Meredith Arthur

San Francisco

Author at Freelance

Founder at Beautiful Voyager

Chief of Staff, TwoTwenty @pinterest. Author #GetOutOfMyHeadBook out now. And I created @bevoya.

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Beautiful Voyager

2 weeks ago | beautifulvoyager.substack.com | Meredith Arthur

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Somatic Meditation

2 months ago | beautifulvoyager.substack.com | Meredith Arthur

Hello Voyagers, The deeper I get into mindbody science, the more I am blown away by what it has to teach me. In this newsletter I’ll dig into an approach to meditation I never really understood until now. I’ll share my perspective on what makes it powerful and explore how it differs from my traditional longstanding meditation practice. First, the groundwork.
The Promise of Implicit Learning

Feb 17, 2025 | beautifulvoyager.substack.com | Meredith Arthur

Dear Voyagers,The past few months have brought rapid acceleration to the number of topics I’ve wanted to share with you. “I can’t believe people don’t know this!” I say to myself, furiously typing away about Dr Shapiro’s lucky discovery of EMDR therapy or the particular chemical pathways that explain why introverts remember arguments longer than extroverts do. In moments like this, the world of mindbody science fills me with profound curiosity and admiration.
An Open Letter to a NYTimes Reporter

Jan 25, 2025 | beautifulvoyager.substack.com | Meredith Arthur

Dear Voyagers,A couple of weeks back I opened Instagram to see a writer friend of mine sharing a newly published New York Times Magazine article whose title seemed promising: I couldn’t agree more! “YAY,” I thought to myself.
Anxious Achiever and Beautiful Voyager

Jan 6, 2025 | beautifulvoyager.substack.com | Meredith Arthur |Morra Aarons-Mele

In this episode of the Anxious Achiever podcast Morra and I dig into some of the new techniques for managing stress and anxiety I first wrote about in the Beautiful Voyager Stress Relief Cheat Sheets here on Substack. I love Morra’s description of the episode: “In the high stakes world of technology companies, a lot of lip service is paid to well-being and mental health. But Meredith Arthur has been researching practical ways to manage anxiety and overthinking since before it was cool.
Litmus Test

Aug 18, 2024 | beautifulvoyager.substack.com | Meredith Arthur

Welcome reader! Whether you’re a new subscriber or you’ve been with me for years, I’m happy you’re here. I’m Meredith Arthur. I work as a Chief of Staff for Pinterest’s product incubation studio and am the founder of Beautiful Voyager. For the past nine years, I’ve been writing about how overthinkers, people pleasers, and perfectionists navigate anxiety. My last series of posts seemed to resonate with a lot of readers, which of course thrilled me.
Your one true safe space

May 20, 2024 | beautifulvoyager.substack.com | Meredith Arthur

Dear voyagers,Though I researched it extensively ahead of time, I didn’t really know what going off Lexapro after 8 years would feel like. No amount of consulting with doctors or Googling could pave the way for what I think of as my 2024 “hero’s journey.”It has not been easy. Though I spend a full year titrating down on the medication, the last step (from 2.5 mg to zero) has been by far the hardest. It started with physical discomfort including severe stomach distress.
A brief history of the nervous breakdown

May 10, 2024 | beautifulvoyager.substack.com | Meredith Arthur

There are a few popularly recognized events left in psychology and they tend to have either a short shelf life, temporally speaking (the panic attack), or a longer one (the psychotic break). Somewhere along the way – actually, I can tell you exactly when – we lost not only the language to describe the space in between – the nervous breakdown – but also the will to put this psychological event into the language of the physical.
Too "smart" to heal

Apr 29, 2024 | beautifulvoyager.substack.com | Meredith Arthur

Dear voyagers, If you look at my writing over the years, you’ll see lots of discussion of mental health in all of its permutations — from diagnosis to treatment, public policy to innovation. What you’ll never find is a post that says, “I finally understand what is wrong with me and how to fix it.” Until today.
Clinical Somatics

Mar 3, 2024 | beautifulvoyager.substack.com | Meredith Arthur

When I find something that works, I am not shy about it. That’s why I’ve been shouting from the rooftops here on Substack about Sarah Warren and her work bringing Thomas Hanna’s Clinical Somatics to the wider world. For the past month, I’ve spent about an hour each morning doing my clinical somatics practice. I’m only more convinced that this practice can be transformative for beautiful voyager types: overthinkers who tend toward rumination.