The Anxy team and I have been hard at work for almost a year; we’ve been raising money (thank you to all our Kickstarter backers) putting together newsletters, writing, editing, designing and finally we have a beautiful, 144 page magazine for you! It’s packed with personal stories, candid interviews, stunning photography, poems, and more. Check […]
********UPDATE******** The Kickstarter for Anxy Magazine is live!! Please take a look, see what we’re all about, contribute if you can, and share the campaign with your family and friends. We’ve worked so hard on this because we really believe this is a project that can make a difference in the world. Video embedded below: Anxy […]
Originally posted on Longreads: My alcohol story seems like a non-story: I grew up in a home of teetotalers. We did not imbibe alcohol, nor did we discuss it. My mom’s parents are Southern Baptists, so her upbringing was the same. Alcohol made my dad sick, so he avoided it. I was a nerd in…
As the year anniversary of Williams’ death approaches, we are no closer to having real conversations about mental health. I hope we can join together in support of each other and in defiance of the stigma around mental illness. Initially posted on The Bold Italic Robin Williams’s death has instigated numerous conversations around sobriety, but the […]
“What’s that clicking I hear in the background?” a woman says into the phone. “You’re playing with the clip? Do you have the gun right with you there, too? Okay … could we agree to not use it while we’re on the phone; that would make me feel comfortable. Can we agree to that?”