Creativity vs Mental Health

Writing is hard. What  seems like an easy thing, sending thoughts to paper, turns about to be strenuous, to an almost overwhelming degree. A combination of the physical act of moving your hand to type or write, combined with the mental contention of forming your thoughts coherently, it leaves the writer feeling drained after only …

How travelling saved my life.

Almost eighteen months ago, I departed for what my friends & family referred to as "The adventure of a lifetime"- I however, rejected that labelling, but only because that implied I would probably never do it again. On the first of March, after around an hour sleep, I departed from Heathrow to explore the other …