You're listening to the Cruise Tips TV Unplugged podcast. Today we have a special guest on the show.

Maggie Rich is a Florida-based licensed mental health counselor. She helps people tackle life's

biggest struggles, and she happens to think that cruise travel is a powerful mental health tool.

Today, Maggie and I are going to chat about travel anxiety,

the five love languages and how they relate to travel, and lots more.

Welcome to Cruise Tips TV Unplugged. I'm your host, Sherry, and we invite you to join our cruise-loving family

as we travel the world creating cruise videos and vlogs. In this podcast, we talk tips, tactics,

and strategies to help you make every cruise your dream cruise. Maggie, welcome to the show. How are you? I'm good, Sherry. I am so,

so excited to be here with you. I cannot wait to talk about my favorite thing in this world,

which is our mental health. I love it. And cruising, too. Let's be honest, right? And cruising.

And cruising. So most of you probably heard my intro just a few

moments ago, but just to back up a little bit, Maggie and I have been chatting for months and

months behind the scenes about a topic that she felt was important. She's like, Sherry, you know,

someday you and I need to chat about the mental health benefits of cruising, because this is a thing.

And so today we decided

that we were just going to record our conversation, you know, friend to friend, because Maggie has

this thing that she calls the power of the high seas. And this is an important time to bring this topic

up because some of you may know that May is mental health awareness month. So we're going to go ahead and devote a podcast to this.

So I want to start off by Maggie.

Maybe tell us a little bit about your first cruise, your cruise history, and why this topic

is so meaningful to you.

I would love to.

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