Beautiful Voyager is an emotional wellbeing site for overthinkers, people pleasers, and perfectionists. It’s filled with personal stories about mental health, expert guides about anxiety, and the latest thinking about how to navigate the hormone waves anxiety brings with it. It's also a community space where people can ask questions and connect with others.

I first created Beautiful Voyager in 2015 when, after years of talk therapy, I was diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder by a neurologist. I created this site to explore why I never knew that anxiety was behind the migraines, nausea, and physical pain I was experiencing. What would it take to feel better? And were there other overthinkers out there struggling with similar issues as me?

In 2020 I wrote my first book, Get Out of My Head: Inspiration for Overthinkers in an Anxious World, based on some of the learnings I’d gathered from the site and the Beautiful Voyager community.

It’s now been a decade since I started explore these topics, learnings from so many people in this space: incredible nonprofit leaders, academics, and of course other Voyagers. I still feel there is a lack of coherent curious investigation into the world of mental health for people like me — deep-thinking problem-solvers with a desire to fix what was broken. I have learned that in the case of mental health, fixes are layered, complex, and confusing. Beautiful Voyager is our shared space to explore these questions together. I hope you find information that helps you on your journey, fellow Voyager. - Meredith Skrzypek Arthur, January 2025

Voyagers are the people who make up the Beautiful Voyager community. At heart, we’re a bunch of sensitive internal travelers. Yes, Voyagers are overthinkers, people pleasers, and perfectionists, but that’s really shorthand for a certain type of person who struggles with stress, anxiety, and overthinking. Some may describe Voyagers as Highly Sensitive People, others may talk about our easily stimulated brains, and of course the word “neurotic” will be salad dressing tossed into the mix. But however you make sense of these traits, they are special, and they are what make up the Beautiful Voyager community. Explore the Voyager Lighthouse map to find the Voyager closest to you right now!

Beautiful Voyager is a place for curious mental health exploration. We believe that healing is not linear and requires consistency, open-mindedness, and experimentation (knowing those things can be hard to achieve in a moment in suffering). We believe that if something works, you should pay attention to it since paying attention to small wins can lead to a big win over time. We believe healing starts with learning how to feel safe internally. Since that’s not a straightforward task, it requires wayfaring, or traveling beyond our comfort zones. The best way to do this is hand-in-hand with others which is what our nervous system is looking for, anyway. We know that the study of the human brain and nervous system is still in its infancy and want a front seat to the latest learnings as they arrive. In the meantime, we’ll support each other on our voyages and experiment about new ways to feel better.