{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Holding Patterns","title":"7. A Life Built Around Leaving | Using Travel to Cope, Mental Health & Knowing When to Stay","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3857,"description":"This episode is for anyone who has wondered what it actually means to live the \"traveler\" lifestyle for years at a time.\nToday, I have my friend Andi Borden on the podcast. She has spent the majority of her adulthood living a very nomadic life; many titles can be used to describe her: chef, baker, activist, tree-planting cook, shelter worker…honestly, the list goes on. She's someone who has truly lived a thousand lives, and this conversation reflects that.\nWe get into all of it. How travel can start as a goal and slowly become the only coping mechanism you know. The way moving countries can silence depression and anxiety just long enough to keep going, until you finally have to stop and sit with it. What it feels like to belong everywhere and nowhere at the same time, and why the people who don't travel will never quite understand your life, and why you'll never quite understand theirs either.\nWe also talk about the moment you realize you're tired. Not of travel, but of running. And what it actually looks like to choose to settle down when your whole identity has been built around leaving.\nThis is one of my favorite conversations I've had on this podcast yet. If you've ever sat with that deep, 3 am kind of question…Am I doing the right thing? Am I running from something? Is any of this adding up to what I think it is? I think you’re going to get a lot out of this one._______________________________________________\nHolding Patterns Instagram Here! (https://www.instagram.com/holdingpatternspod?igsh=MXB1ajk3ZHhwdjYxMg%3D%3D)\nCover art by Remy Arnold (https://www.instagram.com/remyarnoldxo?igsh=dWx3aWJsMmZheWNx)\nMusic by penguinmusic - Better Day from Pixabay","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/gzSuZaQKCE_1J6Vl0-5y437s6Mbq3Am3G2qUFbmjEWo/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83ODQx/ODZjYTQyMzI1OGY0/N2VmMjVjYjQyZThh/NjhlYi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}