Cycling Post-Adventure Blues: The Side of Adventure We Don't Show

About this episode

Bella Molloy discusses the challenges of post-adventure blues after returning from a journey.

In this solo episode, I'm talking about post-adventure blues. The experience of coming home after a big journey and finding it so much harder than you ever expected. It's a theme that has come up again and again across three years of conversations on this show, and one I've been deliberately exploring with guests for the past year. The prompt for this episode was a brilliant piece of research by previous guest Alee Denham of cyclingabout.com. Alee fed every transcript from Seek Travel Ride in...

People in this episode

Host: Bella Molloy

Topics covered

• post-adventure blues
• cycling
• travel
• mental health
• personal experience

Keywords

• post-adventure blues
• cycling
• travel
• mental health
• Alee Denham

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: cyclingabout.com

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