How to Stop Ruminating

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Listen to my Morning Monologue: I’m sharing my take on pressing issues, enlightening research on human behavior, answering questions I get by email, and my favorite, most instructive interactions with callers. Everything you’ll hear is designed to help you become a better spouse, parent, family member, co-worker, friend, and human being. It’s the free therapy you need! Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to my morning monologue.
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0:15.6	Remember, you can hear my radio program daily on Sirius XM Triumph and connect with me 24-7 at Dr.lorah.com.
0:25.1	Got an interesting letter, and by the way, to send me letters, it's Dr. Laura at
0:30.1	dr. Laura.com. The other day I talked about how I went from an evolution in my 78 years from being kind of tough
0:40.5	on myself if I couldn't do something immediately or do it great or, you know, and I sort of got
0:47.7	that for my dad, evolving into not being able to figure something out or messing it up,
0:57.0	and now having a different reaction.
0:59.4	So this was the morphing over a lifetime that I hoped would inspire others.
1:05.3	Clearly it did. I got enough mail on it to make me happy that it did have a good impact.
1:12.7	I evolved into a two-point reaction. One was, oh, good. Now, I got the way to do it wrong
1:20.4	out of the way. Now I can do it right. The second one was, well, this is wrong or a failure or a mistake, however you wish to make it.
1:40.0	And is there some way I can still use it?
1:47.0	Does it really have to be a tosser? Or is there some way I can still use it? Does it really have to be a tosser? Or is there some way I can use it when I teach my UV resin jewelry class at
1:52.0	Crafters Library?
1:54.0	One of the things I deal with in the class is, you know, because they're beginners and they screw up.
2:00.0	They don't think things in advance because they don't have experience.
2:02.8	It's just a normal learning process.
2:05.2	So mistakes are happening all over the room.
2:08.2	And I was clear with them that some mistakes, yeah, you just throw it away, learn from it
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