The guides
The guides
Guides for a mind that will not switch off: what the loop is made of, and one small thing to do about it tonight.
- How to practice stoicism daily, in the ten minutes you actually have
A plain-English daily stoic practice: one question in the moment, one page at night. What to do at work and in an argument, and what it looks like when it fails.
- Overthinking at night: why 2 a.m. makes it worse, and the ten minutes to run tonight
Your mind does no sorting at 2 a.m. Here is why overthinking is worse at night, what the loop is actually made of, and the ten-minute page to run tonight.
- Replaying conversations in your head: what the loop is and how to close it
Your brain treats a finished conversation as an open problem. Here is why the replay starts, what it is made of, and a three-line practice to close the file.
- Journaling for overthinking: what actually helps, and what keeps you up
Journaling for overthinking works when it is short and structured, and backfires when it sprawls. The difference, plus a four-line page to try tonight.
- The stoic journal template that ends the loop instead of describing it
A stoic journaling template that runs in ten minutes: principle, scene, three lines, one action, one check. With an example, 15 prompts and a printable PDF.
- Are stoics emotionless? No, and the difference matters tonight
Being emotionally stoic does not mean feeling nothing. Here is what the stoics said about emotion, and what it changes about the argument you replay.
- Stoic exercises for daily life: six that survive a real day, and three that quietly do not
Six stoic exercises for daily life, with the three famous ones that fail on a bad Tuesday named. What to run in the morning, mid-argument, and before bed.