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I want to say, I do understand your questioning and dilemma. We cannot exist in a vaccum and the Camino doesnt exist for us to escape from the difficulties and complexities of the world, and even the grief (my opinion, I realize others' may be...
I don't have social anxiety, but I am flying to Spain tomorrow with someone who does to start a Camino. I will be better able to report after that.
I see a number of people responding along the lines "if you want to be with people, you can; if...
True. But it is still a massively different situation to what many people experience in normal every day life at home.
It's a certain kind of people who go on that kind of pilgrimage, and the pilgrimage situation makes many people more open than...
I’m in a similar situation, I’m also a newbie, planning my first Camino this coming August. I have a history of lots of things including social anxiety (and many, many more issues). I used to be painfully shy and introverted, but I’ve come a long...
Your post is really compelling to me. I walked the Portuguese Camino and Spiritual Variant from Tui last May/June. I also have some social anxiety and wondered how that would be on the Camino. I remember sitting on the edge of my bed in a hostel...
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