Betsy Guerra describes how a parent's worry about a teen driver with a dead phone spirals into an imagined tragedy. She shows how our minds construct vivid false catastrophes that cause real suffering, and why questioning these mental movies matters.
How many of you have been calling your kids who are now driving? You don't know where they're at, and maybe the Life360 says that they were in the middle of the expressway, and immediately you're like, "Oh my goodness, they got in an accident!" And you try calling, and you call the friend, and you call everyone, and nobody's answering. And then you make all this tragedy movie in your head, make it up, and then it just turns out that in the middle of the highway, the phone had died, and that's why it was still showing it was there. How many times Do we create realities in our heads that make us feel a very uncomfortable way, and ultimately they're not true? Our thoughts are powerful.
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