Hey, do you think of yourself as an all or nothing thinker? Or perhaps you find yourself,

imagine the worst case scenarios. You're afraid that things won't work out. And if they don't,

your brain is already jumping 15 conclusions in the future about what that all means.

Meanwhile, people wonder, why are you so stressed or what's making

you anxious? And you're actually caught in a cycle of all or nothing thinking and catastrophizing.

It's this type of thinking when we blow things out of proportion, we expect the worst. We're waiting

for the other shoe to drop. And it's a byproduct of an all or nothing thinking brain.

Now, I thought that that's just how I was going to think, because that's how I'm wired.

And I have good news. If you are wired like me in the all or nothing world, there can be a healthy

expression of that personality, of how you think, and you don't have to get stuck in the anxiety.

And the pattern that catastrophizing does, it scoops us up and spins us around.

And we're always afraid that the things aren't going to go well, that it's either going to be

perfect or disastrous.

I want to teach you today that you don't have to see the extremes in everything, that

there's a way to find the neutral ground.

And when your brain does offer you patterns of catastrophizing, there are some simple ways.

I'm going to give you simple tools today to neutralize the catastrophizing, to get out of the

all-or-nothing thinking, what i like to call the black and white

thinking we're going to get into the land of gray together y'all and so this episode is for you

no longer do you have to feel that pressure that if this doesn't work out everything will fall

apart that living on edge and thinking gosh gosh, if like everything will fall apart

at any moment, or if this doesn't happen, they're going to think this, this, this, this.

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