Hello and welcome to the Simply Anxious Adventures blog page! We’ve had lots of requests to blog about our journey on the South West Coat Path and our musings along the way, and since now is the time to cosy up and hibernate for winter what better opportunity to start!

First things first, where did this idea even come from, I hear you cry?! Well, read on…

After becoming friends through our love of movement, and the nourishment of mind, body and soul (Eve will ALWAYS be grateful to Luisa for introducing her to yoga), we set ourselves a challenge. But, it is a challenge with a difference – no deadlines, no ambitious targets or pushing our bodies to the limits. Hold up, what’s challenging about that?! Well, the more you get to know us, the more you’ll understand why this will be no easy feat! We’re both busy, feisty females juggling rather a lot in our world here in Minehead, West Somerset. So, here lies our challenge…

–          To prioritise time for ourselves

–          To immerse ourselves in nature. Like, fully.

–          To S L O W D O W N and take time to breathe from hectic modern life

–          To see some new sites in our beautiful corner of the world and explore the secrets of the South West Coast Path

–          To share, offload, and gain perspective on some of our thoughts and struggles, and therefore manage our anxiety better

–          To celebrate our strong and beautiful bodies and what they can do

–          To help and inspire others who might be in a similar position!

The list could go on, but that pretty much sums it up for now. We are so excited! So, what can you expect from following our adventures on the Coast Path? Well, ALL OF THE photo spam of course. The beautiful views the coast path has to offer, with some close ups of the beauty we find along the way, happy (or not so happy) selfies and of course our celebratory food and drink at the end! We’ll be reviewing each stage in our own special way for those of you wanting to find out more before you set out on your own journeys, and providing our professional (and often not so professional, sorry in advance about our sometimes colourful language, ahem…) insights into managing your mental and physical health.

The other thing that drew us together? The gift, and burden, of anxiety. Something that we both manage well on the whole, but also really struggle with, and therefore a topic that often comes up when we spend time together. We’ll be writing about the topics that come up in the hope it gets the conversation out there, and helps someone else who might also be suffering. And if it gets more people out on our beautiful Coast Path, then bonus! So, we want to hear from you! What topic would you like to see discuss on our next walk, and penned down into a helpful article format? We’re both fountains of knowledge in our different fields (more on this in another post!) and we love learning, so you can expect self-help and advice based on sound evidence. However, as this is something so close to us, some of our views will be deeply personal as well and may just be a bit of open reflection – perhaps it can encourage you to do the same. Wonderful.