When You Are Tired of Your Own Thoughts

About this episode

Marilyn Barker discusses the exhaustion caused by persistent thoughts and offers practical tools to create distance from them.

Have you ever felt exhausted not by what is happening around you but by what is happening inside your own head? Those thoughts that just keep running no matter how many times you try to push them away. The ones that follow you through your day, keep you up at night, and leave you worn out in a way that is hard to explain. In this episode Marilyn gets honest about what it feels like to get stuck in a mental loop and why our brains do this in the first place. Because understanding why it happens is the first step to interrupting it. Through two relatable examples and five practical tools Marilyn walks us through how to start creating a little distance between ourselves and the thoughts that will not quit. This episode is not about silencing our minds. It is about learning that we do not have to follow every thought down the rabbit hole. In this episode: Why getting stuck in mental loops is not a character flaw, it is just how our brain works The worry loop, replaying situations we cannot control over and over The self-criticism loop, beating ourselves up for something we cannot change Why fighting our thoughts often makes them stronger How to use the bubble method when the loop…

People in this episode

Host: Marilyn Barker

Topics covered

• mental health
• thought patterns
• self-improvement
• mental loops
• practical tools

Keywords

• mental loops
• self-criticism
• worry loop
• bubble method
• interrupting thoughts

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