I had just turned 40 years old.

I’d been fighting migraines and nausea all of my life and had tried every medication and natural approach possible. I'd given up hope of improvement when my neurologist surprised me by saying: I know what's causing your migraines. You have Generalized Anxiety Disorder.

Diagnosis in hand, I searched and searched but found nothing online that spoke to my physical experience of stress, overthinking, and anxiety. I decided that had to change, and that was when Beautiful Voyager was born.

I used my decades of experience working in tech to build the site I needed when I was looking for answers. The first Beautiful Voyager book, Get Out of My Head: Inspiration for Overthinkers in an Anxious Age, was released in May 2020. It is a great place to start learning to ride the wave.

In my current role of Chief of Staff of Pinterest’s product incubation lab, I have been lucky enough to work on new technology in the emotional wellbeing space including the nonprofit app How We Feel, winner Apple’s App of the Year for Cultural Impact in 2022.

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Lifestyle Asia

“Get Out of My Head feels like chatting with a good old wise friend who just gets you. The quest for perfectionism, people-pleasing, underconfidence or the fear of losing loved ones – whatever fills your stress cup, this book is your guiding light. It provides soothing techniques for understanding anxiety and navigating the traps of overthinking through easy exercises, bite-sized learnings and calming visuals. From building awareness around anxiety and identifying triggers to setting healthy boundaries and tools for thriving – Get Out of My Head is a palm-sized guide for overthinkers everywhere.” January 9, 2024

Business of Fashion

“…There are also apps designed to assist in this process, such as the non-profit app How We Feel, created by the Yale Centre for Emotional Intelligence and Pinterest, designed to help people better understand their emotional landscape. ‘You go in numerous times a day, you decide how often, you have a scale of energy and mood, [...] and you start to see what your personal trends are,” says Meredith Arthur, a chief of staff at Pinterest and author of Beautiful Voyager, who helped launch the app. “The goal is emotional literacy for the world.” May 15, 2023

NowandMe

“Get Out of My Head by Meredith Arthur is among the best books that helped me overcome my anxiety problems back in college. This book motivates and encourages you to take care of your mental health, dealing with daily-life emotions such as overthinking and stress in a very natural way that we all can relate to. It also provides various scientific and biochemical explanations regarding mental health issues such as depression and emotional exhaustion. Give it a read if you can!” May 24, 2023

Vogue

“…[Get Out of My Head] is an illustrated guide filled with exercises to help pause the overthinking and either kick it aside, or delve deeper into what the actual matter is and how to tackle it. It seems stupidly simple—why buy an illustrated guide book for it, right? If you’ve been through spiralling moments when you recognise just how foolishly you are thinking and overthinking certain scenarios in your head, almost uncontrollably—then you need this, simple or not. Meredith Arthur is also the author of the blog Beautiful Voyager, which is a great resource to help combat overthinking through shared stories, coping tactics and an empathetic approach to mental health…” October 10, 2019

Vox

“…That research eventually formed the foundation of what would become Beautiful Voyager, the online community Meredith Arthur built for “overthinkers, perfectionists, and people pleasers.” When she launched the site in 2015, she recalls people receiving the idea with subtle condescension. “People were quiet. There was some, ‘Good for you, Meredith!’” she says with a laugh. But by the time the fall of 2016 rolled around, she noticed a shift in the way people talked about mental health…” Sep 10, 2018

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