Podcast appearances and mentions of megan blandford

There's a bit of a myth out there that we travellers are brave, confident people who never get anxious. From my own life and knowing many other travel-loving friends who also have experienced anxiety, I can promise you this is wrong. Episode 173 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast includes two very special conversations with women who divulge some of their very personal experiences with anxiety and its connection with travel. Firstly, I speak with Megan Blandford (who literally wrote the book on anxiety!) about some of her experiences with anxiety during her travels. Megan gives some really specific examples of how anxiety gripped her on trips to Japan and earlier on a dolphin swim trip and I personally find this one of the best ways to understand more about what anxiety can look like on our travels. I then get the chance to chat with Laura Waters who has just published a book that also features a lot of her anxiety: Laura spend five months hiking from one end of New Zealand to the other and what happened to her anxiety during this trip is fascinating. Links: Megan Blandford https://meganblandford.net/   Her book I’m Fine (And Other Lies) about postnatal depression and motherhood https://amzn.to/2tY7zAc  Laura Waters https://soultrekkers.com.au/  Laura’s book Bewildered https://amzn.to/2S20zu2  How to Deal with Travel Anxiety - Episode 93 - https://notaballerina.com/93  Getting Past Travel Anxiety - Episode 71 - https://notaballerina.com/71  My blog post from a few years back about my experiences with anxiety and travel - https://www.notaballerina.com/2015/02/travel-for-the-anxious-anxiety-prone.html  Join our Facebook group for Thoughtful Travellers - https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtfultravellers Show notes: https://notaballerina.com/173

Megan Blandford talks to Cheryl Akle about motherhood, her postnatal depression, and how she wrote her book, I'm Fine (and Other Lies) to help other women. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

If you experience depression, you may have combined this with travel and either found it made things worse, or better. I would love to imagine that travel could cure depression, but from the chats I had with three different people for this episode, it seems (unsurprisingly, really) that experiences of depression and travel vary as much as people vary. First up today I chat with Justin Watson, who has actually found that travel has been quite helpful in managing his issues with depression. We talk about mindfulness techniques and how practicing these when you travel can be a great way to improve them. Next I speak with Megan Blandford, who has experienced depression while travelling during a period when she was in denial that she had any depressions issues at all. The link between Megan's depression and her adventurous travel activities is something I found really fascinating to discuss. Finally, I talk to Ian Oliver who has had some mixed experiences with depression while he is travelling: from finding that moving to a new destination can give him a kind of "fresh start" and feel much better, to the experience of simply needing to go home. I'm so grateful to each of my guests today for being prepared to open up about such a personal topic - thank you so much Justin, Megan and Ian! Links: Don't forget my next traveljournalschool.com course is the two-week “Start a personal travel blog” course in mid-June - sign up at the link to get more information Justin's blog at Justin’s World - http://www.justins.world Megan Blandford's website -  https://meganblandford.net/   Her book I’m Fine (And Other Lies) about postnatal depression and motherhood is out now and is a brilliant read! Ian’s Barefoot Backpacker blog - https://barefoot-backpacker.com Ian’s podcast “Travel Tales from Beyond the Brochure” - https://barefoot-backpacker.com/category/podcast/  Some resources to get help with depression: Australia:  Beyond Blue - beyondblue.org.au ; Lifeline - lifeline.org.au  UK: NHS - Moodzone page - https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/ ; Mind - https://www.mind.org.uk/  - the mental health charity US: Mental Health America - http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/depression-support-and-advocacy Germany: https://www.deutsche-depressionshilfe.de/ Join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtfultravellers Show notes: https://notaballerina.com/137

No matter how passionate and dedicated to your job you are there’s no doubt there are doubts about how you will feel about your work after you’ve welcomed a bundle of new found joy into your life. The doubts may come from internal questioning on whether you’ll be capable or even willing, or they may come from the external – managers, colleagues, clients etc. Of course you’re also up against the stigmas, false beliefs or even others past experiences around parents not having the capacity to give it their all once they have children. In this episode Emma Walsh and Catherine Brooks bust the myths, confirm the truths and share real life experiences from working with many employers and parents about why baby is definitely not a career buster – unless of course we want it to be! We also welcome special guest, author and journalist, Megan Blandford sharing her Insights from her new book "I'm fine and Other Lies". As always, we invite you to send in your questions on this topic and we will do our best to answer them during the podcast. We love including you in the conversation!

What happens when writing is hard? Meet AWC alumna Megan Blandford, author of 'I'm Fine (and other lies): Postnatal depression, motherhood and trying to actually be fine'. We share tips on how to cut mundane elements from your story. Plus, there are double passes to ‘The Chaperone’ up for grabs. Read the show notes.  Email Valerie and Allison podcast@writerscentre.com.au. WritersCentre.com.au | AllisonTait.com | ValerieKhoo.com 

I'm an incredibly firm believer in the value of taking your children travelling, and my own son, about to turn nine, has already been to 17 countries with me, on a real variety of kinds of trips - and it's been pivotal in how he's developed as a wonderful little human so far. The guests on Episode 131 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast all agree with me on this! First up, I chat with Talon Windwalker, who travelled for six years with his child from the age of nine and could see so many benefits from this constant exposure to other cultures. My second guest, Megan Blandford, regularly goes travelling with her two young daughters. While it started out simply as being necessary to bring them along because she and her husband wanted to continue to embrace their love of travel, she has also seen the girls develop numerous life skills through their travel experiences. Finally I talk with Shannon Entin who now has an adult and a teen child and has used travel over the years to supplement her home schooling, and has really found taking her children travelling helped open up the world to them. Links: Scrubba - https://www.thescrubba.com - use discount code AMANDA15 for a 15% discount off any Scrubba product Talon's website - http://1dad1kid.com/  Megan's website -  https://meganblandford.net/   Shannon's website -  https://thetvtraveler.com  Join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtfultravellers Show notes: https://notaballerina.com/131