Brianna Wiest

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Bio

Brianna Wiest is a news writer at Romper, where she covers stories on maternal and mental health, human interest, politics, pop culture and entertainment. Brianna has written thousands of articles on emotional intelligence, wellness, lifestyle and news. She is a senior contributor at Forbes, a top contributor at Medium, and is regularly published in half a dozen national publications. Brianna is the author of five books, including 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think, and Salt Water: Poems On Healing & Wholeness. She has a B.A. in professional writing and gender studies. When she's not writing, Brianna is traveling, working on renovating her home with her husband, reading, and learning to cook. She lives in Pennsylvania. You can follow her on Instagram at @briannawiest, and learn more about her at briannawiest.com

12 Ways To Cope With Existential Worry

Despite what the current culture of Aspirational Internet Lives would have you believe, most forms of stress, anxiety, and worry aren't only normal, they're healthy. In fact, if we weren't capable of experiencing and feeling these things, we would…

By Brianna Wiest

These Thinking Styles Make You More Anxious

If social anxiety is something that affects your life, you know just how seriously debilitating it can be. Clinically known as social anxiety disorder, or social phobia, it is the fear of being judged or evaluated negatively by people, and often…

By Brianna Wiest

When You Want A Relationship For The Wrong Reasons

Many people desire romantic relationships. I'm not going to say everybody because that's simply untrue, but it has been pitched to us as a sort of end-goal kind of a fairytale scenario: love, in the form of a romantic partner in particular, is…

By Brianna Wiest

Questions To Ask Before You Make A Big Life Change

If we're being completely honest, life is nothing but a series of scary, big changes. (Isn't that what they say? That the only constant in life is change? Yes, yes it is, and that's because it's true.) It's really not a matter of knowing when to…

By Brianna Wiest

Why Intelligent People Prefer To Socialize Less

If you're a relatively intelligent person, two things are likely true: you socialize less than your peers, and you have anxiety about whether or not that's normal and sane and acceptable. As most of us already know, intelligent people tend to be…

By Brianna Wiest

12 Strategies For Looking At A Problem Clearly

Feelings are not facts. A feeling can be valid — as in, something you are definitely experiencing — but feeling that something is true does not necessarily make it true. This is important to understand, because we see the adverse effects of this…

By Brianna Wiest

How To Get Over Your Jealousy Of Others' Successes

Jealousy isn't called an ugly, green-eyed monster for no reason — and the truth is that more often than not, it's one that tends to stay hidden under the bed. Sometimes, the feeling of envy is very intense and you're aware of it, but a lot of the…

By Brianna Wiest

12 Ways To Get Over Your Thought Addiction

Determining whether or not you have an addiction to your thoughts isn't as simple as one may imagine. The reality is that people can become addicted to just about anything. When human beings get to the point of craving something beyond their…

By Brianna Wiest

How To Not Psych Out In Your New Relationship

Here's something beautiful and horrifying and true: the Love of Your Life will not necessarily be the happiest relationship ever. In fact, the more your feelings are deeply involved, the scarier it's going to be. The more worthwhile you find a…

By Brianna Wiest

Read This If You Want To Make Friends As An Adult

Among the endless stream of irrational, secret fears most twentysomething and emerging adults have is: What the hell happened to all of my friends?! It's a weird, tragic paradox: you begin to realize just how wonderful and important it is to have…

By Brianna Wiest