Sally’s Safe and Connected Travel (2026)

Fellow COVID long-hauler planning accessible trips for people with chronic illness and sharing polyvagal strategies to support nervous system expansion through travel—not crash. ✈️🧠🫁🫀 | Fora Travel Advisor Are you feeling isolated and hopeless— like you’ll never get your life back? Are you suspecting that the mental side is the cog that is preventing you from returning to a normal life? Hi, I’m Sally and I help Covid long haulers who find themselves struggling alone in the dark to move out of extreme chronic fatigue and into recovery so they can find joy and meaningful activity again. I know it’s possible because I was once there too. This is the worst club in the world that none of us wanted to join, but it turns out that there are some super awesome people here! Despite what you’ve been told, recovery from Long COVID is possible. It takes time, effort, and patience. But it can be done. I know, because I have Long COVID. I understand what you’re going through. My turning point came in September 2021 when I started the Safe and Sound Protocol—an non-invasive behavioral neural intervention (delivered via audio) designed to reset the autonomic nervous system by building in more flexibility. Finally, my body transitioned out of constant immobilization and started to heal. Suddenly, I had more gratitude and connection to others, more energy, way less brain fog, and was finally able to start working full time again. This has led me to my mission of helping others do the same. I support people with Long COVID through:
-Highly personalized one-on-one coaching
-Administration of the Safe and Sound Protocol by myself and my team
-Public speaking and advocacy on Long Covid to medical and behavioral health and human resources professionals

I know what you’re going through is real, despite what your doctors may have told you. And I’m here to help!

16/09/2026

Imagine Thanksgiving, but without all the awkward conversations about masking and testing and HEPA filters.

If you’d rather just enjoy the holiday this year, how about driving to a local spot instead? I can handle the hotel, logistics, and even coordinate with family! And also someone else can cook you all dinner, in a gorgeous outside environment!

DM me to start planning now before these spots sell out!

09/09/2026

Poppy wrote in The Telegraph this weekend about how disability has apparently become “cool” among young women.

I mean… fu***ng seriously?

I got sick in March 2020. Since then, I’ve had to learn how to travel with a body that requires wheelchair assistance through airports, an N95 on planes, medication refrigeration, more rest, fewer transitions and a frankly absurd amount of advance planning.

None of that is particularly cool.

What I have done is refuse to disappear.

I still want to see the world. I still want beautiful hotels and fabulous food and ridiculous plane seats and places I’ve been dreaming about for years.

And I’m going to keep showing that part too.

Because chronically ill and disabled people being visible, having fun, traveling, dressing up, going out, taking selfies and generally declining to look appropriately miserable for other people’s comfort is not evidence that disability has become fashionable.

It’s evidence that we still have lives.

But sure, Poppy. I did it for the likes.

Oh, and if you ever find yourself joining our apparently very cool little club, don’t worry. I’ll still book your travel.

08/09/2026

A few things I DIDN’T manage to fit into this Reel about why I loved for chronic illness:

☕️ **Full breakfast delivered to your suite.** And I mean actual breakfast, not coffee and a bread roll. If mornings involve meds, nausea, bathroom trips or needing an hour to become a human being, you can eat slowly, in your pajamas, on your own schedule.

🍽 **24-hour in-suite dining.** If your body is done for the day, you don’t have to get dressed and drag yourself to a restaurant just to eat.

🐟 **The buffet isn’t really a buffet.** Food at Emporium Marketplace is cooked to order. I ate a ridiculous amount of fish and vegetables, and none of it had been touched by norovirus fingers

☕️ **The service saves spoons.** I’d barely be standing at the coffee bar before someone would take my order, tell me to sit down and bring it to me. That might sound tiny. When standing costs energy, it really fu***ng isn’t.

🚢 **You unpack once.** Seven days, multiple destinations, same bed, same bathroom, meds stay exactly where you put them. This is one of the biggest reasons I love cruising with chronic illness.

🏝 **You choose what a port day looks like.** Private air-conditioned tour around an island? Great. Get off for an hour? Great. Stay onboard and lie on your terrace all day? Also great.

♿️ And there are the more traditional accessibility options too, including accessible suites and assistance getting on and off the ship.

The thing I kept coming back to all week was this:

**Service is an accessibility feature.**

When your body has limited energy, every unnecessary thing somebody else can do for you is energy you get to spend actually enjoying your vacation.

And THAT is my kind of accessible travel.

If you’re chronically ill and want the fabulous trip without having to personally engineer every fu***ng accessibility detail, follow me. That’s what I do.

07/09/2026

Kefalonia had been on my bucket list since I first read *Captain Corelli’s Mandolin*.

And this summer, I finally went.

I got there on a cruise, then spent the day exploring the island with a private guide in an air-conditioned vehicle.

And honestly, it’s a pretty perfect example of what I mean when I say:

**Same bucket-list trip. Different body. Different plan.**

I didn’t need to give up Kefalonia because I got sick.

I needed to change the logistics.

Arriving by cruise meant no extra hotel change, no unpacking and repacking, and the same bed waiting for me at the end of the day.

A private tour meant I could see the island without navigating public transport, waiting around in the heat or trying to keep up with a group tour. We could move at my pace, in air conditioning, with a guide and vehicle entirely to ourselves.

I still got to see the place I’d wanted to see for years.

I just did it in a way that worked for the body I have now.

That’s what accessible travel should be: **not a smaller trip. A better-designed one.**

Follow me if you’re trying to figure out how to keep taking the trips on your bucket list with chronic illness.

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