When the world feels like it’s falling apart, your brain might need a new lens. Shift from threat mode to challenge mode—and watch your energy come back to life. Learn three ways to reframe your outlook, move out of threat mode, and tap into a more hopeful, energized version of yourself. Because when your future looks brighter, your present feels lighter.

What You’ll Learn

• Why your appraisal of the future affects your energy, health, and emotions now
• How zooming out with history can reframe today’s problems
• Why collecting stories of kindness fuels hope and resilience
• A mental trick to comfort yourself in hard times

Timestamps:
00:30 – The toll of threat mindset on body, energy, and mood
03:17 – Why the future you imagine shapes the present you live
06:07 – Strategy #1: Zooming out with history
12:46 – Strategy #2: Collecting stories of a global “army of good”
14:09 – Strategy #3: Letting your future self comfort your present self
16:51 – Kindness Narrative: A dirty, hungry man meets kind strangers

Submit Your Kindness Narrative:
Share a moment of kindness that moved you or changed you. Email your story (written or audio) to calmyourcaveman@gmail.com or DM me on Instagram @CalmYourCaveman.

For full shownotes, including resources mentioned, go to: https://www.calmyourcaveman.com/episodes/when-the-world-feels-doomed

Feeling stressed? What if the fastest way out was through your eyes? In this episode, I’ll teach you a quick 10-second exercise that uses your vision to flip bad stress into good stress. You’ll learn why when anxiety hits, your world shrinks -- your eyes go into tunnel vision and your mind locks into achieving awareness, obsessing over control and what you don’t have. But there’s another mode available. Awakened awareness—the mental counterpart to panoramic vision—that helps you regain perspective, spark insight, and stop anxiety from running the show. Discover how to toggle between these two modes so you can stay focused without getting stuck, and calm without losing your drive.

What You’ll Learn:

• The surprising link between your eyes and your emotions
• Why tunnel vision = fight-or-flight (and what that does to your brain)
• How panoramic vision cues safety and calm in just seconds
• The mental counterparts: achieving awareness vs. awakened awareness
• Practical ways to rebalance if you’re stuck in “overachieve and control” mode

Timestamps:
[00:30] Why your eyes might hold the key to stress relief
[04:23] The power of panoramic vision: a 10-second reset
[07:11] How vision influences emotion—and vice versa
[08:54] Beyond the eyes: achieving vs. awakened awareness
[13:31] Meditation, yoga, and everyday practices for awakened awareness
[16:18] My personal “Sabbath moments” for panoramic awareness
[19:56] Kindness narrative: getting lost, asking for help, and discovering generosity

Submit Your Kindness Narrative:
Share a moment of kindness that moved you or changed you. Email your story (written or audio) to calmyourcaveman@gmail.com or DM me on Instagram @CalmYourCaveman.

For full shownotes, including resources mentioned, go to: https://www.calmyourcaveman.com/episodes/how-to-see-more-and-stress-less

Anxiety tricks us into believing more thinking equals more control—but often, it just keeps us stuck. In this conversation, I talk with coach Jaime about how to reframe problems, why insights often show up when you stop overthinking, and how simple practices can help you access clarity.

What You’ll Learn
•How to spot when anxiety is just your thoughts talking
•The difference between a “problem” and a “puzzle”
•Why insights often show up in the shower
•How focus mode and diffused mode work in the brain
•Simple practices to quiet your mind and spark clarity

Timestamps:
[00:30] Introduction to Jaime Schettini
[02:00] Seeing thought as thought (not reality)
[05:56] Problems vs. puzzles: shifting perspective to ease fear
[07:19] Trusting the Insight Process
[11:27] Focus mode vs. diffused mode: where breakthroughs really happen
[15:22] Practical Tips for Entering the Diffused Mode
[19:38] Kindness Narrative: Saved from drowning by a stranger

Submit Your Kindness Narrative:
Share a moment of kindness that moved you or changed you. Email your story (written or audio) to calmyourcaveman@gmail.com or DM me on Instagram @CalmYourCaveman.

For full shownotes, including resources mentioned, go to: https://www.calmyourcaveman.com/episodes/the-overthinking-trap-with-jaime-schettini