Hi! I'm Anna Borges, a writer, editor, and mental health advocate and I’m currently senior health editor for SELF. Previously, I was a senior editor for BuzzFeed's lifestyle and wellness brand Goodful, a senior staff writer for BuzzFeed Health, the social media editor for Women’s Health, and the LGBTQ Editor for Her Campus National. (I’m also a Virgo sun, Aquarius moon, Libra rising, Slytherin, INFJ, and Enneagram Personality Type 4.)

I have a particular passion for writing about mental, emotional, and sexual health, and guiding people in their journey of self-love, self-improvement, and self-discovery. I'm well-versed in writing expert-backed service journalism, as well as personal and humorous takes on mental health topics. I studied journalism and creative writing at Northwestern University where I was also a trained sexual health and assault peer educator, encouraging dialogue on campus about sexual health, sexuality, and sexual assault. An Oregon native, I now live in Brooklyn with my two cats that I can never resist mentioning because they’re perfect.

I'm writing a book called The More or Less Definitive Guide to Self-Care, an exhaustive collection of self-care tips, big and little, preventative and curative, concrete and abstract. It will release from The Experiment on November 1, 2019 and is available for preorder.

work

• Self-Care: An A To Z Guide

• Here's What No One Tells You About Having Both Depression And Anxiety

• I Am Not Always Very Attached To Being Alive

• On Choosing to Share Your Abortion Story Online—or Not

• Here's What People Actually Do When They Masturbate

• Everything You Could Possibly Want To Know About Therapy

• No Joke, These Sex Toys Got Me Through The Year

• 37 Holiday Self-Care Tips For Anyone Who Is Kind Of Not OK RN

• Here's How To Use A Bullet Journal For Better Mental Health

• 37 Confessions About Sex That Will Make You Feel Less Alone

• 9 Masturbation Tips That Are Basically Self-Care

• Is Your Period Too Heavy? We've Got Answers

• Everyone Has A Tarot Card That Matches Their Personality — Here's Yours

• 19 Therapy Stories That'll Make You Say, "Dang, That's So True"

• 17 Steps For Recognizing and Responding To Warning Signs Of Suicide

  For more, check out my work on BuzzFeed.

Contact

If you’re contacting me with a pitch, please use my professional email: anna_borges@condenast.com.