Help! My Brain Won’t Shut Up—Try This Before You Burn Out

CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

🎧 Podcast Description

Is Your Brain on Overdrive? Here's How to Tell If You're Thinking Too Much—Or Thinking Well

We’ve all been there—replaying conversations, worrying about the future, spiraling in a loop of mental noise. But is that really helping you—or just stressing you out?

In this bite-sized episode, Dr. Caroline Leaf breaks down the powerful difference between overthinking and deep thinking, and why understanding the two could change your mental health game. You’ll learn how to stop spiraling, quiet the chaos in your mind, and train your brain to think in a way that actually moves you forward—not keeps you stuck.

🧠 Key Highlights

The neuroscience of why we overthink—and how to stop it in 63 seconds
How to spot when you’ve crossed the line from reflecting to ruminating
3 simple ways to shift from anxious thinking to deliberate, deep thinking
Breathing and journaling techniques that calm your nervous system
Why movement, curiosity, and questioning are your superpowers for mental peace

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Dr. Leaf show.
0:13.7	Today we're talking about something that I know I battle with and I know everyone battles with,
0:17.9	and that is overthinking.
0:20.2	We've all been stuck there.
0:21.6	I'm going to talk about overthinking versus deep thinking
0:25.1	and how you can catch the overthinking and turn it into deep thinking.
0:29.6	This is chapter four from my new book coming out on the 5th of August called Help in a Hurry.
0:36.7	You catch yourself overthinking. You actually can't move
0:39.4	forward. You get stuck. It's chaotic. It's disruptive. It creates anxiety in you. It doesn't feel
0:45.5	like a solution. You feel like you're on a hamster wheel going round and round and round and round and
0:48.8	and drive you around the bend instead of actually moving forward and going into deep thinking, which gives you
0:55.7	a solution. Let's talk about the signals. Let's talk about how to find them. Let's talk about what we
1:00.3	can do about them. But just before, I want to just remind you that this is on pre-order the book.
1:04.6	So if you go to help in a hurrybook.com, don't you love this cover? I just am so excited about this
1:10.7	cover. So help in a hurrybook.com and Help and don't you love this cover? I just am so excited about this cover.
1:11.2	So help and a hurry book.com and pre-order you get all kinds of pre-order bonuses like a free
1:17.6	workbook, early access to some of the chapters, the free webinar, an amazing seminar.
1:22.5	The subtitle is simple tips for finding peace when you overwhelmed, anxious or stressed.
1:28.3	That is something people ask me all the time.
1:31.0	How can I feel peace in the midst of chaos?
1:33.4	And that is one of my goals in bringing you this book, is to help you find peace in the
1:37.0	midst of chaos.
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