Dear Anxiety

Dear Anxiety is a deck of cards I've been working on for the past two years. It's my first worldwide product, the scariest and the most joyful one so far.

During my seven years of working in mental health across different countries, cultures and settings, I was always curious to understand how the emotion of anxiety is experienced elsewhere. Not only for the sake of my profession, but also for the sake of my own anxiety, which has followed me since a very young age. By trying to understand others, I strongly believed it helped me also understand myself, or at least try.

Whenever we google anxiety we are always left with an empty feeling due to the very clinical resources. The first questions people I worked with would ask me were: "Did you ever feel like you are losing it?" or "Do you ever feel a lump in the throat?" And frankly, those were the same questions I asked my therapist and friends when the mind saw no way out. That's only because as humans we crave to know that others are facing what we are, and we aren't doing this alone.

Dear Anxiety is authored and designed from real-life experience, drawn from my work journey and my own.

In the cards you meet the anxious thoughts, body reactions, and techniques for how to cope with it. Perhaps it won't have the power to heal, but it will definitely help befriending our anxiety.