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

You know, you leave a lunch and you're like, well, I kind of didn't feel right.

Something went sideways.

Like, what are they saying about me?

All of that is happening in the default mode network.

And it's really three areas of the brain, one area in the front, one in the side, and one in the back.

And one area gives rise to mental images, which emerge with our ruminations.

One gives rise to our intense emotions, and one gives rise to our physical sensations.

So he was looking at these three different areas and telling me basically that these areas of my brain, when they became hyper-primed, and this is true for all of us, and caught story spinning, I couldn't toggle back out into my creative thought

which I feel healthy and sane and alive and involved in my work.

And that is true for all of us, because when we're thought spiraling, replaying the past, spinning into the future, caught in self-referential thought, guess what?

The default mode network goes into lockdown.

It is a closed circuit.

We do not have good skills to get out of.

And it's happening to all of us.

But I also want people to understand this is so important, Jonathan.

It is, you know, this, there is nothing wrong with you.

If you are listening to this and you're thinking, oh, my God, I, you know, I'm listening to this podcast.

This is me.

I totally relate.

But gosh, you know, what's wrong with me?

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