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Tiny Leaps, Big Changes

421 - Why We Spiral Out Of Control

Tiny Leaps, Big Changes

Gregg Clunis

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.3920 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we take a look at why we spiral out of control. 

You'll Hear:

  • What Catastrophizing means
  • Why we all spiral out of control
  • How to reign in your negative imagination

Quote:

"This is a habit of mine. When faced with the unknown, I expect the worst. And I can make mountains—no, volcanoes—out of molehills. Turns out, there’s a name for this: catastrophizing. This has become my new favorite word because it means I’m not the only one who does this. It also means I am likely not crazy." 

Resources:

Tiny Leaps, Big Changes Website

4 things to remember the next time you’re spiraling

What is Catastrophizing? - Cognitive Distortions

What is Catastrophic Thinking? (And How to Stop)


Transcript

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0:00.0

In this is tiny leaps,

0:01.1

we talk about why we spiral out of control.

0:05.0

Get excited because this is tiny leaps.

0:10.0

Big Change. Big Change.

0:22.0

Welcome to another episode of Tiny Leaps. Big changes where I share simple strategies you can use to

0:26.7

get more out of your life. My name is Greg Klunis and in this episode we are looking at why it is that we spiral out of control.

0:37.6

Now I don't know about you.

0:39.1

This is something I personally do.

0:40.9

I struggle with quite a lot, a bit definitely when things seem to be

0:46.0

screwing up or when things seem to be going wrong I just keep going and going deeper and deeper into that feeling and it's really not a good

0:56.4

feeling but the worst part as if you if you struggle with this you know it's hard to get yourself back out.

1:04.2

You just keep digging yourself deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper.

1:08.1

And so in this episode, I wanted to look at that phenomenon to begin with.

1:12.2

Why is it that we spiral out of control?

1:14.4

Why is it that this is something that we all seem to struggle with?

1:19.8

And how can we start to, now knowing by the end of this episode, the cause of it, how can we start

1:27.5

to improve on that?

1:31.6

So throughout this episode we are going to be looking at resources from three

1:37.8

different platforms so we've got an article from Head Space that's titled Four Things to Remember the Next Time You're

1:44.9

Spiraling. We have an article from Psychology Today that is titled What Is Catastrophizing Cognitive Distizing cognitive distortions which we'll talk about in a second

1:56.2

and then we have an article from talk space dot com titled what is catastrophic thinking and how to stop.

2:05.0

So we are going to be looking at resources from each of these

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