The Daily Casting Call: A Survival Guide

How to manage your internal reality show without losing your damn mind

The Daily Casting Call: A Survival Guide

(How to Manage Your Internal Reality Show Without Losing Your Damn Mind)

Picture this: You wake up Monday morning and there’s a full committee meeting happening in your consciousness. Seventeen different versions of you are arguing about whether to wear pants today.

Motivated Monday You is doing jumping jacks while holding a protein shake that tastes like grass clippings and false hope. Meanwhile, Cozy Hermit You is clutching yesterday’s coffee like a security blanket and seriously considering if sweatpants count as business casual in the year of our lord 2025.

Corporate Climber You already sent fourteen emails before 7am and color-coded her anxiety by priority level (red for “career-ending,” orange for “merely soul-crushing,” yellow for “can spiral about later”). Rebel Artist You is wondering why everyone else is conscious before the sun has properly apologized for existing.

And Overthinking You? She’s created a seventeen-slide PowerPoint presentat…