How Travel Can Improve Your Mental Health w/ Gilad Gamliel

Zero To Travel Podcast

Jason Moore

Society & Culture, Business, Entrepreneurship, Places & Travel

4.6 • 866 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Do you suffer from anxiety? How have the unknowns of the road hindered your travel plans? What role does stress play in your travel planning? Today we are diving into mental health and how it affects your life choices and future plans. My guest is Gilad Gamliel from Anxious & Abroad and he is very open in sharing his struggles with mental health issues, how he has learned to control them, the role travel plays in his journey, and the balance between planning vs. spontaneity. All this and more on today's episode so sit back and enjoy my talk with Gilad! Has your anxiety ever stopped you from your travels? How has travel helped you overcome your anxiety? Send me an audio message or shoot me an email over at Jason@ZeroToTravel.com. Grab all the links discussed over on the show notes episode page. Tune In To Learn: 09:20 Why Start Talking About Mental Health & Diagnoses 13:45 Compulsions & When Did It Start 15:55 How To Tell If You May Need Help 17:45 Breaking Free From The Comfort Bubble 22:05 The Shock To The System 23:45 What Did Travel Do For Gilad 26:30 Freelance & Contract Work Anxiety 28:35 Transformation You See In Yourself During & After Travel 30:15 Tips For Traveling With Anxiety 33:00 The Coming Out Process & Gay Travel Tips 35:35 Travel Highlights 36:20 American Culture & Returning Home 41:45 What Has Been Learned From Putting Yourself Out There And so much more

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0:00.0	Anxiety and stuff in general just feels like something that everybody has to a degree.
0:03.6	And so you always want to be on top of it and you want to be thinking about the things that you are or aren't doing because of your fears and your worries.
0:16.4	You're listening to the Zero to Travel Podcast where we explore exciting travel-based work,
0:21.5	lifestyle, and business opportunities, helping you to achieve your wildest travel dreams.
0:26.6	And now your host, World Wanderer and Travel Junkie, Jason Moore.
0:33.9	Hey there, it's Jason with Zero to Travel.com.
0:37.2	Welcome to the show, my friend. Thanks for hanging out.
0:41.0	Letting me bring a little travel into your ears today. This is the show to help you travel the world on your terms to fill your life with as much travel as you desire.
0:51.0	Talking about an important topic today, mental health and anxiety. I think we all
0:57.2	battle with anxiety to some degree, some more extreme than others. What kind of role can travel
1:05.2	play in mental health? And that's something that we dive into deep with my guest who is very open
1:13.0	and very willing to share his struggles and some of the issues that he's had and how he has
1:20.8	been able to overcome them and how travel helped him do that. And it brings up a lot of interesting questions, one of which is
1:29.3	how do you get on the road and start traveling if you are scared of it? If you're terrified of the
1:35.2	unknown, I know that's not everybody listening to this show. But I think when we are getting
1:42.2	ready to take off on a longer term trip. There are a lot of stresses involved,
1:46.7	or there can be, right? It's not just the trip itself. Some of you may be changing your entire life
1:51.7	situations in order to take off to travel long term or full time. You know, you might be
1:58.0	giving up the place that you live and you might be stressing out
2:01.3	about how you're going to find a place when you get back if you even do come back. You might be
2:07.1	worried about, you know, getting rid of some of your stuff or preparing for your trip or maybe
2:12.1	over planning or not planning enough. All of the unknowns of the road can certainly be a catalyst, I guess I would say,
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