The OverThinker's Guide to Joy
Simple ways to reduce your stress and find more joy in your everyday life.
Hosted by Certified Life Coach, Jackie de Crinis
Ep #89: Inspiration from the Emmy Awards
The entertainment industry is smack-dab in the middle of award season, and like most people, one of my favorite parts of tuning in is the acceptance speeches. While the Oscars speeches tend to be the most memorable, this year, an Emmy Awards acceptance speech was so brave and brilliant that it inspired this episode. Niecy…
Ep #88: Strategies to Stop Negative Thinking
Whether you realize it or not, your brain has a tendency to focus more on negative experiences than positive ones: negativity bias. But why does this happen, and what can we do about it? Like many things, negativity bias is rooted in our evolutionary history. When everyday life was a fight for survival, it served…
Ep #87: Why New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work and What Does
The New Year is an exciting time when all of us feel like we get to wipe the slate clean and start anew. Something that often goes hand-in-hand with the promise of a new year is the practice of setting resolutions, but I’m offering you a better way to start 2024 on this episode. Maybe…
Ep #86: Hypervigilance: Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop
One lifelong habit overthinkers like us tend to struggle with is being stuck in hypervigilance. Hypervigilance is expressed in a whole host of ways, like list-making. Or it could be an emotional habit, like internalizing how everyone else is acting, even strangers, or when you’ve achieved something, always waiting for the other shoe to drop.…
Ep #85: 5 Ways to Make December Your Best Month
It’s December, which means everybody is busy getting ready for the Holidays, or they’re busy avoiding the festivities. You might think of December as the final push before you can take a deep breath in January. For others, it’s time for a vacation. But for some, the Holidays bring up difficult feelings of melancholy, loneliness,…
Ep #84: Which of These 5 Perfectionists Are You?
As a perfectionist, or a recovering perfectionist, where do you need to learn to allow yourself to lose control? Where are you apologizing for being a perfectionist? Is perfectionism even a problem that needs fixing? We’ve spoken about perfectionism on the show before, but if you’re a recovering perfectionist, the learning never stops. There are…
Ep #83: Are You Overthinking Everything?
Why do we hear criticism so much louder than we hear compliments? Allowing criticism to ride shotgun over compliments is a classic overthinker’s trait. Studies show that women tend to both apologize and ruminate more than men, so it stands to reason that we’d give more airtime to criticism than we do compliments. Taylor Swift…
Ep #82: The Secret to Combating Pain
If you’ve ever experienced chronic pain, occasional pain, or even general aggravation, you’ll know how hopeless it can make us feel. Whether physically or psychologically, we are anything but patient when we’re in pain, and in fact, it usually makes us more angry and we might even try pushing through it with gritted teeth. Physical…
