the tara bixby podcast 73. Nancy Colier: Can't Stop Thinking
Nancy Colier joins us on the show to teach you how to let go of anxiety and free yourself from obsessive rumination. Nancy is a psychotherapist, interfaith minister, author, public speaker, mindfulness teacher, and relationship coach. She’s a longtime student of Eastern spirituality and mindfulness practices form the ground of her work.
She is the author of the recent, Can't Stop Thinking, The Power of Off: The Mindful Way to Stay Sane in a Virtual World, Inviting a Monkey to Tea: Befriending Your Mind and Discovering Lasting Contentment, and other books. Nancy is a national speaker on wellbeing and mindfulness, and technology-related topics including parenting, addiction, and work-life balance. She is also a regular blogger for Psychology Today and Huffington Post.
Today we chat about...
- How Nancy's history of chronic rumination inspired her to write Can’t Stop Thinking
- What it looks like to become addicted to your thoughts
- How Nancy categorizes addictive thinking
- What Nancy thinks we are really afraid of
- What calms down our compulsive need to think
- The importance of watching your thoughts and stepping away
- How to find freedom and peace from your thoughts
- What keeps us hooked to our thoughts
- Nancy’s thoughts on toxic positivity and what you should do instead
- What rumination looks like and how to break free from your ruminating thoughts
- My struggle with rehearsing hard conversations in my head and the impact it had on my mood
- What to do when you’re caught in what-if statements
- How to tackle worrisome thoughts that pop up at night
- The ability to choose whether you think about a thought
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