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The Overthinking Trap: Why Your Best Decisions Live Below Your Neck

(Or: How to Stop Spiraling and Start Trusting the Intelligence That Doesn't Need a Pros-and-Cons List)

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Dea Devidas
Aug 11, 2025
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Why Getting Low Is the Nervous System Hack Nobody’s Teaching

(Or: How Your Overthinking Brain Lost the Plot and Your Pelvis Knew the Answer All Along)

Your life currently feels like trying to stream Netflix on dial-up internet while your WiFi router has an existential crisis and your browser has 847 tabs open, 12 of which are playing audio you can’t locate. You’re standing on Mount Important Decision™ like some kind of anxious CEO of your own existence, treating every choice like you’re defusing a bomb while someone’s mother-in-law gives instructions from the passenger seat.

Your nervous system has been living in your head for so long it forgot it has a body attached. Forgot that below the neck exists an entire universe of intelligence that doesn’t need to think to know. Your pelvis holds answers your prefrontal cortex will spend seventeen therapy sessions trying to articulate.

Meanwhile you’re up there in the stratosphere of seriousness, choosing between video game characters labeled “An…

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