All posts by Christina Kantzavelos

Christina is a writer for Writtalin and her many pillow journals. It only took two masters degrees and a pilgrimage (Camino de Santiago) to realize her love for writing and the need to share it with others. By profession, she is a medical social worker and volunteers as an international social worker/interpreter for two local organizations that offer medical aid to various rural communities in Mexico. In her free time, she enjoys traveling the seven seas, in addition to reading, crafting, and spending time with her family and friends. Follow her many adventures on Instagram and Twitter, @buenqamino or at www.buenqamino.com

Knowing that I would be undergoing rotator cuff surgery was frightening enough, but having to worry about what to do during my time off was a stress I did not expect. I was a little nervous and apprehensive, thinking of friends and colleagues of mine who complained of post-surgical blues when they had to take their own medical leave. This is in part due to normalizing a life of going at 100 mph (including holding a full-time job, attending to a family, countless other activities and obligations), and then abruptly slowing downRead More
traveling gluten free
“But, the Spanish eat cheese and bread with everything!” This is what I commonly heard when talking to people about my diet restrictions on gluten and dairy prior to leaving on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela in Spain – a 500-mile pilgrimage that would require me to eat close to 5,000 calories a day in order to handle trekking an average of 15 miles a day, while only being able to carry 15 lbs on my back.  Here’s to hoping the Camino provides (a common phrase you hear throughoutRead More