#36: Why Mindset Work Fails When You’re Stuck in Rumination

The Truth About Rumination, Emotional Disconnection, and the Lower Mind

If you’ve ever felt like mindset work isn’t helping you move forward or like you’re doing everything right but still feel stuck, then this episode is for you.

Today, I’m reflecting on a recent episode from Dr. K (The Healthy Gamer) and sharing my own lived experience with rumination, overthinking, and emotional disconnection. We explore why chronic overthinking isn’t a thinking problem at all. It’s a feeling avoidance pattern rooted in the lower mind.

What's Discussed:

  • Why talk therapy often fails for ruminators

  • The role of the lower mind in emotional avoidance

  • How yogic psychology and Eastern practices go deeper than mindset shifts

  • What Dr. K’s story of getting fired taught me about healing

  • Why you can’t think your way to wholeness…. you have to feel

  • How procrastination, doubt, and perfectionism are subtle forms of rumination

  • What it means to come back to the self underneath the loop

This is not about “fixing” your mind. It’s about returning to the part of you that never left.

Whether you’ve been stuck in loops of self-doubt, emotional numbness, or mindset work that only scratches the surface, there’s more available to you. And it begins with the willingness to feel.

Subscribe if this resonates. Share this episode with someone who’s tired of talking around the wound. And if you feel called, leave a comment below or DM me:

What hard truth have you uncovered about your own rumination?

Let’s come back home.

Veronica

Veronica is a teacher, guide, and alignment coach supporting nervous system regulation and somatic healing through breath, movement, and presence. Helping women regulate, realign, and return to presence.

Discover the 7 Portals to reclaim presence, heal through the body, and live in truth.

Through her work, Veronica invites others to slow down, reconnect to their inner truth, and remember that healing is not something you chase but something you allow.

https://alignwithveronica.com
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