22: How to Ditch Ruminating Thoughts and Overwhelm
Have you ever found yourself replaying conversations and scenarios over and over again in your head? Whether they have or haven’t happened, or whether they’re maybe going to happen.
When we can't see something, our brain goes and tries to find evidence of what it might look like.
This leads us to ruminating, overthinking, over-analyzing, and attempting to control things.
Ruminating thinking is excessive or repetitive thinking centered on something that's hap...
22: How to Ditch Ruminating Thoughts and Overwhelm
Have you ever found yourself replaying conversations and scenarios over and over again in your head? Whether they have or haven’t happened, or whether they’re maybe going to happen.
When we can't see something, our brain goes and tries to find evidence of what it might look like.
This leads us to ruminating, overthinking, over-analyzing, and attempting to control things.
Ruminating thinking is excessive or repetitive thinking centered on something that's happened in the past or something that hasn't yet happened.
As you may know, that sort of thinking really triggers a multitude of other behaviors that do not serve us.
In this episode we are going to be diving into what ruminating thinking really is, how to recognize it, and how we can ditch it for good!
Listen in as we talk about:
01:57 Amy shares how ditching ruminating thinking altogether has helped her this past year to just let go and do more things she actually wants to do.
03:08 Jess talks about how the pandemic has really forced us to change our way of thinking
05:05 Amy shares how ruminating thinking has been present in her life, and the coping behaviors that don’t work long term
10:32 Jess shares how ruminating thinking showed up in her life and the resulting patterns that became disruptive to her well being
16:00 The importance of talking to our children about ruminating thinking
19:00 How prioritizing mental wellness and speaking up about it plays a major role in minimizing ruminating thinking
21:58 How noticing what's happening in and around your body helps you to understand when you are ruminating
30:00 Jess and Amy talk about the important role that your nervous system, nutrition, and stress levels play in eliminating ruminating thinking
Resources mentioned:
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