How To Manage Travel Anxiety, According To Someone Who Lives With

My anxiety starts a few days before I take a trip, and it has nothing to do with being afraid the plane is going to crash. Because I actually do like to travel, there are things I do to help manage my travel anxiety. While going on a trip induces excitement in some people, even the idea of traveling creates, for me, a sense of impending doom, and it makes me feel super ungrounded. I have always done a fair amount of traveling for work, and I know I am privileged to be able to go places like Turkey, France, or Tahiti on someone else's dime.I'm grateful for these opportunities, and I sometimes beat myself up for not enjoying them as much as my roommate, a fellow travel writer, who is able to jump from one trip to the next with ease. She never seems to get jet lagged. She flies a red eye and goes straight to her day job when she gets off the plane. Me? Travels wrecks me in a way it's taken me years to understand.