Trapped in Thought: Breaking Free from Overthinking and Inner Chaos

If your brain feels like a browser with 107 tabs open—10 frozen and mystery music blaring—this episode is your exit ramp. Overthinking isn’t a personality quirk; it’s a survival response. It’s your nervous system chasing safety through certainty, perfection, and control. The problem? You can’t think your way into peace.

In this conversation, we unpack:

• How overthinking becomes a subtle form of self-abandonment
• The roots: trauma, perfectionism, people-pleasing, and control
• The real cost: time, presence, sleep, creativity, confidence, connection
• Why peace is body-first, brain-second
• Three tools to interrupt the spiral and come home to yourself:
  1. Name Your Pattern (Future-Tripping, Rehasher, Perfectionist Planner, etc.)
  2. Interrupt the Loop (ask “Helpful or spiral?” + 5-4-3-2-1 grounding)
  3. Body Before Brain (feel > fix; needs over narratives)

I share an Ironman story (mile 85, headwinds, intrusive doubt, banana at the finish) that proves this: your body knows the way when your mind is loud.

Listen, breathe, and practice one small return to yourself at a time.

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