OVERTHINKERS ANONYMOUS
This podcast is for any and everyone who struggles with overthinking or “getting out of their own head” . It is a no judgement, anonymous, and open platform that we can collectively discuss what is causing us inner turmoil. It will also be a space of encouragement and positive affirmation that you can use to propel your life forward.
OVERTHINKERS ANONYMOUS
The Courage to Mend: Embracing Self-Healing and Navigating Emotional Recovery
Have you ever felt the weight of self-doubt pressing on your shoulders, or found yourself caught in the tangle of overthinking? I'm Pam Gonsolin, and through a very personal conversation, I'll share my own struggles with these invisible burdens and how I've started the journey toward healing. No guests, just raw reflection and the promise of a guide through the pain toward reclaiming our inner peace. We all have moments when we feel lost, but it's in these moments that we can also find our most profound strength and resilience. This episode is a celebration of the courage it takes to begin mending one's spirit and a candid exploration of the beauty that lies in embracing the process, even when the road is rough.
Imagine a space where acknowledging our hurt is not only acceptable but encouraged. That's what this episode provides—a quiet place to sit with our pain, recognize it, and set aside pride in order to move forward. Join me as we discuss the importance of facing our emotions head-on and the transformative effect it can have on our journey to wholeness. It's not always easy to navigate the path to recovery, but together, we'll share the reaffirming message that you are meant to emerge whole, with a genuine, internal smile that radiates true well-being. Subscribe to Overthinkers Anonymous, and let's support each other in growth and recovery, week by week.
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I've been up and down for so long. Crazy how right can become so wrong. The thoughts in my head Keep me on a constant rollercoaster and I just want some peace. Tonight Feels like my heart done, left me stranded, just floating away on a melody, leaving me to all my tears. I just hope somebody here Slendercise to come and rescue me, cause I've been through some pain and the only way to get past the pain are the prayers that pray to keep my sanity. Tell me, have you ever been caught up in your mind, so unaware of time, cause you can't stop thinking, oh, and it feels like You're breaking down inside. You wanna let it ride, ride, but you can't, cause you're overthinking it all. Am I really as good as I think I am, or am I stunting in my mind like it's stunting on the ground? Father, please tell me again. Tell me again, cause your voice is so confident On the days when I'm thinking with it, even after you said that I win. Told me walk bold, cause you're queen and I'm loving how you dream and your representation. No, you ain't perfect, but baby, you gon' make it. Yeah, yeah, baby girl, you gon' make it. So stop overthinking.
Speaker 1:Welcome to the Overthinkers Anonymous podcast and I'm your host, pam Gonsolin, I'm so glad that you're joining me here today. I want you to share this podcast and hit the subscribe link to become a subscriber. Once you're a subscriber, you will never miss out on important content that is going to be shared with my listeners. Well, on last week, when we left off, we came to the resolve that it was time for the healing to begin. Remember that, let the healing begin. Well, are you ready to do the work? Healing takes work. It takes effort, but the work and the effort is so worth it. It's so rewarding. I promise you the rewards of your work and your effort that you put forth to usher healing into your life is so rewarding. Sometimes you can't see that on this side, but when you get to the other side of healing, you'll be able to see that it was all worth it. It was all worth it Because you know what it's time for you to feel better. It's time for you to feel good, to feel good about yourself and just to feel good. It's time to feel better. All of that will come with some work. That will come with healing.
Speaker 1:Healing is a beautiful thing and we should all desire to live lives that reflect wholeness and healing. Because it's a beautiful thing when you can walk around with a smile on your face and the smile is not just on the outside but it's coming from the inside too. That's a beautiful thing, that's a remarkable thing. So many times we're walking around with a smile, but on the inside we're frowning, the inside we're crying. But when you can walk around with a smile on your face, both inside and outside, that is beautiful, that is remarkable, because when you can smile on the inside, that means you're feeling good. You're feeling good. When you feel good, you look good, you act better, you interact better because you're feeling good. That's where we want to go, that's where we want to get to a place of feeling good, feeling better.
Speaker 1:Healing makes you feel whole. Healing makes you feel whole. Healing makes you feel complete. That's what healing does for you. Healing renews your sense of self and purpose. That's what healing does for you.
Speaker 1:In healing guess what? You find you again. You find yourself again in healing, with all the pain, with all the disappointment, with all the hurt that you were going through. You might have lost you. Some of us have lost ourselves. We've become the pain. We've become the hurt. We've become the violation. We've become the disappointment. We've lost ourselves. But when we can walk in healing, we can find ourselves again, find yourself again.
Speaker 1:It's time for you to find yourself again. You're not just the hurt that you suffered, you're not just the violation that you went through. You're not just the disappointment that you suffered. You're not just a violation that you went through. You're not just a disappointment that you experienced. That's not who you are. That's simply what you've been through. It doesn't define who you are. It's simply what you've been through and what your life experience is. But who you are is a summation of all of your life experiences. Who you are is your character, your attitudes. That's who you are. That's who you are. That's who you are.
Speaker 1:And so when healing takes place, you can renew your sense of self and purpose. You can find purpose again. You know what purpose is. Purpose is your sense of being. Purpose is why you were created. Purpose is why you are here, why you are alive. That's purpose. That's purpose. And when you have purpose, you can keep going. When you have purpose, you can keep moving, no matter what comes your way. If you go through the healing process and you begin to experience healing and you have a renewed sense of self and purpose. When hurt comes again, you can move past it easier and quicker. It won't affect you as great, because your life has purpose. Now your life has purpose. Now your life has meaning. Now your life has meaning. And because your life has meaning, you can move past any hurt Mm-hmm, any hurt. So our next step any hurt. So our next step.
Speaker 1:Well, the first step that we took was deciding that you were ready for the healing to take place in your life. That was the first step, and if you're here this week, that means that you came to that resolve and you took the first step. So I'm glad that you're here this week. That means that you came to that resolve and you took the first step. So I'm glad that you're here. Give yourself a hand clap. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you decided to keep going. I'm glad you decided that it was time for healing to begin. I'm so glad you did. But now it's time to take the next step. Remember, we're tackling the issue of overthinking, but in order to do that, we've got to topple the invisible system that's keeping it in place. There's an invisible system. In other words, you can't see it with your natural eye, but there's an invisible system that's keeping you locked into that overthinking paradigm, and so we've got to tackle that. We've got to topple that system. One of the ways to topple it is healing, healing. So our next step now In our healing journey, since we've decided that it's time for the healing To take place, your next step today Is to acknowledge Acknowledgement, acknowledgement, acknowledgement, acknowledgement, acknowledge the pain, acknowledge the trauma that you've suffered.
Speaker 1:It happened, it's a part of your life. You can't go back now and change it Because it already happened, but a lot of times we walk around in denial, acting like it never happened. We walk around and deny that it took place. But your next step and it's a big one is acknowledgement, acknowledging that it happened. It happened.
Speaker 1:It's okay to admit that you're hurt. It's okay to admit that you were disappointed. It's okay to admit that you were disillusioned and broken. It's okay, it truly is okay. It's okay to admit that. It's okay to say it. It's okay to say you hurt me or I was hurt. I was hurt when you did such and such thing, you hurt me when you said such and such or when you did this, and that it's okay to say it. It's okay to say it. And listen.
Speaker 1:Nobody can tell you what should or should not have hurt you. That should not have hurt you. Nobody can tell you that your feelings are invalid Well, you shouldn't have been hurt by that. Because such and such, well, that shouldn't have hurt you, because I didn't mean that. That's not how I meant it to be, so you shouldn't be hurt by that. But I am.
Speaker 1:And just because you didn't mean it to hurt me doesn't mean that it didn't. And those are my feelings, not yours. And we all have a right to our feelings. We all have a right to our feelings. Everybody's not going to feel the same way, but we all have a right to our own individual feelings. My feelings about a situation may be different from yours, why? Because we are individuals. We're not the same. God didn't create us the same. He created each of us individually. He created each of us differently, individually. He created each of us differently. So just because my feelings aren't yours doesn't mean that they're not valid. They're valid, they're very valid because I felt them and so it's okay to say it. It's okay to say it. It's okay to say you hurt me, I was hurt by. It's okay to even admit it to yourself. You know they hurt me when they did such and such. You know I was hurt when this happened. That really hurt me, that really broke me. You know I was hurt when this happened. That really hurt me, that really broke me. That really made me feel bad.
Speaker 1:Acknowledgement, acknowledgement. It's time to stop sweeping your hurt, your pain, your trauma under the rug like it never happened. It's time to stop sweeping it away. I know it was easier to ignore it. It's easier to pretend like you know you are okay, but it's time to pull the covers back and look inside. It's time to start peeling back the layers and taking a look inside to see what's been hidden, because it's the things that's been hidden that's been hindering us. It's the things that's been hidden that's been stopping us, blocking our progress. So it's time to just peel back. Peel back the corners, peel back the covers and to take a peep inside. It's time to stop sweeping it under the rug and to acknowledge that it's there. It's there and it's not going to go anywhere until you deal with it. It's not going anywhere until you deal with it. So you may as well deal with it. You may as well acknowledge that it's there? By you pretending that it's not there, by you walking in denial, by you refusing to deny that it's there, does that stop it from hurting? You refusing to deny that it's there? Does that stop it from hurting? Does that stop it from affecting your life? No, that doesn't work. It doesn't because it doesn't stop it. Even though you don't acknowledge it, it's still there and it's still affecting you. So why not acknowledge it as a first step towards healing it? And when healing can take place, it can be removed, it can go.
Speaker 1:Wow, I know this is some deep stuff, but we've got to get into these types of things Because a lot of this goes unsaid in our lives. A lot of it goes unsaid in our lives. A lot of it goes unsaid and we walk around carrying it even though it's unsaid. And it's my endeavor with this podcast to help somebody to bring about a change in somebody's life, to help facilitate healing in somebody's life wholeness. So we've got to lay the groundwork, because there's some things that I want to do with this podcast, but this is the foundation that we're laying now. This first season is the foundation. We can't build on top of brokenness. We can't build on that, but we can build once we're healed, we can advance once we're healed. And so we're pulling back the covers, peering inside.
Speaker 1:This week, I want you to look inside and to acknowledge that the pain is there. That's what I want you to do this week. That's what I want you to do this week, because that's the only way that you're going to begin to deal with it and that you'll be healed, as if you acknowledge it. I want you to acknowledge that the pain is there, the hurt is there, and then we're going to deal with it. We're going to deal with it. So I want you to sit with that on this week.
Speaker 1:Remember I told you last week sit with it means reflect, ponder. It means find yourself a quiet place that you can sit and reflect and acknowledge to yourself that you have been hurt. Acknowledge to yourself first, before you try and acknowledge it and make anybody else know it. Acknowledge it to yourself that you have been hurt. Put pride to the side, step out of denial and into acknowledgement, because sometimes pride will keep us from admitting that we've been hurt. But put pride to the side, step out of denial and into acknowledgement so that you can begin to move forward. But moving forward. I'm Pam Gonsolin and you've been tuned in to Overthinkers Anonymous podcast. Invite your friends, invite your family, hit the subscribe button and join me back here next week as we go even deeper with the next step on our healing and wholeness journey. Bye-bye.