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New Zealand to Bali
And the Art of Relaxation Six weeks ago I took – another – leap and moved from New Zealand to Bali, where my partner and I will be spending the next five months living, working, and exploring. Before leaving NZ, my anxiety was sky high. I was about to leave a bubble of absolute safety, […]
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The Isolation of Travelling
To be honest, I have rarely been completely alone in my travels. When I left home to travel to Asia, and eventually move to Australia, I was with someone the whole time. For the past two years, I have had my gorgeous girlfriend by my side, but during these times there has been an immense […]
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Anxiety Journaling
I wanted to dig a little deeper into journaling. I find it to be one of the most healing things I can do for myself and understand myself on a different level. I have wrote this template for anyone who might want to get into journaling but doesn’t quite know where to start. Please feel […]
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My Journey with Anxiety
And things that I find can help. It is very easy to look into someone else’s life and think that they have it all figured out. My intention with this blog was to share my story and to try to inspire others to get out of their comfort zone. So, I want to share a […]
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4 Weeks in The Golden Bay
As I sit writing this on the beach, my heart is full. We have just spent a month in the Golden Bay, and it was just as wonderful as everyone said it would be… When we left Vistara, we had gotten a job at the Anatoki Salmon farm in Takaka – part of the Golden […]
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Away for Christmas
This is now my fourth Christmas spent away from home and it never gets any easier or feel anything like the Christmas’s I hold close to my heart. Christmas at my house back home in Scotland is one big chaotic party. I have quite a large family, who are all very close to each other, […]
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Finding Community
I want to share my first sense of authentic community and human selflessness here in rural New Zealand, that has been beautifully surprising in a time when we are told to be afraid of strangers. While we were exploring the Abel Tasman region, we were camping at a campsite called The Barn in Marahau. It […]
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From Apartment to Campervan
It has been exactly one month since me and my beautiful partner, Lior, sold all of the belongings we had accumulated over a year and a half of living the city life in Wellington and moved into a van indefinitely. It has been a month full of adventure, as well as an overall sense of […]
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Who I Am
Hello, my name is Eilidh. I left my home of Glasgow, Scotland what seems like a lifetime ago – just over 4 years. In that time I have travelled Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Australia and now New Zealand. Looking back at the person who took that first flight from Edinburgh to Bangkok makes me feel […]