What's up, guys? Welcome back to you, five-minute fatherhood. I want to talk about how do you get out of your own mental loops. A lot of times as fathers, mothers struggle with this. We all struggle with this. We get stuck in these loops in our head and we're like, I keep thinking about the same thing. I keep reliving this

moment or I keep worrying about this thing. And so I think that it's really important to have a

practical way to deal with that because oftentimes if you just start ignoring those, particularly

when they regard your family, like this happens a lot with family, where you're thinking about

one of your kids, you're thinking about your relationship with your spouse or in, you know, in multi-generational families with your parents or grandparents or

children or grandchildren. And it's really important to really give yourself some time to work through that.

And I, for me, the most important thing to do when you're stuck in a mental loop is you have to write.

You have to journal.

You have to assign yourself a block of time, even 30 minutes, and just sit there.

And you might think to yourself, well, I've already thought about this a ton.

I've been thinking about this nonstop for a week.

I don't need to write about it.

That is a, you know, that kind of thinking that

stops people from writing, I think is really part of the problem because usually when you're

just thinking about an issue, you're just sort of skimming the surface and writing plunges you

into the depths. And that's where you need to go. That's why this loop exists. It's trying to get

you to think about it more deeply, not more frequently.

And so in order to stop the loops, you've got to spend some time writing. And so a lot of times

what I'll do with my friends or people that I'm discipling or people in my family is if when

they're stuck in mental loops, I'm just like, okay, I'm going to give you an assignment. I need you

to write. Unedited, stream of consciousness,

without judging, anything you're writing, just write down whatever's coming to mind and go,

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