A psychiatrist's guide to quieting an overactive mind — for the people who are functioning, managing, getting through their days, but exhausted by their own thinking.
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Most people who struggle with overthinking already understand what's happening. The problem isn't insight. It's that insight alone doesn't stop the loop.
Stop the Loop is built on one core premise: overthinking isn't a thinking problem — it's a pattern problem. And patterns, unlike personality, can change. Written by a board certified psychiatrist drawing from real clinical experience, this book gives you the tools that actually work, explained in a way that makes sense of why they work.
"I'm not anxious. I'm just always preparing."
The sentence that became Chapter 2"I know I'm overthinking. I just can't stop."
Said by almost every patient. Chapter 4 answers it."Nothing is really wrong. I'm just tired of thinking all the time."
The sentence that started this book.You replay conversations, rehearse scenarios, and second-guess decisions long after they're made. You know you're in a loop. You can't find the exit.
You're capable, thorough, and good at what you do. The same qualities that make you successful are the ones keeping you up at night, still working.
Nothing is technically wrong. You just can't turn your brain off. You're not in crisis — you're just tired of thinking all the time. That's exactly enough reason to be here.
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I didn't write this book because I had everything figured out. I wrote it because I kept sitting across from people who were exhausted in a very specific way — and I kept wishing I could give them something to carry with them between sessions.
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It didn't come to me all at once. It arrived in fragments, across years of practice. I started noticing a particular kind of patient — outwardly functioning, often successful by any visible measure, but describing something that didn't fit neatly into the language we usually use for mental health struggles.
"Nothing is really wrong. I'm just tired of thinking all the time."
That sentence stayed with me. Because it named something I'd been watching for years without having the right words for it. Not anxiety in the clinical sense. Not depression. Something quieter, more chronic, and often completely invisible to everyone except the person living inside it.
What struck me most was how widespread it was. Across professions, personalities, ages, circumstances. High performers and caregivers and students and parents — people with very different lives, caught in the same essential trap: using thought as a way to gain control, and finding themselves more trapped the harder they tried.
During training, you're taught to look for what's acute — what's urgent, what meets a diagnostic threshold. But over time I became increasingly aware of how many people were suffering in a register that didn't always show up clearly in a clinical assessment. It was subtler than that. Quieter, more chronic, and often completely invisible to everyone except the person living inside it.
There's a personal dimension to this that I want to be honest about. Psychiatric training cultivates a particular kind of mental vigilance. You learn to anticipate, to analyze, to hold multiple possibilities at once and stay several steps ahead. It's a skill the work genuinely requires. But skills don't come with an off switch — and I came to understand, from the inside, how easily a well-trained mind becomes an overactive one.
I wrote this book because I kept encountering the same pattern, year after year, and because I felt a growing frustration that we weren't giving people what they actually needed. Not more insight. Not more analysis. Real, practical tools to step out of the loop.
This isn't only a clinical problem. It's a human one. And it deserved a book that treated it that way.
A board certified psychiatrist bringing clinical depth and genuine warmth to conversations about overthinking, high-functioning burnout, and the minds that never fully clock out.
Every talk draws directly from clinical practice — the patterns, the insights, and the tools that have emerged from thousands of hours sitting across from people who are exhausted by their own thinking. Customized for your audience and event format.
The clinical explanation for overthinking that no one has given your audience before. Why preparation becomes a trap, what's actually happening in the brain, and the three tools that change it. Audiences consistently report this as the talk that explained something they've been living with for years.
45 – 60 min · Keynote or breakout · Q&A availableDesigned specifically for high-achieving professional audiences. Addresses the specific form of burnout that doesn't look like burnout from the outside — the leader who performs brilliantly and recovers from work by working. Practical, clinically grounded, immediately applicable.
45 – 90 min · Corporate wellness · Leadership retreatsA clinical and deeply human exploration of the gap between what people present and what they're actually experiencing. Designed for healthcare professionals, therapists, counselors, and medical audiences. Grand rounds format available.
45 – 60 min · Clinical audiences · Grand roundsAn interactive workshop format where participants learn and practice the core tools from Stop the Loop. Cognitive defusion, the worry window, Name-Breathe-Return, and the daily reset practice. Leaves every participant with an immediately usable toolkit.
90 min – 3 hrs · Workshop · Includes workbook materialsAddresses the specific intersection of high achievement, people-pleasing patterns, and chronic overthinking that disproportionately affects high-performing women. Warm, personal, and grounded in clinical reality.
45 – 60 min · Women's conferences · Professional associationsAll five books in the Stop the Loop series represent distinct speaking topics — perfectionism, burnout, people-pleasing, relationship anxiety. Custom talks can be developed for specific organizational needs, conference themes, or audience demographics.
Any format · Custom length · Contact for detailsFortune 500 companies, EAP programs, HR leadership conferences, executive retreats
Hospital grand rounds, medical associations, nursing conferences, therapist networks
Medical schools, psychology departments, student wellness programs, faculty development
Professional women's associations, women in leadership conferences, ERGs
Author events, bookstore appearances, library programs, literary festivals
Mental health conferences, self-improvement summits, TEDx events, wellness retreats
A call to understand your audience, event goals, and specific themes to address.
Every talk is adapted to the specific audience — their industry, their challenges, their terminology.
Every participant leaves with the core tools in a printed or digital reference they can use immediately.
Misty takes questions directly — the clinical depth of her answers is consistently the most memorable part.
Stop the Loop available for purchase and signing at the event. Bulk orders at a discount.
Attendees receive access to the free 5-Minute Daily Reset and the What Patients Say YouTube channel.
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