SAGE & SASS

SAGE & SASS

Hacking the Loop: When Your Mind Takes You Hostage (A Survival Guide)

Why your mind keeps replaying the same story, and the body-based ritual that ends it

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Dea Devidas
Nov 13, 2025
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Come here, sweetheart. Closer. Let’s talk about mental loops, those psychic washing machines that grab you by the consciousness and spin you like a cosmic sock on existential high heat.

You know the ones. Your brain doesn’t politely ask, “Shall we revisit that cringe memory from 2017?” No.

It tackles you like a drunk angel doing parkour, seductively grabbing your awareness by the jaw and cooing: “Hey babe, what if we obsess about microscopic nonsense until the sun explodes?”

And your nervous system, absolute clown that it is, whispers back: “Oh absolutely, let’s ruin the entire vibe.”

Welcome to the mental equivalent of autoplay hell, where your consciousness is the hostage and your amygdala is the worst negotiator ever hired.🎪

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