Traveling alone may seem intimidating at first, but it can also be incredibly freeing. Finding yourself alone in an unknown place forces you to look inward and confront yourself in ways you may have never considered before. This type of trip may be just what is needed to get through a difficult period.
The singer Natalia told in an interview for the podcast eh! how this traveling experience served as a catapult for a personal change after an exhausting musical tour. “I was devastated, but destroyed on all levels,” the artist confessed about her state after her concert tour.
Without taking a moment to process her emotions, the singer threw herself into social activities to avoid facing her reality. “You are putting on a lot of plasters and you are not well,” she admitted.
In order to deal with this very harmful feeling, the woman from Cádiz decided to make a drastic decision: “I made my first trip alone, I took a plane alone, because I’m terrified of flying. I didn’t take any pills to fly to calm me down. And I said “I’m going to face everything, but 100%.”
Natalia has described her decision to travel alone as a direct fight against her fears and an attempt to regain her autonomy and emotional stability. “I flew alone, I took the plane alone, I took a boat from Ibiza to Formentera alone, I got on my suitcase, on my motorcycle, I took my hotel and there were moments when I wanted to cry because I said I’m going to shit on this lonely island and such. But then I started to like it and I said how cool I thought.
The process of facing loneliness in a social environment was especially difficult for Natalia, who at first felt embarrassed to be alone in public: “The hardest thing was when night comes, you have to have dinner in that hotel restaurant where all the girls are. families, couples, everything. And the first day I hid in a little corner as if I wanted no one to see me, what a shame, here, all the people laughing and me alone at a table.”
As her journey progressed, Natalia began to adapt and find value in her solitude, which allowed her to better manage the gazes and comments of others with greater confidence: “It’s just that you are a public figure and you are known. So the people did like that, I noticed it. I left crying on the first day of that dinner at night and on the second night I said, no, in the entire center.” Thus, with a kind of shock therapy, she has managed to overcome her fears.
