jengettinglost

Beyond Borders: Wanderlust Traveling Through Injury, Trauma and Mental Health

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Welcome to my page jengettinglost. Still a work in progress, I have decided to create this Blog to better connect my whereabouts, activities and interests with all of you via my photography on Instagram.

A little bit about myself, I am a self-professed sports junkie, turned travel junkie after a change of lifestyle came about through a serious injury that led me to believe I might never be able to walk again unassisted or pain free.

The catalysts that almost quite literally threw me into my passion for traveling – leading me to my love of photography – were an endless slew of serious bodily accidents and injuries spanning five years, causing permanent damage, chronic pain, lifestyle changes and a completely different outlook on how I could choose to live my life.

I went from thinking I would never be able to walk again – forget about my massive sports addiction – to forcing myself to not let my injuries, pain and other limitations stop me from taking what I could get from life.

The turning point was in July 2016, sitting in my father’s car with him outside of my surgeon’s clinic, on crutches, in pain and finding out that I had to restart treatment again, when I had a total meltdown. 34 years-old, having never traveled, feeling as though I was ten years behind in life accomplishments, and worried that in my current state I wouldn’t get to achieve very much. With the gift of having a friend introduce me to online marking a year earlier, so that I would be able to support myself regardless of my immobility over the previous year and a half, I said to my father… “I think I’m just going to take my laptop, go to Italy and work from there.” My father, a very stern man, simply responded “I think that’s a good idea.”

See you soon!
Jen

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