Rumination: When Your Mind Starts Keeping Score Monday's worries are usually about what's ahead. By the middle of the week, rumination often shifts toward measuring ourselves. We start asking questions like: Am I doing enough? Why am I so tired already? How is it only...
Why do feelings of overthinking seem to intensify after the weekend? There is a peculiar moment that often arrives late Sunday evening or early Monday morning. The weekend, with its slower pace and temporary freedom from obligations, begins to fade. In its place comes a...
Let me tell you about two ladders. The first ladder has one rung. Just one. Take that single step, and you’re done — you’re at the top. Fixed. Changed. Finished. That’s the ladder everybody wants. Of course it is. It’s fast. It’s simple. One step....
It’s 2:47 a.m. You’ve replayed the conversation eleven times. You’ve drafted three versions of the text you’re not going to send. You’ve imagined every possible outcome of tomorrow’s meeting, including the one where the building catches fire and you have to use the stairs. You...