71 | Your Brain Isn't Reporting the Truth

You send a text. Hours pass. No reply.

Somewhere in that silence, your brain starts writing a story. “She’s upset with me. I did something wrong.”

You never asked it to. It just did.

In this episode, I explore the way our brains fill in gaps with information they don't actually have and present it to us as fact. From imagining what a stranger looks like before ever seeing a photo, to inventing what someone must be thinking about you after a fumbled sentence in a meeting, your mind is constantly filling in blanks and calling the result the truth.

This week, I offer a simple practice for catching the difference between what you know and what your brain made up, without turning it into another reason to be hard on yourself.

I share:

• Why your brain fills in gaps instead of sitting with the unknown
• How this shows up in your inner critic, and in what you assume others are thinking
• A simple question to ask yourself the next time a strong reaction hits before you have the facts

Questions to sit with this week: What do you know to be true? What did your brain just make up?

I'd love to hear what your brain fabricated this week. Send me a message or share it on socials. 

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