11/26/2025
Catastrophizing looks dramatic on the outside, but on the inside it is usually fear, survival mode, and old patterns trying to protect you.
When I work with clients, I always start with, “Give me two words to ground us today.”
Those two words tell me how your mind and body have been trying to move through the week.
Here’s the thing I tell people often:
Your feelings are valid, but feelings are not facts.
Catastrophizing happens when your mind tries to fill in the blanks with the worst case scenario because it has learned that preparing for the worst feels safer than being disappointed.
This is not about being “too emotional” or “overreacting.”
This is your nervous system saying, “I don’t feel safe yet.”
Catastrophizing can look like:
• Jumping ahead to disaster when nothing has happened.
• Bracing for rejection before you even get close to someone.
• Expecting something to fall apart the moment it feels good.
• Feeling helpless, so you never try because you’re already preparing for failure.
• Creating conflict to avoid slowing down and looking inward.
None of this makes you weak.
It means you’ve been surviving for a long time.
The work we do at I GotUCorp is teaching your system a new way to respond…
Not by judging yourself, not by shaming your emotions, but by slowing down enough to hear the story underneath the reaction.
I help clients separate:
• what’s actually happening
• from what their inner child fears will happen
• so you can operate from your adult self instead of survival mode
You don’t have to keep bracing for impact every day.
You can learn to feel safe inside your own body again.
No worries. You do not have to fight your mind, you just have to guide it. IGU💯🫶🏾. Vincente
