Worry Medicine: A Companion for Troubled Times | Zine

Worry Medicine: A Companion for Troubled Times, by Nina Montenegro, is a 40 page booklet in color and black and white illustrations.

In the words of Nina, "The deep revolutions needed in our culture; societal reimagining and healing, will ask tremendous amounts of courage, creativity, and energy from each of us in our lifetimes. When stuck in a perpetual state of fear and anxiety, we find that our reserves are low, and we crave stability and sameness, not leaps of faith and transformation. With a preoccupied and exhausted mind there is hardly room for the creative dreaming needed to bring about a more beautiful world or the stamina to do the work of building it."

In this little book, Nina outlines seventeen touchstone practices to observe one's anxiety, collaborate with it, see it as a teacher, and transform it. These pages are about cultivating a crucial skillset for collective preservation in a landscape of intense fear and anxiety. It helped Nina work through her own anxiety through the practice of making it. She hopes it will help to guide you as you navigate your own relationship to anxiety in troubled times.

Details:

• Published by Nina and Sonya Montenegro, The Far Woods.
• Digitally printed in Indiana
• Booklet measures 6.5” w x 8.5” h
• Semi-glossy interior pages with cardstock-weight cover
  

Meet the Makers

Sisters Sonya and Nina Montenegro are the designers and makers of The Far Woods. The things they make reflect their deepest desires about the world. These passionate sisters seek to contribute to a great Culture Shift in which there is a land ethic, reverence for nature, rejection of the dominant throw-away mentality, and direct connection to where our food and the things we use come from.  Many of their artworks serve as educational tools and inspiration for deepening relationship to nature, food, and community.  Their practice crosses disciplines to work toward an ecologically-viable and socially-just future.

Sisters Sonya and Nina acknowledge and honor the Indigenous communities native to the regions in which the live and make their art. They recognize the land now known as Indiana and Kentucky as the unceded homeland of the Miami, Delaware, Potawatomi, Shawnee people, and the Eastern Band of the Cherokee, the Osage Nation, and the Shawnee, respectively.