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Liv Kissper March 19, 2026

What Is High-Functioning Anxiety Actually Like to Live With

High-functioning anxiety is what it looks like when panic gets a job, a calendar, and decent manners. On the outside, things work: emails get answered, deadlines get hit, and people describe you as capable, reliable, impressive. On the inside, it’s ...

Liv Kissper March 19, 2026

Overthinking and Feeling Stuck (Aka Why Smart People Are Screwed Longer)

Overthinking and feeling stuck is what happens when a nervous system puts on a productivity costume and starts doing interpretive dance instead of moving. We’re not frozen. We’re busy. Busy thinking, busy preparing, busy “working through it.” Tabs o...

Liv Kissper February 10, 2026

Why Do You Feel Worse After Starting Meditation? From Meditation Scam, Mindfulness Manipulation, Spiritual Narcissism & Sexual Abuse to Real Freedom

You were supposed to be unshakable by now—calm in the chaos, steady when life throws its worst at you. But instead, it’s a gamble. Some days, you’re zen. Others? A mess. And when you really need it—when the pressure’s on, when everything’s falling a...

Liv Kissper January 23, 2026

Make Overthinking Life Decisions Useless: The Procedural Game

The self-identity loves to play the Management Game - keeping us in Overthinking life decisions, resentment and exhaustion by maintaining a life that we actually don’t want. But there is another game that’s available - the Procedural Game - and it c...

Liv Kissper January 15, 2026

Can Self-improvement Kill Desire? Enter the Procedural Game

People like to frame life as surviving versus thriving. Surviving is obviously bad. Thriving is obviously good. Thriving sounds clean and aspirational and grown-up. It quietly suggests that you should be improving, expanding, deepening, working...

December 17, 2025

Thinking Instead of Acting? Why Taking Action Sometimes Makes Overthinking Worse

They say overthinking is what happens when you’re thinking instead of acting. Just do it. Send the message. Quit the job. Say the thing. Take the step. Relief awaits on the other side, apparently. But there’s a moment almost no one talks about, even...

Liv Kissper November 11, 2025

What Is Overthinking, Actually? And Why It Survives Every Solution

For a long time, I thought overthinking meant I was broken in some subtle, embarrassing way. Like everyone else had received a manual for how to live, and I was the only one compulsively rereading the same page, convinced I was missing something obv...

Liv Kissper October 14, 2025

Wanting Illusion: How To Find Direction In Life Without Losing Yourself To Identity, Fantasy, Or Fear

When I sit with people one-on-one and ask a very simple question— “What do you really want?” most of them don’t know. Not in a dramatic way. Not like they’re lost or broken. More like… the question doesn’t land anywhere. They answer with concepts. F...

Overthinking life's questions inside of elephant

Liv Kissper September 27, 2025

Why Do I Overthink Everything When Nothing is Wrong with Me?

Why do I overthink everything when my life is objectively fine? I’m not failing, spiraling, or incapable—I function, I decide things all day, I handle responsibility, complexity, pressure. And yet the moment something could matter—a choice that migh...

You’re Not Overthinking. You’re Avoiding a Desire

Overthinking isn’t confusion.

It’s a delay tactic.

Something in you wants to move.

Wanting Illusion

The book is for intelligent overthinkers who are tired of waiting for clarity before moving.

It points to a kind of Radical Aliveness where desire stops being managed and starts feeling dangerous, alive, and real again.

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