Thoughts in your head feel huge. Write them down and they shrink to fit a page.

Unwritten worries have no edges, so they expand to whatever size your attention allows and loop without reaching a conclusion. Putting them on paper forces them into specific sentences, and specific sentences turn out to be much smaller than the feeling that produced them. Half of what felt overwhelming becomes three items and two questions.

Take ten minutes tonight and write everything that is circling, unfiltered, without trying to organize it. Then read it back and mark which items you can actually act on. The rest can stay on the page instead of in your head.