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Harvard-trained psychologist I help chronic overthinkers quiet the mental loops using neuroscience, psychology + imagination.
Greater Boston Area
Joined March 2015
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What if some of the things you’re most afraid of are only shadows?
Plato described this trap 2,400 years ago.
Here are 5 signs your anxious mind is trapped in Plato’s Cave: 👇
1. You keep getting pulled toward what hurts you.
Anxiety isn’t just in your head.
It’s stored in your nervous system.
Here are 8 body-based ways to release it--without meds. 🧵
1. Walk barefoot on grass for 5–7 minutes.
If your body is stuck in anxiety, you may need more than another technique to calm it.
My free email course, The Imaginal Path to Anxiety Release, shows you how to work with the deeper patterns keeping your nervous system stuck on high alert.
Start here ↓
offers.lorwenharrisnagle.com…
If someone you love is stuck in anxiety, send them this.
Follow @Lorwen108 for more insights on the journey to authenticity.
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5. You mistake a pattern for who you are.
• “I need control.”
• “I’m a people pleaser.”
• “I’m the responsible one.”
• “I’ve always been anxious.”
Repeat it long enough...
and the pattern starts to feel like “me.”
That’s the deepest trap:
The cave shapes your identity, not just how you see the world.
If you feel stuck in the same fears or patterns...
you may not need another answer.
You may need a different way of seeing your life.
That’s what we explore on my free Enlightenment Call.
Book your call here:
calendly.com/lorwen_consulti…
I know I should relax.
But I stay up til 2 AM, give my brain 14 new problems to solve, then blame my smartphone and tell myself I’m just a night owl.
I used to think it was anxiety.
After years of working with overthinkers, I started seeing this as something more than just “anxiety.”
5. Give your brain a way to process life that isn’t analysis.
Draw.
Make music.
Walk without your phone.
The analytical mind keeps asking:
“What’s the answer?”
Creativity asks:
“What's possible?”
Things loosen when you stop trying to solve them.
You do not need to get rid of your analytical mind.
You need to stop asking it to run your life 24 hours a day.
Some problems need thought.
Others need imagination.
If anxiety has trapped you in the analytical loop, try The Imaginal Path to Anxiety Release free ↓
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