When Your Mind Turns Everything Into a Disaster (Catastrophizing Explained)

Catastrophizing is one of the quietest — and most exhausting — thinking patterns behind anxiety, overwhelm, and eventually depression.

It’s what happens when your mind takes a small event and turns it into a disaster story, convincing your body that danger is already here — even when nothing has actually happened.

In this video, Kelly Reyes explains:

What catastrophizing really is (and why it’s not a personal flaw)

How the brain confuses imagination with reality

What neuroscience and research say about anxiety, threat detection, and stress

Why reassurance doesn’t work when your nervous system is activated

How chronic catastrophizing leads to emotional exhaustion and hopelessness

Practical, evidence-based skills to interrupt the spiral in real time

You’ll also see a realistic example of how catastrophizing plays out in everyday life — and why labeling the thought, separating possibility from probability, and returning to the present moment can calm both your mind and your nervous system.

This is not therapy or diagnosis.
It’s a coaching-based, psychology-informed approach to awareness and skill-building that helps you stop suffering in advance.

At the end of the video, Kelly shares her personal faith perspective for those who find grounding in spirituality — while keeping the tools accessible and effective for everyone, regardless of belief.

About Kelly Reyes

Kelly Reyes is a certified life and mental health coach who works with individuals struggling with anxiety, overthinking, emotional regulation, and cognitive patterns like catastrophizing that keep them stuck. Her work blends psychology, neuroscience, and grounded presence to help people lead their thoughts instead of being led by them.

If your mind constantly jumps to worst-case scenarios, nothing is wrong with you.
Your brain learned a survival habit — and what the brain learns, it can unlearn.

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Peace doesn’t come from predicting the future.
It comes from being present now.