When I Stopped Fixing My Mindset and Started Listening

We often discuss mindset—how to shift it, improve it, or upgrade it.

But recently, in a circle of interior designers and creative women, we tried something else:

We stopped trying to fix our thoughts and started listening to them instead.

Before the session, I had a panic attack.

It came out of nowhere—just a typical morning, walking my dog, and suddenly I couldn’t breathe. My heart was racing. A wave of dread moved through me, and I didn’t even know why. I had just read an email.

My first instinct was to push it away, to figure it out, to get out of it. But instead, I remembered what I would soon be guiding others to do.

So I stopped.

And I stayed with it.

Not to analyze it. Not to fix it. To be with the sensation.

And slowly… it shifted. Not because I changed my thoughts.

But because I was willing to feel what was there, without judgment.

That’s the space we created in the session.

We asked:

What thought do you wish would go away?

What emotion do you avoid?

What if you stopped the battle with it, and just let it be?