Laura 🫶🏻’s Reviews > Chatter: The Voice in Our Head and How to Harness It > Status Update

Just read the chapter on our environment. It covered the positive effects of nature 🍃, awe-inspiring experiences, and creating order within our surroundings (this one reminded me of people who clean when they’re stressed 🤣). This chapter definitely felt relatable and very applicable to real life. It’s cool to see scientific findings for all these things that we inherently know from all the studies.

- Seeking support of different people for different emotional situations
- Supporting others with a mixture of empathy and problem-solving
- Too much tending to emotional needs can lead to co-rumination which feeds chatter

It’s making me realise I already know a lot of distancing techniques to reduce ‘chatter’, yet like the author (and probably everyone at some points) I can’t always get out of my head.
Some things the book reminded me of as well as taught me:
- ‘Fly on the wall’ perspective (looking at my personal situation from a bystander perspective)
- Temporal distancing (How will I feel about this in the future?)