For years, I thought my overthinking was "just the way I was"—until a 90-second rule changed everything. (My book about it is free for the last time today)
I used to believe overthinking was a permanent personality trait, not something fixable.
I was wrong.
It turns out it's a measurable neural pattern that can be rewired. Learning this was the turning point of my life. Neuroscience shows that the neurochemical wave of any feeling—anxiety, dread, that heaviness in your chest—lasts about 90 seconds in the body. After that, you're re-triggering it yourself.
This single insight changed how I relate to my own mind. So I wrote a book to walk others through the same shift. The book is called Quiet the Loop, and it’s the first in my Shift Series.
Here are 3 things from the book that genuinely helped me (and might help you too):
- **The One Move That Stops a Spiral:** A simple naming technique that literally "hits the brakes" on your brain’s threat response, as proven by a 2007 UCLA fMRI study.
- **Your Hidden Triggers:** The book helps you identify four specific categories of triggers that set off a spiral before you even know it’s happening. Once you can see them, you can step around them.
- **You can literally retrain your brain:** A 2023 study proved the neural patterns of overthinking can change. You are not stuck.
Today is the last day my book is free on Amazon.
My hope is that it can do for someone else what learning all of this did for me. I'll post the link in the first comment.