Everyone told me to meditate.
Wellness posts. Well-meaning friends. The app that kept sending me push notifications about "finding my calm." So I tried. I sat down, closed my eyes, and lasted about 45 seconds before my brain started replaying something I said in 2019.
Then I felt worse. Because now I wasn't just anxious... I was anxious and bad at meditating.
If that's you, I want you to know something first. It's not a willpower problem. It's not a flaw. Some brains, especially overthinking, neurodivergent, always-on brains, need a different door in.
That's why I made Anxiety Interrupt.
The moment I stopped trying to "calm down"
I'm a single mom, a designer, and a neurodivergent woman who has spent a lot of years in her own head. For a long time I thought the goal was to make my thoughts stop.
That goal kept failing me.
What finally helped was a different question. Not "how do I make this go away?" but "how do I interrupt it, just long enough to get my feet back under me?"
So I started researching my own nervous system. Out of desperation, honestly. I collected small techniques that worked in real life: in the car, at 2am, in the bathroom at work with my heart pounding. I kept the ones that worked in two minutes or less. I threw out everything that required me to already be calm.
Those notes became a guide.
What's inside Anxiety Interrupt
Anxiety Interrupt is a 40-page mindfulness guide for overthinkers, spiraling minds and anxious bodies. You don't read it in order. You go straight to the chapter that matches what's happening right now.
It's built around four resets:
The Worst-Case Spiral Reset. For when your brain jumps from "they didn't text back" to the worst possible ending in under a minute.
The Conversation Replay Loop Reset. For when you've replayed the same conversation six times today and you're still editing what you should have said.
The "I Can't Meditate" Reset. Four anchors for brains that won't sit still: movement, a visual breathing pattern, a one-word mantra, and cold water.
The Physical Symptom Reset. For when anxiety shows up in your body before your mind catches up. Tight chest. Racing heart. That low hum of dread before your first cup of coffee.
Every chapter explains why that kind of spiral happens, because understanding your brain short-circuits the shame. Then it gives you two or three techniques you can use in two minutes or less. Each chapter ends with a Reset Card you can screenshot and keep on your phone.
There's also a one-page quick reference with all four resets, plus a chapter on building your own personal interrupt protocol.
What it isn't
I'm not a therapist, and this isn't therapy.
Sometimes anxiety is rooted in something real and heavy, and a two-minute technique can't do that deeper work. The guide has a whole section on what to do when nothing works, and when it's time to reach for more support. Using a tool like this alongside professional care isn't a contradiction. It's a both/and.
What Anxiety Interrupt can do is lower the volume. Create a little space. Help you get through the meeting, the school pickup, the night when sleep won't come.
Want to go deeper? The Bonus Pack
Knowing a technique and actually reaching for it mid-spiral are two different things. So I made a Bonus Pack to help the resets stick:
4 printables: a 2-Minute Reset Menu, a wallet-sized Pocket Card, a 30-Day Reset Tracker, and a Spiral Symptom Map
3 worksheets: Decode Your Spiral, The Conversation Replay Audit, and Build Your Personal Protocol
2 word-for-word scripts: a Spiral Break Script and a Physical Symptom Calm Script, for when your own words won't come
Get Anxiety Interrupt
You can start with the guide on its own, or get the whole system together.
Anxiety Interrupt Core Guide ($12): the 40-page guide with all four resets
Anxiety Interrupt Full Bundle ($27): the guide plus the complete Bonus Pack
You picked up this post because something in the title recognized you. Maybe you've been in your head so long it started to feel like home.
You're not someone who gives up on yourself. You just haven't found tools built for the way your brain works yet.
These might be them. 🦉
Anxiety Interrupt is for educational and self-help purposes and is not a substitute for professional mental health care. If you are in crisis, call or text 988 in the US.
