Pitches wanted for mental health / travel series | $500+ per essay
Added 2020-05-05 16:33:44 +0000 UTCCOMPANY/PUBLICATION: AIRBNB MAGAZINE
From Sam Dylan Finch, Editor at Healthline:
I'm guest editing a series for AirBnb Magazine called "Emotional Baggage," exploring how travel can be part of healing with a mental health condition.
Maybe writing such an essay could help with the quarantine blues?
MENTAL HEALTH AND TRAVEL SERIES:
EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE: How Travel Helps Us Heal
(A collaboration with AirBnb Mag + Sam Dylan Finch)
This series will explore the intersections of mental health, identity, and travel. In particular, we will unpack the idea of who travels, and the role travel can play in personal growth and healing, especially for people living with mental health conditions.
Social media might lead you to believe that travel is about the perfect Instagram selfie and wanderlust. But when you live with a mental illness, travel can actually be a part of healing. Placing ourselves in a new environment allows us to disrupt the daily routines and “autopilot” that so often keeps us stuck.
Many of us can’t heal in the same place where we got sick — and travel can give us the spaciousness and perspective we need to reset and reorient ourselves.
“Travel as medicine” (rather than escapism) might be a provocative idea, but when so much of our mental health can be impacted by place and environment, it’s not a stretch to imagine that travel can be utilized as a powerful, restorative experience for those who are struggling.
We’ll hear from voices who have used travel in exactly this way, even and especially when travel was presented to them as inaccessible or “not for them.”
Interested? Please use the form here to submit your pitch!
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Submissions: Via the webform
Website: https://www.airbnb.com/magazine
