Walking the Pennine Way put everything into perspective for me, including my right to be here | Anita Sethi

I got the idea to walk the Pennine Way after being racially abused on a train journey.

I’d been suffering from anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Walking was transformative to my physical and mental health.

I won’t let racial abuse stop me adventuring in a country where I belong.

Anita Sethi is the author of I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain and is featured in the new exhibition A Trail of Inspiration: the Pennine Way at 60 .

She hopes anyone who’s reading this today (or in 60 years ), feels stuck or lost in life, or crushed by discrimination, that you don’t give up.