Tell that brain to shut the hell up

Or how your brain can be your worst enemy sometimes

I can always tell when my thoughts are spinning out. I struggle to focus on simple tasks (like travelling from A-B), I create worse case scenarios for everything (especially work-related) and I struggle to be in the moment. Yesterday I was invited to speak on a panel, and I was weighed down by Christmas admin, worried about work things I couldn’t control and generally on edge.

The irony is that anyone seeing me speak on this panel would have seen a confident, articulate, funny woman (I know this as they came up afterwards to congratulate me).