Lorwen Harris Nagle, PhD ✓
@LORWEN108 · Greater Boston Area · joined 02 Mar 2015
Harvard-trained psychologist I help chronic overthinkers quiet the mental loops using neuroscience, psychology + imagination.
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If I wanted to accidentally train my brain to wake me at 3AM every night, here’s exactly what I’d do:
1. Wake at 3AM and spend 25 minutes letting my brain fully switch on. https://t.co/UdbPL0DnMU
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@LORWEN108 Sinclair’s right that isolation is brutal, but in my opinion, the deeper point is quality over quantity. One solid relationship beats a hundred shallow ones.
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If you found this post interesting, follow me @lorwen108
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Your mind can create a world your body has to live in.
If you’re ready to change that, book a free Enlightenment Call and see if my ART Community is the right fit for you.
Book here: https://t.co/6bCIyJWy9M
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7. You live through painful futures that never arrive.
And while thinking this way, your body lives inside these futures.
Your jaw tightens.
Breathing changes.
Stomach contracts.
Sleep gets disrupted.
Your imagined world becomes your physical world.
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6. You privately scan yourself for signs that something is wrong.
Your heartbeat.
Your breathing.
Your memory.
Your mood.
Your relationships.
The more intensely you search for danger, the easier danger becomes to find.
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5. You second-guess decisions after you've already made them.
You choose.
Then reopen the decision.
Then question it again.
Eventually even small choices can begin to feel dangerous because your brain never receives the message:
It's finished.
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4. You imagine something going wrong before it happens.
Nothing has happened yet.
But your threat system responds to the possibility as though it were already real.
So you cancel.
Delay.
Pull back.
The imagined danger slowly reduces the size of your real life.
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3. You try to read other people’s minds.
Why haven’t they answered?
Are they angry?
Did I say something wrong?
The analytical mind fills missing information with possibilities—and your nervous system responds to the story you create.
Eventually you stop asking, stop reaching
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If you recognize yourself in this, the problem may not be that you “think too much.”
It may be a protection pattern you learned that protects you
around uncertainty, rejection, and connection.
Find out what protection pattern you use to isolate:
https://t.co/XLNKYraZzy
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2. You rehearse conversations you may never have.
You explain yourself.
Defend yourself.
Predict their reaction.
You prepare for conversations instead of having them.
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What you said.
What they meant.
What you should have said instead.
The conversation ended hours ago.
But your body is still living through it.
And the longer you stay inside your head, the more isolated you become from your actual life.
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Harvard's David Sinclair says the #1 predictor of longevity isn’t diet or exercise.
It’s loneliness.
And these 7 habits quietly make you lonelier:
1. You replay conversations that are already over. https://t.co/0cFFR99Hxp
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If I wanted to wake up at 3AM with a fired brain, here’s exactly what I’d do:
1. Take my phone to bed every night. https://t.co/nkmRjFj5LI
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Cortisol isn’t the fire.
It’s the smoke.
The fire is your brain stuck on high alert.
6 ways to shift from high alert to glow-up:
1. Warm water before caffeine. https://t.co/pMhdzY8Vql
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@LORWEN108 A lot changes when you stop mentally living through things that haven’t happened.
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Your brain is constantly being shaped by what you repeat, rehearse and pay attention to.
On August 25th at 6:30 PM ET, I’m teaching a free LIVE webinar on how to access your creative processing system—and begin giving your brain a different experience to build from.
So you stop
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7. Create something instead of analyzing everything.
Draw.
Write.
Make music.
You give the brain a completely different way to process your world.
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6. Move your body differently.
Stand taller.
Walk slower.
Unclench your jaw.
Breathe more quietly.
Your brain is constantly reading your body for clues about what is happening.
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5. Change what you pay attention to.
Your brain strengthens what you repeatedly notice.
Look deliberately for:
Safety.
Possibility.
Beauty.
Progress.
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4. Picture the outcome you actually want.
Your brain rehearses imagined experiences too.
Spend 60 seconds seeing yourself calm, capable and already through it.
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3. Give your brain new evidence.
Do one small thing you’ve been avoiding.
Action teaches your nervous system:
“I am not trapped.”
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Catastrophic thinking is not a personality trait.
It is a pattern your brain has learned to fire again and again.
The more often you rehearse danger, the easier that pathway becomes to repeat.
On August 25th at 6:30 PM ET, I’m teaching a free LIVE webinar on how to interrupt
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2. Change the sentence you repeat most.
Your brain listens to repetition.
Replace:
“I can’t handle this.”
with:
“I’ve handled hard things before.”
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Every time you replay the worst-case scenario, you strengthen that pathway.
Interrupt it with:
“What else could be true?”
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This is a neuron.
It doesn’t know fear.
It doesn’t know lack.
It just repeats what you tell it.
Here are 7 ways to retrain it—
before chronic stress overactivates your amygdala and tanks your libido:
1. Stop rehearsing disaster. https://t.co/z28yrxuzso
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Against accounts of the same size
26 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.
Median views25 394this account1 010median for 10K–100K
Reach, %26.04%this account3.46%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.39%this account1.79%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 25 394 | 1 010 | 25.1× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 26.04% | 3.46% | 7.52× |
| Engagement rate | 0.39% | 1.79% | 0.22× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
26.9K8 Sep
430.8K9 Sep
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26.9K10 Sep
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.36%8 Sep
0.27%9 Sep
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0.35%10 Sep
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.79%.
What the audience does
Likes45.9%3 906 in total
Reposts5.6%480 in total
Replies1.2%102 in total
Bookmarks47.3%4 022 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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