{"id":515659,"date":"2026-07-08T10:43:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T10:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/515659\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T10:43:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T10:43:19","slug":"the-surprising-way-that-traveling-solo-has-helped-my-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/515659\/","title":{"rendered":"The surprising way that traveling solo has helped my anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"NNCWUHF6DFCM3MJ66RED4VUDFM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Two years ago, I booked my first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/travel\/tips\/best-solo-travel-japan-mexico-africa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/travel\/tips\/best-solo-travel-japan-mexico-africa\/\">solo trip<\/a>, mid-existential crisis. I had just rung in my 35th birthday home alone, sick with covid. Having spent the last few years white-knuckling through pandemic uncertainty and watching friends disappear into suburbs and parenthood, I realized I couldn\u2019t keep waiting for a partner or a perfectly coordinated girl\u2019s trip to see the world. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two years ago, I booked my first solo trip, mid-existential crisis. I had just rung in my 35th&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-515659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}