Look at this picture. See the white triangle? There's no triangle. Your brain built it out of gaps, because brains fill things in. They do exactly the same with worries. "Everyone will laugh." "I'll definitely fail." Those feel like facts, but they're predictions, brain-built, and often wrong. Here's a move that sounds ridiculous and is backed by actual research: take the worry and say it in a squeaky voice. Sing it like a bad pop song. Type it below and try the buttons. When a thought becomes a cartoon, it loses its grip on you. You're not deleting the thought. You're just refusing to treat it as breaking news.
What do you see? There's no triangle. Your brain built it out of gaps, because brains fill things in. They do the same with worries: thoughts can pop up that feel scary, but that doesn't mean they're true.
Type a worry, then shrink it 
A thought only has as much power as you give it. Try saying your worry in a squeaky voice, or singing it like a bad pop song. It's like turning a monster into a cartoon: suddenly it's not so frightening.
This space isn't saved anywhere, it's just for getting it out.
The Science
Squeaky voices? Really?
