To see life in a new way

Sophie Finlayson Start Date: Jun 13, 2021 - End Date: Jun 12, 2022
  • Cultural Exchange
  • Educational/Research Trip
  • Vacation/Personal Trip
  • Australia
  • Russia, Moscow Oblast, Russia
  • Switzerland
  • Canada
  • Washington D.C., DC, United States of America
  • Nepal
  • Jamaica
  • Costa Rica
  • Netherlands
  • Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • New York, NY, United States of America
  • Africa, Guadalupe, Zacatecas, Mexico
  • Greece

My Travel Story

by: Sophie Finlayson Start Date: Jun 13, 2021 - End Date: Jun 12, 2022
  • Cultural Exchange
  • Educational/Research Trip
  • Vacation/Personal Trip
my name is Sophie im 28 and from the UK. I have suffered with mental health for as long as I can remember and have tried everything you can think of to help; from exercise, to diet, medication to meditations, writing, drawing, rage rooms, therapy of multiple forms. None of which seem to have a major impact on my mental health and when do work only work for a short period of time. I have heard from alot of people how travelling helped them improve their mental health and find new ways of managing and living with their conditions, but also how they saw many cultures treat mental health differently, in good and bad ways. I would like to experience travelling to multiple places to try and improve my own mental health by pushing myself outside my comfortzone and test my limits, but also to learn from others how different it is, what challenges they face in recieving help and how others treat them, and to see if there is any way I can find a way to help others in making people more aware of mental health and how to cope with it yourself or help someone you care about. I have chosen a list of places that I would like to travel to from all over the world to be able to compare the differences, havent set on going to all but will probably pick around 4 to travel to, with very different levels of wealth, values, believes and religions. I have thought about doing this for many years, i have attempted saving and planning for it, but i bottle out of it due to fear and anxiety etc. But i feel with the help of donations to cover costs it will leave me with no excuse to do this. I currently am signed of work and more than anything I want to return, but unfortunatley I am not ready to take that step yet, so I am working towards that and i feel something like this could get me past all my fears and pehaps make a career out of it who knows :) 
  • Australia
  • Russia, Moscow Oblast, Russia
  • Switzerland
  • Canada
  • Washington D.C., DC, United States of America
  • Nepal
  • Jamaica
  • Costa Rica
  • Netherlands
  • Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • New York, NY, United States of America
  • Africa, Guadalupe, Zacatecas, Mexico
  • Greece