Category: Travel
I took my mom to Thailand’s ‘Party Island’ for 2 weeks
Travelling Full-Time Is A Joy, But I Never Anticipated Its Impact On Body Image
Before departing England to become a digital nomad, my body confidence was at an all-time high.
As a teenager, I developed a distorted relationship with food, bouncing between starvation, binge eating and vomiting, with over-exercising dominating my daily routine. Until my early 20s, I tore my body to shreds every second of the day, hating every scrap of skin.
After discovering the body neutrality and acceptance movements and accessing counseling, I threw off the trappings of diet culture and embraced my body. I still had hang-ups, as we all do, but my self-confidence was stronger and fiercer than ever before. I never anticipated that traveling full-time in South East Asia would threaten that.
I’m a Digital Nomad: Here are the Highs and Lows
Travelling the globe is an adventure I will never regret but when you’re taking it on solo, an unwelcome passenger sometimes makes an appearance: loneliness.
While I constantly meet new people travelling full-time as a digital nomad, it is no easy feat to make and keep friends on the road.
I have been lucky enough to meet people that I see staying in my life forever, encountered plenty that left little to no mark and felt incredible joy surrounded by utter strangers who would soon become friends.
Meet the ‘lost boys’ of south-east Asia – who went backpacking but never came home
It’s impossible to know how many of the 45 million backpacking trips taken each year end with the making of another lost boy. It’s uncharted territory – perhaps because those who become lost deliberately choose to live on continents where they cannot be found.
How My Personal Style Has Changed Now That I’m A Digital Nomad
This April, I boarded a one-way flight from London to Bangkok in Thailand to start my life as a full-time digital nomad. I gave up a cosy rented home in Birmingham to pursue my dream of travelling and working as a freelance journalist throughout South East Asia. In the six months since, it’s been a life-changing adventure that – among many other things – has forced me to explore and reconstruct my fashion identity.
Endometriosis has not stopped my dream of being a digital nomad
I made the decision to become a digital nomad after experiencing burnout. But, unlike so many of my 35 million nomadic peers, my Odyssean journey is haunted by an array of disabling chronic illnesses.
I left the UK for Canada and can’t afford to come home
In April 2022, I flew to south-east Asia for a backpacking trip designed to relieve the stress of post-pandemic life. Now, with the cost of living crisis taking over the UK, I’ll never return to live in my home country – I cannot afford to.
I left full-time work in February 2019 to better manage my collection of chronic and disabling illnesses; the current headliners are endometriosis and fibromyalgia. Remote, part-time work transformed my quality of life by allowing me complete control over my time and distribution of precious reserves of energy.
