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Why You Always Assume The Worst | Mid Week Tease

podcast April 29, 2026


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Have you ever had one small thing happen and within minutes your mind convinced you your whole life was about to fall apart? A delayed text becomes rejection. A difficult conversation becomes disaster. A money challenge becomes total collapse.

This week on The Mid Week Tease, Adelle unpacks catastrophizing, the mental habit of assuming the worst-case scenario, and why so many of us confuse fear with intuition. In this episode:

  • What catastrophizing actually is and why the mind does it
  • How anxiety can disguise itself as “being prepared”
  • The hidden ways worst-case thinking steals peace and joy
  • Signs your thoughts may be spiraling into imagined disaster
  • Psychology-backed ways to interrupt catastrophic thinking
  • How to separate fear from fact and uncertainty from doom

If your mind often runs ahead of reality, this episode is for you.
A reminder: An anxious thought is not a prophecy.

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