Raising Awareness Challenges and Sponsorship

Welcome to my planning page for challenges to raise awareness of chronic pain conditions and opportunities to raise money for the charities who support with these diagnoses. 

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On here you will see my rough plans for future challenges as well as pages with more detailed prep and plans and how you can give money to specific charities.

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I'm on my own journey towards healing after post-natal depression, being diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis and finding out I am neurodivers (ADHD).  I've had personal struggles in finding myself after moving from London to Amsterdam in the Netherlands and I am excited to bring together opportunities to reclaim my power with raising awareness for causes that support me and the people I work with in The Pain Clinic.

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In June my partner and I separated and made the decision to "bird-nest" at home, meaning that the children will live permanently in the home we built, and my partner and I will swap in and out on the weekends. Through the summer we have been able to use a flat in Amsterdam to do this, but at the end of August we will lose this space and it all gets a bit more complicated. As my partner is Dutch, he will stay with his family, but I don't feel really comfortable doing that and so i will have to find a different plan. 

Since I love cycling, my idea is to combine my love of cycling and seeing parts of the Netherlands using bike and train where I can. I'll be doing a mixture of camping and couch-surfing as I go, and living the kind of pseudo-nomadic life that I dreamt of as a teenager.