Something I’ve been guilty of throughout my life is the unconscious practice of catastrophizing. You might be familiar with it. It’s that chain reaction of imagining one thing going wrong, then the next, and another, and before you know it, it’s resulted in a disaster you’ll never recover from.
The truth is it doesn’t take objectively bad or dramatic things to happen for catastrophizing thoughts to show up. In fact, you might notice yourself going down this rabbit hole when you’re in the middle of enjoying yourself. All of a sudden, something simple becomes catastrophic in your mind and you’ve robbed yourself of the joy of the present moment.
Listen in this week to discover how to stop catastrophizing. You’ll hear why it’s so easy for our brains to default to this place once we’ve developed the habit, the quick checklist I go through when I notice myself catastrophizing, and my top tips for managing a mind that loves to catastrophize.
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What You Will Discover:
- What the practice of catastrophizing means.
- How catastrophizing becomes a habit.
- My checklist that I go through when I notice I’m catastrophizing.
- How to wind back the habit of catastrophizing once it begins.
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