Donna Jackson Nakazawa

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472 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 2 Jul

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Good Life Project · When You Can't Stop Thinking About Something, Here's What To Do. | Donna Jackson Nakazawa · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

And...

And the answer will come.

But what a great deal of recent science shows us is that the answer never comes.

The relief never comes.

We lock down the areas of our brain that keep us from the kind of clarity and flow state and problem-solving and cognitive awareness and the light going off in our head that tells us, here's what I actually need to do about this situation.

Oh, studies show that we're all ruminating more than we ever have before.

And that's a problem because at the same time, one third of us don't really understand what the word rumination means or what it is.

And it's also linked to, it's the greatest pre-diagnostic factor to depression and anxiety.

And so here we are with a problem we all share.

We're doing it more than we ever have.

We don't talk about it because we're ashamed of it.

We're embarrassed of how easily we get sucked into our thoughts spiraling and our story spinning.

And yet you cannot solve a problem you have not named.

Yeah.

Yeah, I decided this is something that I, of all people, who literally my niche as a science writer is neuroscience, emotion, and mental health, right?

So I've written quite a few books.

And I thought, if I can't get those 30 years of yoga and meditation and research and figuring out, you know, all kinds of different areas of neuroscience and lecturing at universities and schools...

What am I missing?

And so I like to dig deep.

I'm very nerdy at the heart of my writing drive.

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