Hi, I'm Dr. Caroline Leaf and welcome to my podcast, Cleaning up the mental mess.

Well, with COVID over, hopefully, everyone's back to traveling.

I mean, gosh, I was just traveling last night and the airports are so full.

Well that comes to the reason why I'm doing today's podcast because people have been asking me lately what do you do for

your mental health when you're traveling because you want to travel but it can be

such a stressful time so I decided to do a podcast on some tips to help maintain Maintain your mental health while traveling,

so here are nine tips to do that.

So, first thing is plan ahead.

Research or destination,

familiarize yourself with local customs, transport options and potential challenges to minimize surprises.

I cannot stress that enough for someone who has travelled a lot and my kids travel all over the world. This is, this this this podcast has had a lot of input from my kids my four kids have traveled extensively and still do and so these are are really, I mean, they are pros,

so they are, these are really great tips.

So make sure that you research your destination,

you know, because things like, you know,

familiarize yourself with local customs

otherwise you can get into embarrassing situations.

Look at transportation options because maybe you know is Uber is there maybe local underground or whatever that kind of thing and

but any potential challenges that are related to that particular area that you're going

to just to minimize surprises because surprise can really

throw you and can cost a lot of money. Good idea to create an itinerary. If you're

going to a place for the first time and you don't know much about it except what you've read.

When you get there and you're in this incredible place like the first time maybe that you go to

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