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How To! with Mike Pesca

How To Quiet the Chatter in Your Head

How To! with Mike Pesca

Peach Fish Projects

How To, Education

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Emilia can't stop thinking about a long-ago love affair with Ivan, a man she met in Mexico in her early 20s and dated for several years. Now, a decade later, Emilia is newly married, but thoughts of her time with Ivan pop into her mind daily, a fact she's never shared with her husband. On this episode of How To!, we bring on Ethan Kross, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan and the author of Chatter: The Voice In Our Head, Why It Matters, and How To Harness It. Whether thinking about a past experience or worrying about the present, we all get stuck in negative cycles of thought, and Ethan has the tools to help us form a better relationship with our thoughts. 

If you liked this episode, check out "How To Fall Out of Love."

Do you have a problem you can't get out of your head? Send us a note at howto@slate.com or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show.

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Have you ever thought, ugh, this water is too wet?

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Or this beach is too sandy.

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My name is Christine.

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And my name is Sandy.

0:09.2

And where the host of Beach to Sandy water to wet.

0:11.5

A podcast where we do dramatic readings of the most wild and off the wall reviews on

0:15.3

the internet.

0:16.3

We find the funniest, real reviews about everything from Vegas weddings, matchmaking services

0:21.4

and trader joes, to caves, toddler beds, and spirit Halloween.

0:25.6

You won't believe the things that people think absolutely must be set on the internet.

0:29.2

How else would everyone know that some caves don't have Wi-Fi?

0:32.0

We hear about the good, the bad, and that one time spirit Halloween sent someone a dildo

0:36.1

instead of a Halloween costume.

0:37.8

And believe it or not, we got to the bottom of it.

0:40.5

Join us every Wednesday wherever you listen to your podcast.

0:43.5

Beach to Sandy water to wet is brought to you by the Forever Dog Podcast Network.

0:51.7

I'm John at the Breloch.

0:52.7

I'm Dr. Milligan.

0:53.7

And I'm James the Third.

0:55.7

And where those of Blackwink and Jump in Hollywood, it's a comedic podcast that

0:59.0

reviews films with leading actors of color and analyze them in the context of race and

1:03.4

Hollywood's diversity issues.

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