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Monkey Mind: Why Your Thoughts Never Stop and What Actually Helps
This episode explores “monkey mind” — the constant mental chatter, racing thoughts, rehearsed conversations, future predictions, and overthinking that can make it hard to ever feel mentally settled. Drawing from lived experience, Buddhist psychology, mindfulness, addiction recovery, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Brian looks at why the mind gets stuck in these loops and how practices like cognitive defusion and meditation can help create more awareness of thoughts without automatically following them.
The discussion connects monkey mind to anxiety, addiction, recovery, identity…
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