#36: Why Mindset Work Fails When You’re Stuck in Rumination
The Truth About Rumination, Emotional Disconnection, and the Lower Mind
If you’ve ever felt like mindset work isn’t helping you move forward or like you’re doing everything right but still feel stuck, then this episode is for you.
Today, I’m reflecting on a recent episode from Dr. K (The Healthy Gamer) and sharing my own lived experience with rumination, overthinking, and emotional disconnection. We explore why chronic overthinking isn’t a thinking problem at all. It’s a feeling avoidance pattern rooted in the lower mind.
What's Discussed:
Why talk therapy often fails for ruminators
The role of the lower mind in emotional avoidance
How yogic psychology and Eastern practices go deeper than mindset shifts
What Dr. K’s story of getting fired taught me about healing
Why you can’t think your way to wholeness…. you have to feel
How procrastination, doubt, and perfectionism are subtle forms of rumination
What it means to come back to the self underneath the loop
This is not about “fixing” your mind. It’s about returning to the part of you that never left.
Whether you’ve been stuck in loops of self-doubt, emotional numbness, or mindset work that only scratches the surface, there’s more available to you. And it begins with the willingness to feel.
Subscribe if this resonates. Share this episode with someone who’s tired of talking around the wound. And if you feel called, leave a comment below or DM me:
“What hard truth have you uncovered about your own rumination?”
Let’s come back home.
