Walking With Purpose: Supporting Our Veterans Living With PTSD
Some walks are about fitness. Some are about clearing the head.
This one is about remembering, honouring, and standing beside those who once stood for us.
I’m taking on a charity walk to raise funds and awareness for our veterans living with PTSD. It’s a cause that deserves more than quiet acknowledgment. It deserves action, conversation, and support that lasts longer than a headline.
Many veterans carry home more than their kit. They return with memories that don’t fade when the uniform comes off. PTSD doesn’t always look the way films portray it. Sometimes it’s loud and disruptive. Sometimes it’s silent, isolating, and invisible to everyone except the person living inside it. Either way, it can be relentless.
Our veterans are trained to be resilient, to push through, to put others first. That strength, admirable as it is, can also make it harder to ask for help. Too many struggle alone, long after the parades end and the medals are tucked away in drawers.
This walk is my way of saying: you are not forgotten.
Every step I take represents the distance between how veterans are often seen and how they actually live. It represents the long road to recovery, the good days and the brutal ones. It represents solidarity. I may walk for a few hours or days, but many live with PTSD for years.
The funds raised will go directly towards organisations that provide mental health support, counselling, crisis intervention, and community resources for veterans and their families. These services save lives. They rebuild confidence. They remind people that asking for help is not weakness, it’s courage in another form.
If you’re able to donate, please know that no amount is too small. A single pound still carries weight. If you’re unable to donate, sharing this post, starting a conversation, or simply learning more about PTSD in veterans makes a difference too. Awareness creates understanding, and understanding creates change.
This walk isn’t about heroics. It’s about humanity.
It’s about recognising that freedom comes at a cost, and that cost shouldn’t be paid forever by those who served. It’s about ensuring that when veterans come home, they come home to a society willing to walk alongside them, not ahead of them, and not away from them.
Thank you for taking the time to read this. Thank you for supporting, sharing, donating, or even just pausing to reflect. Together, step by step, we can help lighten a load that’s been carried for far too long.
If you’d like to support the walk or learn more about where the funds are going, please follow the link below.
Let’s keep walking. Together. 🤍🚶♀️🚶♂️
Support my March in March
This year I will be taking on March in March to raise vital funds for life-changing mental health treatment for veterans.
Combat Stress is the UK's leading charity for veterans' mental health. For over a century, they've helped former servicemen and women deal with issues like trauma, anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Today, they provide support to veterans from every service and every conflict.
I’m taking on March in March to help take vital steps towards ensuring veterans can get the support they need.
Thank you so much for your support and together we march!
