🧠✨ Cool technique for overthinkers from a healed overthinker

Hey guys! 🤍 I was journaling this morning and I had this realisation I wanna share with you, I can actually say that I'm no longer an overthinker. And that's a big deal for me… if I could show this version of me to my 5-years-younger self, she’d be extremely proud, because I’m not trapped in my own head anymore.

Because back then? Imagine overthinking like:

spending 15 minutes writing a 2-line message to my boss (😭)
replaying conversations on loop: “did they like me… did I sound weird… why did I say that”
trying to choose one direction, opening 17 tabs, and ending up more stuck
turning small decisions (post / boundary / text) into this whole dramatic “thing”

What's interesting is that “being more confident.” or "just doing the thing" never really helped me. I first had to lower the resistance I had towards that action.... and I found this wonderful technique: ✨automatic writing, aka. 🧠 brain dump

because overthinking is often our brain trying to logic its way out of a feeling.Brain dump works because it gets the real sentence out — and the loop finally quiets.

If that caught your attention, I really encourage you to try this today!! It does wonders!

This is how: set up your timer for five minutes, 📝 Write without stopping (no deleting, no rereading)...Start with: “What I’m not admitting is…”When time’s up: underline one line that stings. That’s usually the truth.

P.S.: I’m curious! where do you see your overthinking right now? 🤍

A) decisions take forever

B) replaying convos / “do they like me?”

C) perfectionism / “not ready yet”

D) fear of the wrong choice

E) other

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