How to Stop Obsessive Thinking About Your Ex: A Somatic Psychologist Explains

"Obsessive thinking is repetitive self-stimulation. It has movement in it — thought is a movement, it's an energy form." That's how somatic psychologist Annie Brook describes the loop so many of us get stuck in when life feels unsafe and unsolvable — the 3am replaying of a text from your ex, the imagined arguments you have in the shower, the same worry circling through your mind for the hundredth time. If you're navigating high-conflict divorce, co-parenting with someone who won'...