Anxiety is often treated as a thinking problem — racing thoughts, irrational beliefs, catastrophic predictions. So we try to fix it with insight: convincing ourselves the worry is unfounded, reframing the thought, applying logic. Sometimes that helps. But often it doesn't, and the reason is importan...

Most people treat anxiety as a thinking problem: too many thoughts, too fast, too overwhelming. But what looks like overthinking is often overfeeling that hasn't found contact. Anxiety becomes the dominant signal when an emotion is trying to surface and can't find language, safety, or space to land....