No matter how far you travel around the world, your brain will always be in the same place. The dispatches in this category cover useful skills and tools for maintaining a great relationship with your constant travel companion.
5 Tips for an OCD Flare-up on Vacation
As somebody who struggled in the past with OCD and now works with people as they’re navigating recovery, first of all: know that it’s not
Video: How to Have Panic Attacks on Planes
Preparing for a panic attack on your next flight is a practice that begins long before your departure date. This video covers five tips to
What is climate anxiety?
Climate anxiety is what you feel noticing the drip of anomalous ecosystem data and extreme weather events emerging on the timeline in front of you
5 Tips for Preventing Digital Nomad Mental Health Issues
Alright, vagabond laptop warriors, listen up. While the lifestyle of working from anywhere in the world sounds like it’s totally about sitting in Zen gardens
Can you solo travel after 30?
One of the most common questions on digital nomad and solo travel forums is some form of: Are you allowed to travel solo after 30?
Traveling after recovery from mental illness
When your Guide first started traveling internationally, many years ago, it also coincided with the time when I was just starting to spend a lot
Is solo traveling lonely?
Questions and comments on whether solo traveling is lonely come up often in travel forums. Scrolling through the solo travel subreddit just now, around every
How do digital nomads make friends?
If you’re already a digital nomad and wondering how to build friendships while traveling, or you’re thinking about becoming a digital nomad but your anxious
Should you wet wipe airplane seats?
If you want to make your mental health worse, wipe away! But if you want to take care of your mental health or recover from
Recovered OCD pro on how to handle health anxiety
There was a time when just living in my home was a mess of health anxiety compulsions. Washing my hands under scalding hot water again
5 mental health tips for your first trip after the pandemic
Whether you’ve already got your first trip booked in a couple of years, or you’re planning your first post-pandemic vacation, these tips will help you
What if you lose control while traveling?
Anxieties about relapse, having a psychotic break, struggling with depersonalization, or just having a classic panic attack while traveling, is just generally one of the
5 tips for eating alone when traveling solo.
When your Guide struggled with my mental health, I had so many compulsions around food and eating, in restaurants or at home. Those only became
Travel OCD: Compulsively checking your passport
Compulsively checking your passport may feel like it’s necessary or it will relieve anxiety, but it’s actually a source of anxiety and another particularly disturbing
Taking photos of appliances to relieve travel anxiety.
It’s a very common compulsion to take photos before leaving the house. Not even when it’s a big trip, but just to the grocery store
Huitlacoche – Trying a food that scared me
Growing up, I knew huitlacoche as “corn smut”. It’s a fungus that grows out of corn. And I was terrified of it. It looked like
Guided Meditation: The Five Remembrances
Buddha’s Five Remembrances, as translated by Thich Nhat Hanh. This is a guided meditation for working on illness and death, accepting loss, and touching the
What is Eco Grief?
Eco-grief was somewhat responsible for starting off on this adventure and documenting the journey. Part grief for what’s already been lost, and part anticipatory grief
Dharma talk on climate anxiety, trauma and justice
Earlier this year, as part of the excellent work they’ve done to bring their meditation community online during the pandemic, Upaya Zen Centre hosted a
Introvert or social anxiety?
It is not this Guide’s intention to mess with any strongly held beliefs you have about being introverted. But as I’ve worked with people over
5 Tips for Traveling with OCD
If you’re dealing with OCD, you can do incredible adventures. When this Guide was struggling with serious OCD and anxiety, I also did one of
What if you relapse on vacation?
In planning the perfect vacation, lining up the right hotels, the best tours, all the train-flight-freighter-donkey connections, the visas, the insurance, the kids’ school schedules,
Practicing Loving Kindness in Granada
A solo trip to Granada for walking mindfully in the magical streets and exploring a self-guided retreat focused on Loving Kindness Meditation.
Getting Over a Fear of Panic Attacks on Planes
A mental fitness workout plan for cutting out the compulsions that fuel panic attacks and learning how to handle travel like a mindful pro.