When you are overthinking and can’t go anywhere
If you are stuck in a cycle of overthinking and can’t get away, there are a few techniques that you can do right where you are that can help center your mind.
What to do when you are overthinking
Whether overthinking is a daily occurrence to you or only happens on occasion, knowing how to handle it so it doesn’t overtake any more of your life than it already has is key.
The downsides of overthinking
Overthinkers are deep thinkers, looking beyond the surface to work on truly understanding the world around us. There can be upsides to the traits of overthinkers, but the hold they have on our daily lives can inhibit us. Coming to terms with being an overthinker and the impact it has on your life can be …
The upsides of overthinking
Seeing the upside of overthinking is not meant to make light of the everyday stress of being an overthinker. It can feel as though your life is controlled by the thoughts in your head, and making even the small task feel like a burden. But there are aspects of overthinking that are beneficial, the goal …
Ask yourself “will I regret not doing this?”
Our lives are filled with moments where we are asked to make a decision. Some are small, such as deciding if we should order coffee with our breakfast. Others are bigger, such as deciding if we should accept a new job offer or putting in an offer on a house. Just because every decision does …
Why you should buy yourself flowers
It is easy to equate flowers as an item you buy for someone else. Something you give others at the end of a performance, as an act of romance, as a gesture of congratulations, or when we just want to give them something beautiful to make them smile. But you deserve to bring beauty into …
The first steps towards doing the thing you think you cannot do
Each of us has things in our life that we want to do but we have convinced ourselves we cannot do. Maybe it’s due to fear of trying something new or fear of failing. Possibly it’s because you think you wouldn’t be any good at it so it’s not worth the effort. Or maybe because …
Don’t overthink gift giving
Don’t overthink trying to find something to buy someone, celebrations are not about things they are about memories.
Write down what is stopping you from starting
There are lots of reasons why you may be putting off doing something. We may choose not to look into what those reasons are and would rather put off doing what we should do. It can be easier to do what we enjoy or what is familiar to us. But there are things we may …
Newvember: Make November a time to try something new
Try something new this November, make it a Newvember. Make this the time when you finally do something you’ve wanted to do but never got around to or felt you couldn’t justify. Don’t worry about making it something deeply meaningful or an extreme adventure, just make it something new. Have this be the time you …