can all do what we want?

#chooselife🧡 #choosesolotravel #choosemovement #digitalnomads #nofilter

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Want to have fun on a run and then crush a delicious beverage?? 🙋🏻‍♂️🙋🏻‍♀️
Well, we’ll see you tonight for a run on the trails and through the parks while it’s still light out! 😅

@beer.360 Bridge Road Richmond - meet from 5:30 and we hit the pavement at 5:45 👊🏻

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🟠🟠🚝 Part 3-Finale: CHOOSE LIFE. CHOOSE SOLO TRAVEL. CHOOSE MOVEMENT.

Choosing to sit with your own head when it gets loud.
Because there was a point I wanted to stop.

Not dramatic. Just tired.

Too many places. Too many people. Too much going on up there.

And if you’ve never felt that, that constant edge, that noise you don’t really understand it.
Looks like you’re fine. Still moving. Still smiling.
But inside… different story.

So I thought, stop trying, slow it down again, get off the ride.

But you don’t just switch it off.
You learn it. You carry it. You move with it.

And then things started to land.
Re-met Grace.
Familiarity, a fellow old WAC.

Saw my parents after 4 months. Felt real again.

Ran into people from earlier on, like it all meant something after all.

And me…still choosing movement.
Just not running from myself anymore. 🟠🟠🚝

#chooselife🧡 #choosesolotravel #choosemovement #madmonkeypai #austravel

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🟠🟠🚝 Part2: CHOOSE DISCOMFORT. CHOOSE THE UNKNOWN.

No one really talks about this part.

After a few weeks… when everything feels a bit off.
You’re tired, slightly overwhelmed, and questioning if you’ve made the right call.

Then you arrive on Koh Rong.
What could Koh Rong ?
It Koh Ronged for me when I came down with horrid tonsillitis.

But then something shifts.

You start slowing things down.
You find your spots.
You meet people who were strangers a day ago.

And suddenly…you don’t feel so ill or so far from home anymore.

That’s the point most people would’ve turned back.
But it’s also the point where everything starts to get good again.

Part 3 soon 🟠🟠🚝
#chooselife🧡 #choosemovement #choosesolotravel #cambodiatravels #vietnambackpackers

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🟠🟠🚝CHOOSE LIFE | CHOOSE SOLO TRAVEL | CHOOSE MOVEMENT

People ask why I chose to do it on my own.

It started with pints in Dublin, surrounded by good people, thinking everything was calm. But after uni, I knew something wasn’t quite right.

So I left.

Not just for new places or new faces, but to process things in my own way.

To see different cultures, to meet new people, to experience things I wouldn’t have otherwise.

You don’t just find moments out here, you find parts of yourself you didn’t realise were there.

Moments start to make sense again.
I’m still figuring it out every day, but choosing to go was the best decision I’ve made.

Choose solo travel. 🟠🟠🚝

#chooselife🧡 #choosesolotravel #choosemovement #mentalhealthawareness #traveljunkie

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Footy’s back at the G tonight so we had to pay a visit to the colosseum of Aussie sport for HURC this week! 💪🏈🏃

Fast stretches, fun times and fresh beers at the end. A perfect Wednesday! 🎯

#runclub #beerrunners #richmond3121 #runmelbourne #runtobeer

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Good vibes = great mullet progression @mullets4mentalhealth

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First 10 days down under 📍🇦🇺#melbs #digitalnomadlifestyle #ukgarage #efan #unpaidpromotion

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tuktuks HATE to see me coming

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50km Ultra

After a brilliant year of ticking off pretty much every fitness related goal I had, this was the one thing left to tick off.

Couldn’t have asked for a better way to do, my dad and sister getting to join in makes the sore legs this morning all the more bearable😆

Here’s to chasing down some big goals in 2026❤️

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here’s a reminder to all our future new members 🩰🩰 it’s undeniable we are the best on court in london, but it’s what happens off the court which is our favourite thing. we’re more than just a club, we’re a place where you meet your best friends, your future bridesmaids, and the girls who have to put on your sweaty bibs when you get subbed off at training. if you’re feeling hesitant about becoming a social or competitive member, just remember you’re one step away from meeting your friends for life 💟

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