Shari B. Kaplan explains how sensory processing issues like dyslexia and auditory processing challenges can trigger overthinking. She recommends immediate tools like breathwork and grounding exercises to calm your nervous system, plus therapy approaches like EMDR and Internal Family Systems to address the root cause.
If you have some kind of processing problem like dyslexia or an auditory processing or an ocular motor or any other sensory processing problem, your brain might overthink for you. So mindfulness, journaling, breathwork, or some somatic grounding exercises can be helpful, like going outside and sticking your feet in grass, or as silly as this may sound, tree hugging can be very grounding. So therapy helps to uncover the root cause that's driving these patterns of overthinking. Using EMDR and Internal Family Systems and ego state work along with self-regulation tools is a great way to get to the underlying root cause.
