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SOS! What’s Your Advice?
November's here. Cue the start of the holidays and the pile-up of work at the office and school. It’s a moment when many of us are saying: “Hello, ol’ friend anxiety!”
A Poem Illustrating My Experience with G.A.D.
Hi, I'm Melissa. I was inspired by the poetry of Rupi Kaur to write this poem. It's dedicated with love and support to the anxious.
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Introducing New Editor Mohammedi Khan
I am excited and humbled to be joining your journey of understanding, acceptance, and coping with ‘generalized anxiety disorder’. As an editor of this publication, I will continue to ensure the integrity of your submissions and create an integrative platform between us Voyagers.
Are You Bugged By Other People's Behavior?
You know how it’s easier for the people around us to see us our patterns than for us to recognize them ourselves? Well, I’d been married for nearly a decade before my husband recognized the repetition of my complaints about the world around me.
Migraines Are a Body-wide Disorder
I've reread this New York Times article about a newly released migraine study again and again. The growing awareness that migraines are a "body-wide" disorder involving chemical reactions in the brain feels like a newly revealed puzzle piece.
The Anvil, or Why I Was Anxious In Court
Two days ago, I was in court all day. I was also battling intense anxiety all day. I tried to stay aware of my feelings, and today, I attempted to revisit those sensations to make sense out of the experience...there is a fixed point where anxiety ceases being a trivial nuisance and takes up residence in my body, so that I can literally feel it. When I experience anxiety, it feels like an anvil is sitting on my heart. So, that’s what I have termed the sensation: the Anvil.
What They Wrote When We Married
On the occasion of our 10th anniversary, I uncovered the original article written in Icelandic about my wedding with Michael. I thought it would be nice to have the translation typed (it was originally written in longhand by a friend of the family). Some things that struck me: how poetic and gentle the language is, and how hilariously wrong our meeting story is. I suppose trying to understand food media back then was a challenge...
How I Confronted an Awkward, Stressful Customer Service Situation
When I first started thinking about selling a first-ever, limited-edition t-shirt sale to raise money for a nonprofit I believed in, I was filled with trepidation. I’d be asking people to buy something, and I didn’t control the production. What if the shirts were scratchy?
I was forced to confront my fear when the shirts arrived, and the sizing was totally off. Here's how I dealt with it.