How To Stop Overthinking And Find Calm - by Rebecca Reay

COURSE

How To Stop Overthinking And Find Calm

With Rebecca Reay

This course offers gentle mindfulness practices to support you when your mind feels busy and overactive. Rather than trying to stop thoughts or control your thinking, you’ll be guided to slow down, reconnect with your body, and create space for calm to return naturally. Each audio lesson provides a steady, supportive pause where you can settle the nervous system, soften mental effort, and experience moments of clarity and ease.


Meet your Teacher

Becca is a mindfulness teacher who supports people in reconnecting with their body, breath, and inner steadiness. Her teaching focuses on gentle, accessible practices that help calm the nervous system and bring awareness out of the mind and back into the body. With a grounded and compassionate style, she creates safe, supportive spaces for people to pause, settle, and find calm without pressure. Becca’s work is shaped by lived experience and a deep understanding of how mindfulness can support emotional wellbeing and everyday balance.

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8 Days

12 students

No ratings

8 min / day

Presence

English


Lesson 1

When The Mind Feels Too Full

This opening lesson explores why overthinking happens and how imagining future scenarios becomes a protective habit when life feels overwhelming. With warmth and compassion, you’ll learn how a crowded mind affects your emotional and physical well-being, and you’ll be guided through a gentle grounding practice to help you settle the inner noise and reconnect with yourself.

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Lesson 2

Signs You’re Holding Too Much

This lesson helps you recognise the quiet but powerful signs that you’re carrying too much mentally and emotionally. Through vulnerability and gentle awareness, you’ll learn how overthinking, irritability, imagined scenarios, and emotional shifts are signals from your body and mind. A simple grounding practice helps you begin noticing these signs with compassion.

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Lesson 3

The Pressure To Carry Everything

This lesson explores the invisible pressure to manage everything on your own, a pressure that fuels overthinking, emotional strain, and exhaustion. Through gentle reflection and lived experience, you’ll learn how carrying life alone affects your mind and body, and you’ll be guided through a soft practice to begin releasing this inner burden.

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Lesson 4

When Overthinking Becomes Emotional Exhaustion

This lesson explores the emotional exhaustion that arises when overthinking builds for too long. It shows up as irritability, sensitivity, tearfulness, and a sense of losing yourself. With compassion and lived experience, you’ll learn why these emotional shifts happen and how to meet them gently. A grounding practice helps you reconnect with yourself and soften the weight of overwhelm.

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Lesson 5

Coming Back Into The Body

This lesson guides you back into your body as a way to interrupt spiralling thoughts and emotional overwhelm. Through compassion, vulnerability, and gentle awareness, you’ll learn why the body is the safest anchor for a busy mind. A grounding practice helps you reconnect with your breath, release tension, and return to yourself with softness.

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Lesson 6

Softening The Noise, Slowing The Rush

This lesson explores why your thoughts speed up during overwhelm and how the mind tries to protect you by preparing for every possible outcome. Through gentle awareness and a soft breathing practice, you’ll learn how to slow the internal rush without force, creating more space and steadiness inside.

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Lesson 7

Creating Space For Clarity And Fresh Ideas

This lesson explores how clarity arises naturally when the mind softens and internal space is created. Through gentle awareness and breath practices, you’ll learn why clarity has felt out of reach and how it begins to return when you are no longer living in imagined futures. This session reconnects you with your intuition, trust, and inner steadiness.

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Lesson 8

Returning To Yourself With Compassion

This final lesson guides you back to your true self with compassion and gentleness. You’ll explore how overwhelm can pull you away from who you are, and how slowing down, softening, and listening inward helps you reconnect. Through a heartfelt grounding practice, you’ll begin to rebuild trust in your own inner wisdom and return to yourself with kindness.

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