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Mental Health Awareness Walk Around Great Britians Coastal Path and Islands
Walking an estimated 6,500 miles around the Britain's coastline and over 200 inhibited islands to spread awareness for mental health, with a 15kg bag and a therapy dog.
Walking an estimated 6,500 miles around the Britain's coastline and over 200 inhibited islands to spread awareness for mental health, with a 15kg bag and a therapy dog.
Walk2Talk with Lumber2Living for Mental Health Awareness
Walking around the Great British perimeter, starting with its inhibited islands.
Get up with the sunrise, sleep when the sunsets, keeping the sea to the left, walk as far as we can each day, rest when we need to and repeat.
Mental Health conditions in people are very common the walk in hoping to spread awareness and help others see they are not alone in their struggles. This walk hopes to document as many people stories along the way, including the instigator Rebecca.
She hopes to promote through her story actions are louder than words, get out, listen and talk to people with experience.
Donate to a Mental health Charity Chosen by Walk2Talk or to the Lumber2Living Cause. Anything Helps alot, Thankyou.
Donation to L2L Walk2Talk help with food, ferries and supplies to keep going on our mission around Great Britian.
Donate to a Mental health Charity Chosen by Walk2Talk or to the Lumber2Living Cause. Anything Helps alot, Thankyou.
Donation to L2L Walk2Talk help with food, ferries and supplies to keep going on our mission around Great Britian.
We want to walk and talk for a local charities that need help within their own mission to help the understanding of mental health or to help people through a crisis.
All donations are used to encourage creators to discover more in life for
Your generous donations help us pay for ferries, food, camping supplies/equipment and to reach more people affected by poor mental health with wisdom, advice, support and information via walking around the country hearing stories and documenting them
"There really is no plan."
"Go as far as my legs will take me. Stop when I need to, sleep when I need to and take my time on the journey of a life time."
"Just always have the sea on my left and turn left wherever it is safe to do so, to take me on my way and hopefully in the end, i will end up where I started but with a great deal more wisdom and courage."
"There really is no plan."
"Go as far as my legs will take me. Stop when I need to, sleep when I need to and take my time on the journey of a life time."
"Just always have the sea on my left and turn left wherever it is safe to do so, to take me on my way and hopefully in the end, i will end up where I started but with a great deal more wisdom and courage."
Rebecca, Maddie and a Tent.
Rebecca is a veteran and a trained psychologist with mental health conditions. Her and Maddie her therapy dog, have tried everything from medical help, holistic self care to graduating with honors in a Psychology degree, to help understand her self and the people around her also troubled but came to realise the only way to find freedom from negitative thoughts or positive contentment from within her head is through communication and action. She walks to inspire and encourage people to talk about mental health weather it is their own or someone else's.
Rebecca and Maddie are on a mission to make a change, document their journey so others can follow and spread awareness through their own experiences with mental health, so people can feel less alone and more inspired to take action.
She began her journey thinking she was alone and in fear she was destined to be alone due to her mental health conditions and labels. She would lock herself away for months and talk to no one in her dispear. She had researched, self-cared and tried to talk with those she cared about with no positive results or improvement, she continued to feel numb and lost still despite her efforts. It was only when she went outside of her comfort zone to meet other people striving for a better scene of meaning for life, that she found how she wanted to express her pain through walking and talking, hearing peoples stories and spreading awareness of mental health through her experiences and knowledge.
Reasons Why
Reason i started this, is because i really suffered with depression/PTSD and started to get a phobia of being out side and out of my comfort zone. My conditions took over my vibrant ability to connect and care of others. I became self absorbed, self contained and scared of being me. I knew anywhere is better than where I am now or where my imposing thoughts were taking me and I felt sure I wasn't alone, in my long set loneliness.
I did psychology at uni and trained to be a counselor after spending 8 years trying to punish myself for not doing enough or being enough and trying to understand the reason why, for my decisions, reactions and to understand people through my life with underlining mental health.
I past my degree and i wanted more people to come together and talk about their mental health men in particular, in honour of my dad that committed sucide and for the knowlendge and experience that men do not talk easierly. So I set up a mental health workshop in Bournemouth inspiring people to work with there hands doing something that they have never tried to do before while talking with a counsellor and craftsman/woman, which went well but realised I can’t help anyone if I’m still lost and asking why about my own journey and also realising it is difficult telling people about your own experiences when they want to work towards letting go of their own in the time they come to the workshop. Furthermore, the listening ears I give at the workshop only reaches a many few with me being in one place all the time and not being very able on social medias to express the passion I have for mental health awareness and what needs to be show and spoke about for people to realise they are not alone.
My state of mind needed action and i hoped along a walk the around the coastal paths of the UK including some of its inhibited islands would reset my appreciation for life and people. I believe the walk will be hard but easier than the mental struggle I go through everyday, so why not make it matter. The problem is we all know something about mental health and the damages it can do but do nothing physically about it (me included), so why not, i lose nothing by trying and gain plenty by giving it a go.
The world and most of the people in it are guided and governed to obey and conform. This has made alot of people very persimistic and weary to fit in and fit there charactistics into neat boxes that do not disturb the societal norms in life... We become our environment wherever that may be at any moment and the people we surround ourselves with we mutate certain characteristics to fit around wealth its for comfort or consideration, especially if you are an empathetic kind of being. I was exposed to alot of negitivity through my life however i developed a mindset of numbing to deal with it. I’m very much an ‘Im alright’ kind of person and a master of deflection, certainly perfected that techniques now I have learnt how to counsel others. Almost convinced myself my experiences don’t matter as much as others.
This is why I feel like if I walk and make my words present by my action and the mission for the cause, in some way I think I will find it easier to express how I have felt for years and hopefully people will relate and join in on the journey along the way.
Sometimes it just takes one person to show you how to get going again, to motivate you to let go. So many sit in silence until it is too late without taking action like my dad and my mum that has ran from all people to keep herself safe, even her daughters.
Legends that have done it
Legends that have done it
Quinton Lake, mail@quintinlake.com, 07973 139345 - 6,835 miles and took 454 days over five years, average 15 miles a day.
(https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/oct/19/i-walked-the-perimeter-coast-of-britain-photo-essay)
Alex Ellis Roswell - raised £6,344 for rnli
https://www.coastmagazine.co.uk/people/living-by-the-sea/meet-man-who-walking-entire-british-coastline/
Jim Morton - £23,000 for the Ghurka Welfare
https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2022-07-15/meet-the-man-currently-walking-around-the-entire-coastline-of-great-britain
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What i am putting in the bag.
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